June 16, 1848.
1841, ch. 16.
Chap. LXVII. — An Act to amend the Act entitled "An Act to appropriate the Proceeds of the Sales
of the Public Lands, and to grant Preemption Rights," &c., approved September fourth,
eighteen hundred and forty-one.
Assent of Congress given to the application of the two per cent. fund granted to the
State of Mississippi to the construction of a railroad from Jackson to the eastern
boundary of said State.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the sixteenth section of said act be so amended as to give the consent of Congress,
and the same is hereby given, to the application of the two per cent fund heretofore
relinquished by said act to the State of Mississippi, to be faithfully applied to
the construction of a railroad leading from Brandon, in the State of Mississippi,
to the eastern boundary of said State, in such manner as to authorize the construction
of a railroad, commencing at Jackson, in said State, and extending to the eastern
boundary of said State of Mississippi, via Brandon, in the direction, as near as may
be, of the towns of Selma, Cahawba, and Montgomery, in the State of Alabama.
Approved, June 16, 1848.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Public Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 237