# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 39

Chap. XXXIX.—An Act to authorize the establishment of a town, on land reserved for the use of schools, and to direct the manner of disposing of certain reserved quarter sections of land for the seat of government in Florida.
Certain voters in Jackson county, Florida, to elect commissioners to lay off a town on school lands, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the qualified voters in township five, range eleven, north and west, in the county of Jackson, in the territory of Florida, to elect, in such manner as may be directed by the county court of said county, three fit and discreet commissioners, who shall be, and they are hereby, authorized, by and with the consent of the voters of said township, to be obtained in such manner as the said county court shall direct, to lay off and establish a town on one quarter or two adjoining eighths of the sixteenth section ​of the township and range aforesaid, reserved by law for the use of schools, and to make sale of one half of the lots at public auction;To sell half the lots, &c. For benefit of schools. Commissioners to give bond and security. and the money arising from said sales shall be paid into the territorial treasury, for the sole use and benefit of common schools in said township, which said sum shall be subject to such laws as may hereafter be passed, for forming a permanent fund from the said reserved lands, for the support of common schools; and the said commissioners shall give bond and security, to the satisfaction of the county court, for the performance of the duties under this act, and the payment of the money arising from the sales of the lots as aforesaid.
Certain resreved lands granted to Florida.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following quarter sections of land which have been heretofore reserved from sale, to wit: the northeast and north-west quarters of section thirty-six, in township one, of range one, north and west; the north-east, south-west, and south-east quarters of section one, in township one, of range one, south and west; and the south-west quarter of section six, in township one, of range one, south and east, shall be granted to the territory of Florida.
Governor and council to select two quarter sections, &c. Act of Feb. 8, 1827, ch. 9. Residue to be sold, &c.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the governor and legislative council of Florida, or a majority of them, be, and hereby are, authorized to select any two of the aforesaid quarter sections of land, to be reserved for, and vested in, the state, should the territory of Florida ever be erected into one, in conformity to the provisions of the fourteenth section of the act passed on the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; and the residue of the above described quarter sections of land, or any part thereof, including so much of the north-east quarter of section one, in township one, of range one, south and west, contiguous to the creek and water-fall, as shall not be reserved, agreeably to the provisions of the act above mentioned, for the town of Tallahassee, shall be sold in such manner, and at such time, as the governor and legislative council of Florida may deem proper, and the proceeds applied to the erection of public buildings in Tallahassee; any act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 2, 1829.