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Public Law 33–XII
to Indemnify the State of Indiana for the Failure of Title to a Township of Land granted to said State on her admission into the Union in eighteen hundred and sixteen.
Approved February 23, 1854
Statutory text
An Act
to Indemnify the State of Indiana for the Failure of Title to a Township of Land granted to said State on her admission into the Union in eighteen hundred and sixteen.
Whereas by a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, made January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, the State of
14 How. 268.
Indiana has lost one out of the two townships of land granted to her for the use of a State University by act of April sixteenth [nineteenth]
1816, ch. 57.
eighteen hundred and sixteen, and has become liable to refund to a private corporation the proceeds of said township heretofore appropriated to the support of the State University of Indiana—for remedy thereof:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the governor of the State of Indiana be authorized to select out of lands of the United States, with-THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 13, 14, 17. 1854. in the said State, now subject to private entry, nineteen thousand and forty acres of land in legal subdivisions, and shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall, forthwith, on receipt of said certificate, issue, to the State of Indiana, patents for said lands: Provided The proceeds of said lands, when sold, shall be, and forever remain, a fund for the use of the Indiana University.
Approved, .