Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-02-25
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

TUESDAY, FEB. %, 1905.
Tb e journal Of yesterday was read, and cor
raofo / so as to show that the county lines bill
lsW was defeated the third reading, instead
Of the second.
PETITION.
Mr. WILLIAMS presented the petition of sundry
citizens with reference to patrol and police laws
SCHOOL LANDS.
DUNLAP from the Committee On Ways and
Means, submitted report in writing, as follows
The Co mmittee on Ways and Means have had
under con SIderation the report OF george Brown
and 7. c. Lyon, two Of the commissioners appointed
by resolution No 20, passed BY the Legislature Of
Tennessee on the 2Sab Of February, 1896, on the
subject Of the school lands lying IN the HIWassee
district, north and east Of the Tennessee river.
The committee have examined the claim of the citi
zens in that part Of the Hiwassee district TO school
lands, and find that by the act of Congress passed
April Is, 1906, the Congress Of the United States
gave to the State Of Tennessee the right 10 Issue
grants and perfect titles all the lands lying within
the State Of Tennessee, north and Of the Con-
gressiUual Reservation line on the condition that
she would lay down in the centre tract one hundred
thousand acres of land for the benefit of two col
leges, one in East Tennessee and one in West Ten.
nessee and one other tract of hundred thousand
acres for the of academies one in each county;
and ALSO 20 locate six hundred and forty acres TO
every six miles square in the said coded territory
where existing claims would allow the same for the
use Of schools for the instruction of children for
ever The Hiwassee dirtrict lies north and east of
the Congressional Reservation line, and by the pro-
visions Of the act of the General Assembly of the
State of Tennessee of 1919, chapter So section /
laying of the Hiwassee district into a surveyors
District, the Surveyor General was directed to lay
off tn sixteenth section Of each township Of six
miles square for schools for the instruction Of the
children in said township. 1t appears from the re-
port Of said commissioners that no school lands
we're laid off in that part Of the Hiwsssee district
lying north and east Of the Tennessee river.
The Committee have examined the act Of 1906 Of
the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee
laying of the State into surveyors districts, north
and east of the Congressional Reservation line and
north of Tennessee river, and find the same instruc-
ton given TO the different surveyors to lay off six
hundred and forty acres Of land TO each SIX miles
square in the district for the Of schools IN said
townships. where the same we're fit for cultivation,
and uruappropriated, by North Carolina, and they
were directed to report 10 the Legislature where
they did not lay of the school lands for the causes
above stated.
Youl, Committee have been unable to ind any re-
port made by the surveyors.
The fact is known that in no county in East Ten
uessee except the county Of Marion, north Of Ten
nessee river, ever had any school lands laid off to
them, and only few Of the counties in Middle
Tenne sses ever had any school lands laid of TO
them.
The Legislature Of Tennessee never directed her
Srrvsvors South and West Of the Congressional
Reservation line to lay of any school lands. Nor
snv ever laid Of. That portion Of theStats was as
much entitled to school lands as East and Middle
Tennessee under the act Of Congress admitting the
State Of Tennessee into the Union. She was admitted
on the same terms as the State Of Ohio, and BY the
act admitting the State Of Ohio she was entlleu TO
six hundred and forty acres Of land for each square
six miles square in the State for schools IN each
township.
Your committee have examined to see what the
State Of Tennessee has ever done for that portion OF
the State Whsre the school lands were not ai1 on ana
find by the act Congress of 1878 the Congress Of the
United States ssdsd The Stats Of Tennessee al the