United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 90
Chap. XC.—An Act concerning a seminary of learning in the territory of Michigan.
A quantity of land not exceeding two entire townships, to be reserved for the use and support of an university in Michigan.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to set apart and reserve from sale, out of any of the public lands within the territory of Michigan, to which the Indian title may be extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land, not exceeding two entire townships, for the use and support of an university within the territory aforesaid, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever, to be located in tracts of land corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed, not less than one section, one of which said townships, so set apart and reserved from sale, shall be in lieu of an entire township of land, directed to be located in said territory for the use of a seminary of learning therein, by an act of Congress entitledAct of March 26, 1804, ch. 35. “An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes,” approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and four.
Approved, May 20, 1826.