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Private Law 16–X
for the relief of Andrew Knox.
Approved February 3, 1837
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Andrew Knox.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That Andrew Knox, of Washington county, in the state of Mississippi, be, and he is hereby, authorized and permitted
May purchase a section of land in Choctaw district.
to purchase, upon the payment of the minimum price to the receiver of the proper land district, section sixteen, in township fourteen, range nine west, in the Choctaw district, in said state, the purchase of which section heretofore was prevented by the illegal numbering of the sections in said township.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
A section to be reserved for public schools.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be selected and reserved for the use of schools within the said township, numbered fourteen, in lieu of the aforesaid section, a section [of ]land in equal extent in said Choctaw land district.
Approved, .