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Private Law 22–X
for the relief of William B. Keene and John L. Martin, and for other purposes.
Approved January 28, 1833
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of William B. Keene and John L. Martin, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That William B. Keene and John L. Martin be, and they are hereby, authorized and permitted to complete their purchase
Authorized to purchase school land.
of lot number sixteen, in township number twenty-one, range TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 11, 13, 14, 15. 1833 number thirteen, east, in the district north of Red river, in the state of Louisiana, in virtue of their right of pre-emption, according to the act of Congress of the twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred
1830, ch. 208.
and thirty, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
Reservation of other land for schools.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be selected and reserved for the use of schools, within the said fractional township number twenty-one, in lieu of the aforesaid lot, a lot of land of equal extent and value, in the same township, or the next thereto adjoining.
Approved, .