Aug. 11, 1848.
Chap. CLII. — An Act to authorize the State of Alabama to apply certain Lands heretofore granted
to that State for internal Improvements, for the Use of Schools in the valueless sixteenth
Sections in said State.
Certain lands granted to State of Alabama for internal improvements may be applied
by said State for the use of schools.
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 preëmption 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
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applied for the use of schools in such townships of said States 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.
Approved, August 11, 1848.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Public Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 281-82