United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 31
Chap. XXXI.—An Act providing for a grant of land for the seat of government in the state of Mississippi, and for the support of a seminary of learning within the said state.
Two sections of land for a seat of government.
To be located in one entire tract.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be granted to the state of Mississippi, two entire sections of land, or fractional sections, or quarter sections, not exceeding the quantity contained in two entire sections, for a seat of government in the said state; which land shall be located in one entire tract, at such place as, under the authority of the said state, shall be designated for the seat of government therein, whenever the Indian title shall have been extinguished thereto, and before the commencement of the public sales of the adjoining and surrounding lands belonging to the United States.
Another township for the support of a seminary of learning.
To be located by the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever, &c.
This grant in lieu of a township reserved by the act of 3d March, 1815, ch. 87.
The township reserved by the act of 3d March, 1815, to be sold.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the township of land granted for the support of Jefferson College, there shall be granted, in the said state, another township, or a quantity of land equal thereto, to be located in tracts of not less than four entire sections each, which shall be vested in the legislature of the said state, in trust, for the support of a seminary of learning therein; which lands shall be located by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, whenever an extinguishment of Indian title shall be made for lands suitable, in his opinion, for that purpose, in the said state: which grant, hereby provided to be made, shall be considered as made in lieu of a township directed to be reserved by the fifth section of an act, entitled “An act to provide for ascertaining and surveying of the boundary line fixed by the treaty with the Creek Indians, and for other purposes,” passed March three, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; and which reserve of one township, provided to be made by the aforesaid fifth section of said act, shall be offered for sale, in the same manner as the other public lands in the same district.
Approved, February 20, 1819.