United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 161
Chap. CLXI.—An Act to vest in the state of Indiana certain lands within the limits of the canal grant.[1]
Certain lands vested, &c.
Act of Feb. 27, 1841, ch. 12.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 56.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be vested in the state of Indiana twenty-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-eight acres and seventy-eight hundredths of the public lands, to be selected by the canal commissioners of said state, from the alternate sections reserved to the United States in the division made under “An act to grant a certain quantity of land to the state of Indiana, for the purpose of aiding said state in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Wabash river with those of Lake Erie,” approved March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, which shall be in lieu of the aforesaid quantity heretofore sold by the United States, permanently reserved by treaty to individuals, and located by individual grants before the division aforesaid, and which would otherwise have become the property of the said state in virtue of the act above referred to; the selections aforesaid to be made and reported by the commissioners to the proper land offices, before the reserved sections aforesaid shall be offered for sale.
Approved, May 29, 1830.
- ↑ An act to grant certain lands to the state of Indiana, the better to enable the said state to extend and complete the Wabash and Erie canal, from Terre Haute to the Ohio river, March 3, 1845, ch. 42.