Volume 4
Public Law 21–LXXV
to authorize the state of Illinois to surrender a township of land granted to said state for a seminary of learning, and to locate other lands in lieu thereof.
Approved March 2, 1831
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the state of Illinois to surrender a township of land granted to said state for a seminary of learning, and to locate other lands in lieu thereof.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House, of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the state of Illinois be, and is hereby, authorized, to relinquish to the United States, township number five, north of range number one west, situate in the county of Fayette, in said state, heretofore granted to the said state for the use of a seminary of learning, and to locate upon the public lands within said state, the sale of which is authorized by law, one entire township of land or a quantity of land equal thereto, in tracts of not less than the quarter of a section.
Approved, .