Thirtieth Congress,
thiFirst Session,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.

That the lands granted to the State of Alabama for purposes of internal improvement by the eighth Section of the Act entitled “An Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights,” approved September fourth eighteen hundred and forty-one, may be, and the same are hereby placed at the disposal of the Legislature of said State, at such price as said legislature may direct, to be applied for the use of schools in such townships of said State, as in which the sixteenth, or school sections are comparatively valueless, and the Legislature may locate said lands, in any legal subdivisions, not less than forty acres, within the limits of said State.