United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 180
Chap. CLXXX.—An Act to authorize the selection of certain school lands in the territory of Arkansas.
In certain case, other lands than the 16th sections may be selected.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, wherever the sixteenth sections in said territory, either in whole, or in part, are now, or may hereafter be, included in private land claims held by titles confirmed, or legally decided to be valid and sufficient, other lands equivalent thereto and most convenient to the same, may be selected in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the lands so selected shall be entered in the office of the register of the land district in which they may lie, and be, by such register, reported to the commissioner of the general land office, as school lands selected under this act: Provided, That, before making any entry of such other lands, the case shall be made out to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of said district, agreeably to the rules to be prescribed by the commissioner of the general land office, for that purpose, showing that the sixteenth section, or a part thereof, has been included in the manner above mentioned.
Approved, May 29, 1830.