United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 110
Chap. CX.—An Act concerning a seminary of learning in the Territory of Wisconsin.
1846, ch. 89. § 7.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 Wisconsin, to which the Indian title has been, or may be, extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land not exceeding two entire townships, for the use and support of a university within the said Territory, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever; to be located in tracts of land not less than an entire section, corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed.
Approved, June 12, 1838.