United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 8
Chap. VIII.—An Act to authorize the Governors of the States of Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri to cause to be selected the lands therein mentioned.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The 8th sec. of act 4th Sept. 1841, ch. 16, modified. That so much of the eighth section of the act entitled “An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sale of the public lands, and to grant pre-emptions,” approved September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, as provides that the selection of the grants of land made to the several States, therein mentioned, for the purposes of internal improvement, shall be made, respectively, in such manner as the Legislatures thereof shall direct, is so far modified as to authorize the Governors of the States of Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri to cause the selections to be made for those States without the necessity of convening the Legislatures thereof for that purpose.
Approved, March 19, 1842.