United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 87
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXXXVII.—An Act authorizing the location of certain school lands in the state of Indiana.
The register at Brookville authorized to select school lands, &c.
The register at Terre Haute authorized to select school lands.
The registers, in their selections, to be confined to section No. 20.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the register of the land office at Brookville be, and he is hereby, authorized to select school lands within the said district, equivalent to the one thirty-sixth part of the reservation commonly called Clark’s Grant, for the use of schools within the same; and the register of the land office at Terre Haute is hereby in like manner authorized to select within his district school lands, which, together with the eleven sections already selected, shall be equivalent to the one thirty-sixth part of the Vincennes donation tract, for the use of schools within said tract. It shall be the duty of the registers aforesaid, in making such selections, to be confined to section numbered twenty, in each township, and the selection so made shall be reserved from sale.
Approved, May 7, 1822.