ThirtiethCongress,
FirstSession,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled.

That the School Commissioners or other authority of Township Two North, Range Nine West of the fourth principal meridian in the County of Adams and State of Illinois having jurisdiction over school lands be, and they are hereby authorized to select a section of land, within the limits of the said County of Adams in lieu of the sixteenth section in the above township: Provided, That said selection shall be made, and the Register of the Land Office notified thereof within one year from the passage of this act, and that the said section when so selected shall be applied to the use of schools in the same manner that the sixteenth section is now required to be applied and not otherwise: And provided further, that at the time of notifying the Register as above required, the said Commissioners or other authority shall relinquish and forever quit claim to the United States the sixteenth section to which they are now entitled by law.