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Private Law 28–CXLII
for the benefit of James Anderson, of the Territory if Iowa.
Approved June 17, 1844
Statutory text
An Act
for the benefit of James Anderson, of the Territory if Iowa.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the said James Anderson be, and he hereby is, permitted to enter, at the minimum price of the public lands, the
Authorized to enter certain land.
fractional sixteenth section in township sixty-nine north, range two west, containing two hundred and eighteen acres, and forty-five one-hundredths, in the district of lands subject to entry at Burlington, in the Territory of Iowa.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the authority having charge
Other land to be selected for use of schools.
of the said school land, is hereby authorized to select and report to the register and receiver of the district in which said land is situate, other unappropriated lands of the United States subject to private entry in the said Territory, of a similar quantity to that which shall have been en-
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TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 143, 144, 145, 146. 1844. tered by said Anderson, for the use of schools for the inhabitants of said township, under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner
Proviso.
of the General Land Office: Provided, The majority of the legal voters of said township sign a petition authorizing the said James Anderson to enter the said fractional section sixteen, in said township, and present the same to the register of the district.
Approved, .