Volume 6
Private Law 15–LVII
in behalf of the Connecticut Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb.
Approved March 3, 1819
Statutory text
An Act
in behalf of the Connecticut Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That there be granted to the Connecticut Asylum for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons, a township
Grant of a township of land.
of land, or a tract of land equal thereto, to be located, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in tracts of not less than four entire sections each, in any of the unlocated lands of the United States to which the Indian title has been extinguished; which land shall be and forever remain to the use of said asylum, for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons; or, if said asylum shall sell said land, which they are authorized to do, the money arising from such sale shall be and remain for ever to the same use.
Approved, .