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state of Indiana shall be, and is hereby, authorized to sell and convey, in fee simple, all, or any part, of the lands heretofore reserved and appropriated by Congress for the use of schools within said state, and to invest the money arising from the sale thereof in some productive fund, the proceeds of which shall be forever applied, under the direction of said legislature, for the use and support of schools, within the several townships and districts of country for which they were originally reserved and set apart, and for no other use of purpose whatsoever: Provided, said land, or any part thereof, shall, in no case, be sold without the consent of the inhabitants of such township, or district, to be obtained in such manner as the legislature of said state, shall, by law, direct: And provided, also, That in the apportionment of the proceeds of said fund, each township and district aforesaid shall be entitled to such part thereof, and no more, as shall have accrued from the sum or sums of money arising from the sale of the school lands belonging to such township or district.

. And be it further enacted, That, if the proceeds accruing to any township or district, from said fund, shall be insufficient for the support of schools therein, it shall be lawful for said legislature to invest the same, as is hereinbefore directed, until the whole proceeds of the fund belonging to such township or district shall be adequate to the permanent maintenance and support of schools within the same.

, May 24, 1828.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claimants of lands within that part of the limits of the land district of Jackson Courthouse, in the state of Mississippi, lying below the thirty-first degree of north latitude, whose claims have been presented to the commissioners appointed to receive and examine claims and titles to lands in said district of Jackson courthouse, or to the register and receiver of the land office at Jackson Courthouse, acting as commissioners under the provisions of the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled “,” and which have not been reported to Congress, or whose claims have not been heretofore presented to said commissioners, or to the register and receiver acting as commissioners, or whose claims have been acted upon, but additional evidence adduced, be allowed until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to present their titles and claims, and the evidence in support of the same, to the register and receiver of the land office at Jackson Courthouse, in the state of Mississippi, whose powers and duties in relation to the same, shall, in all respects, be governed by the provisions of the acts before recited, and of the act of the eighth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled “.”

. And be it further enacted, That the said register and receiver shall have power to receive and examine such titles and claims, and for that purpose shall hold their sessions at Jackson Courthouse, and the town of Shieldsborough. They shall give immediate notice after the passage of this act of the time and place of their meeting, but may adjourn from time to time as may best suit the convenience of claimants, upon giving due notice thereof. And the said register and receiver shall have power to appoint a clerk, who shall be a person capable of