The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-10-23

strued to relate TO any Indian or Indians
within said Territory, unless they are citizens
Of the United States.
Sec. 90. And be ii further eaacted, That
for the purpose of further promoting the
cause OF learning, advancing the arts of
peace, and giving agricultural enterprise and
mechanical labor the aid Of science, as the
lands In said Territory shall be surveyed un-
der the direction of the United States, pre-
paratory to bringing the same into market,
there shall be, in addition to the reservation
hereinbefore made for the support of com.
mon schools, further reserved from sale with
in said Territory nine entire townships of
land, to be located and designated in differ
ent parts of sa id Territory, in tractor tracts
Of at least one ehtire township in body, by
or under direction of the Secretary of the
Interior, six of which townships are hereby
set apart as endowments, under the future
dire ction OF Congress to such universities OF
learning as shall be established by the State
or States which may be formed out of said
Territory efter the same shall have been
adm tted into the Union; and the other
three town ships, under the like direction, as
endowments, and for the support OF mechan-
ical aud agricultural professorships and de-
partments which msy be connected with
such universities as may in like manner be
provided and established by such new State
or States 10 be formed out of said Territory,
or such agricultural and mechanical schools
as may be established by such State or
States, disconnected with md independent
OF such universities of learning; but neith-
er the said Territory, nor the State or States
thereof to be formed, shall in anywise inter-
fere with any part of the lands reserved 10
this act without the consent Of Congress
| first thereto had and obtained, and then only
so Ear as such consent may be expressly
given. And in like manner, as the lands in
the Territory of Nebraska shall be surveyed
as aforesaid, there shall be reserved from
sale eighteen entire townships in the said
Territory, to be located and designed as
those are required to be in the Territory Of
Kansas, in all respects, twelve OF which
shall be held as endowments for universities
| of learning, and six for such mechanical and
agricultural proFessorships or schools, as
may be provided and established; and such
reserved townships shall, in all respects, be
subject To- the same regulations, restrictions,
and prov iSions in the Territory Of Nebraska,
or the State or States thereof to be formed,
50 ar as is applicable, as are hereinbefore
prescribed in reference to the like reserva.
tions in the Territory of Kansas, and shall
be for the benefit Of, and subject TO such
regulations, restrictions, limitations, and
provisions as shall hereafter be established
bylaw in regard to the new State or States
that shall III future be formed out OF the said
!, Territory of Nebraska. And it shall further
be the duty of said Secretary to cause to be
selected, located, and reserved from sale il
the said Territories of Kansas and Nebras
ka, res pectively, two sections of land else
where in said Territories, respectively, fol
each and every township above required tc
be reserved from sale, in lieu of sections
sixteen and thirty-six in said reserved town
ships; and the eighteen sections in Kansa:
and the thirty-six section in Nebraska SO Il
| bo in of
t tions sixteen and thirty,six OF the aforesaid
, reserved townships shall be reserved from
the sale for the support Of common schools
, in said respective Territories and be subjec
5 to the same restrictions in all respects a
] are herenbefore provided for other section
set apart to the use of common schools. '.
f Sec. 20. And be ii further enacted That
for the purpose of encouraging the speed,
r settlement of our new Territories of Kan
sas and Nebraska by a population of suf
+ tficient force to defend themselves against al
5 depredations of the indians, or of other evil
disposed persons, and thus to relieve III,
i, government of the burthen and expense o
g maintaing, at great cost and inconvenience
: military posts and partroling troops in thos
n emote Territories, every white person, be
r ing the head of family and citizen of th
d United States, or who, if of foreign birth
. shall have made declaration, in due form
s of law, of int ntion TO become citizen o
: the United States, who ehull locate upol
: any of the lands of the United States in
t tended for sale in said Territories, and i'm
h prove and cultivate the same, at any tim
d before the first day Of January, eightee
e hundred and fifty eight, and shall contnu
: to reside thereon for one year with his Q
her family, shall be entitled to continu
t such occupancy for that time and afterward
!, to the first day of January eighteen hundre
e and sixty, as by pre-empton, and until sue
Y such lands shall be surveyed by the Unite
States and ready for sale, by fiIinga motto
e tof such settlement and intention to claim th
: benefit of such pre- emption with the registe
Of the land Office of the district in whic
: such location may be made, if the same
h embraced in any land district, and, il not S
y embraced, with the register of the neares
land Office; which notice shal be accordin
t to such forms and made in such way as th
s Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.--
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