United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 53
Chap. LIII.—An Act concerning a seminary of learning in the territory of Arkansas.
Secretary of the Treasury to set apart a certain quantity of land, out of the public lands, for the use of an university.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to set apart and reserve from sale, out of any of the public lands within the territory of Arkansas, to which the Indian title has been, or may be, extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land not exceeding two entire townships, for the use and support of an university within the said territory and for no other use or purpose whatsoever; to be located in tracts of land not less than an entire section, corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed, one of which said townships, so set apart and reserved from sale, shall be in lieu of an entire township of land directed to be located on the waters of the Arkansas river in said territory, for the use of a seminary of learning therein, by an act of Congress, entitled1818, ch. 12. “An act making provision for the establishment of additional land offices in the territory of Missouri,” approved February the seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Approved, March 2, 1827.