Chapter XCII. *to surrender to the State of Tennessee all Title the United States have to Lands in Tennessee, south and west of the Line commonly called the Congressional Reservation Line, and to release to said State the Proceeds of such of said Lands us may have been, sold by the State of Tennessee, as the Agen
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Chap. XCII.— An Act *to surrender to the State of Tennessee all Title the United States have to Lands in Tennessee, south and west of the Line commonly called the Congressional Reservation Line, and to release to said State the Proceeds of such of said Lands us may have been, sold by the State of Tennessee, as the Agent of the United States.* Aug. 7, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *All unappropriated land of the U.S. in Tennessee, south and west of the Congressional reservation line, released to said State, with the proceeds of such as have been sold.That the United States hereby release and surrender to the State of Tennessee the right and title of the United States to all lands in the State of Tennessee, lying south and west of the Congressional reservation line in said State, which may yet remain unappropriated, and further release and transfer to said State of Tennessee the proceeds of such of said lands as may have been sold by said State, not heretofore pair! over to the United States, nor deposited subject to the order or use of the United States, under the authority of the act of Congress of the eighteenth 1811, ch. 7.February, eighteen hundred and forty-one, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue Grants and perfect Titles to certain Lands therein described, and to settle the Claims to the vacant and unappropriated Lands within the same,’ passed the eighteenth Day of April, one thousand eight Said State to apply $10,000 of the proceeds of said lands for a college.hundred and six.
” This surrender and transfer is upon the express condition that the State of Tennessee shall, out of the proceeds of said lands, set apart and apply forty thousand dollars towards the establishment and support of a college at Jackson, in the county of TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 94. 1846.67Madison, in the State of Tennessee, if the proceeds of the sales of said lands shall amount to so much; and if the aggregate amount of said sales (not paid over nor deposited as aforesaid) shall not amount to the said sum, then whatever sum smaller than forty thousand dollars they may amount to, in accordance with the provisions contained in an act of the General Assembly of said State, passed in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, being chapter one hundred and seven, section eight, and in accordance with the desire expressed by said General Assembly, in their certain memorial to Congress, passed December four, eighteen hundred and forty-five: *Provided, nevertheless, *That the release herein provided for to the said State of Tennessee ofSuch release to be in satisfaction for services and expenses of Tennessee. said lands shall be in full satisfaction for any and all services rendered and expenses incurred by said State, or the authorities thereof, in the management, disposal, or administration, of said public lands, and as agent or agents of the United States, in virtue of the provisions of the act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue Grants and perfect Titles to1841, ch. 7. certain Lands therein described, and to settle the Claims to the vacant and unappropriated Lands within the same,’ passed the eighteenth February, eighteen hundred and forty-one: *And provided also,* That all the said lands the release of which is herein provided for, and the proceeds thereof, shall be and remain subject to all the same claims, incumbrances, and liabilities, in relation to “North Carolina landSaid lands to remain subject to certain claims. warrants,” or other claims of North Carolina, as the same would or could be subject to as regards the United States, if the same were not so as aforesaid released.
Approved, August 7, 1846.