United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 236
Chap. CCXXXVI.—An Act to authorize the Governor and Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, to sell the lands heretofore reserved for the benefit of the general seminary of learning in said Territory.
Lands may be sold.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Governor and Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to sell and convey, in fee simple, for the benefit of the University of Florida, of which |Joseph M. White, R. K. Call, Thomas Randall, John G. Gamble, Thomas Eston Randolph, Louis M. Goldsborough, Ben. Chaires, Turbutt R. Betton, F. Eppes, E. Lockerman, Fitch W. Taylor, J. Loring Woart, Ashbeel Steel, and J. Edwin Stewart are trustees, any part not exceeding one half of the two townships of land heretofore reserved and appropriated by Congress for the establishment and support of a seminary of learning1823, ch. 29, sec. 11. in the Territory of Florida, and to appropriate so much of the money arising from the sale thereof, as may be deemed expedient for the erection of commodious and durable buildings for said University; for the purchase of apparatus, and whatever else may be suitable for such University; and to invest the remainder in some productive funds, the proceeds of which shall be devoted for ever to the benefit of said University of Florida.
Approved, July 1, 1836.