The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-03
[puBLIc-NO. II.


AN ACT to amend an act entitled An act TO carry
into effect, in the States Of Alabama and Missis-
Fippi, the existing oompacls with those States with
regard to the five per cent fund and the school re-
seyations."
BE Il enacted By The Senate and House Of Rspresenia
tines Of hs United STATES Sf america Ia Congress assem-
bled, That much OF the fourth section OF the act
enuted 40 carry into effect IN the States Of
Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compaets with
those States with regard 10 the five per cent und and
the school reservations puTpofs to require that
quantity Of land, equal to the one thIHy-sxh part OF
the lands lying within the State OF Alabama, which
were disposed OIL directed to be disposed Of in and
by the treaty between the United States and the
Chckasaw Indians, made and concluded at the city
OF Washington, the twenty fourth day Of May,
one thousand eight hundred and thiryfour, shall be
selected under the direction of the Secretary Of the
Treasury, within any land district 10 said State Of
Alabama, contiguous l. said lands within said State
disposed Of &c, by the said Chickssaws store
SAID, be, and the same Is hereby, repealed Provided
That nothing herein contained shall be construed
ss Ia any wise to affect the validity and binding force
Of any such selections as may heretofore have been
made In virtue Of said fourth section and sanctioned
and accepted by the inhabitants OF those surveyed
townships, respectively, for whom they may have
been made, as an equivalent and substitute for sec
lion number sixteen, within such surveyed township
Sec. ind Il further enacted, That said lands,
equal 10 quantity to thrysixth part Of the lands
so, in virtue of said treaty, disposed Of SC, within
said State Of Alabama, (deducting therelrom such
quantity, # any, may have been selected, aiore-
said, under the authority OF said fourth section aud
accepted, aforesaid IN lieu Of said section number
sixteen, by the inhabitants OF the proper surveyed
township may be selected under the direction Of the
Governor of Alabama, al any time within two years
from the passing Of tins act IN sections half sections
quarter sections previously defined fractions out
Of any Of the surveyed public lands, within any Of the
land districts IN the States Of Alabama or Mississippi
subject 10 sale at private sale and not in any wise
encountered by any prior claim lien or reservation
as the Governor Of the said State Of Alabama may
direct. But the same selections, respectively shall
not be holden to have been perfected until the same,
as from time 10 time they shall have been made, shall
have been reported to the Commissioner Of the Gene
raj Land Office, together with proofs taken in such
manner as the Legislature Of the State Of Alabama
shall prescribe Of the assent Of the inhabitants Of the
surveyed townships, respectively, for whose benefit
the same may have been selected; and that the said
inhabitants consent TO and accept the same, in lieu
Of, and full equivalent for, the school section
which, by the sixth section of the act entitled An
act TO enable the people of the Alabama Territory to
form Constitution and State Government, and for
the admission of such State into the Union, on an
equal footing with the original States" guaran-
tied to them.
Sec. 3. Ind be il further enacted That when the
land shall have been aforesaid selected and re-
ported and as aforesaid so accepted by said inhabi
tanE Of said surveyed township, respectively, the
same shall vest in the State Of Alabama, subject to
the same disposition and uses; and shall be holden
subject TO the conditions and terms, in all
specs whatsoever as by the said sixth section Of the
act herein above referred to, were prescribed in
tended in relation to sections number sixteen, within
said State Of Alabama. And il shall be competent
for the said Governor Of Alabama from time to
time such selections may be made, and before they
perfected aforesaid, to give notice thereof to
the register Of the proper land office of the land dis
trlct IN which such selection may be made IN such
form the Commissioner Of the General Land Office
shall prescribe; and thereupon, the land selected
shall, during such convenient time such Commits
soner of the General Land Office may prescribe, be
considered, for the time being, as withdrawn from
SALE and not subject to entry.
Approved, February Goth, 1915,