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Volume 6

Private Law 20–CVI

to authorize the selection of Lands for the benefit of a Seminary of Learning, in the State of Alabama, instead of other Lands heretofore selected.

Approved May 24, 1828

Statutory text

An Act

to authorize the selection of Lands for the benefit of a Seminary of Learning, in the State of Alabama, instead of other Lands heretofore selected.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That the trustees of the University of the State

Trustees of the University of the State of Alabama authorized to surrender the patents issued for section 12, &c., for a seminary of learning, and to receive, &c.

of Alabama be, and they are hereby, authorized to surrender the patents issued for section twelve, the north-east quarter of section seventeen, the north-east quarter of section twenty-eight, and the east half of the north-east quarter of section thirty-four, in township four, range eleven, west, in the Huntsville land district, and to select a like quantity in lieu thereof, of any of the public lands of the United States, in said State; and that, on such relinquishment being made by the trustees as aforesaid, patents shall issue to the purchasers from the United States, of said lands, or their assignees.

Approved, .

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