United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 97
Chap. XCVII.—An Act concerning the location of land reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, in the state of Louisiana.
Secretary of the Treasury to locate a certain quantity of land, for a seminary of learning.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 39, sec. 11.
Act of March 3, 1811, ch. 46, sec. 7.
When the location is made, the title is to be invested in said state.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 locate a quantity of land, not exceeding two entire townships, reserved by the eleventh section of the act of the twenty-first April, eighteen hundred and six, and by the seventh section of the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and eleven, for the use of a seminary of learning in the state of Louisiana, on any of the public lands in said state, in sections corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, so soon as the location of said lands shall be made as aforesaid, the title thereto shall be, and is hereby, vested in the state of Louisiana, for the use of a seminary or seminaries of leaning therein, as the legislature of said state may direct.
Approved, March 3, 1827.