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of the township and range aforesaid, reserved by law for the use of schools, and to make sale of one half of the lots at public auction; and the money arising from said sales shall be paid into the territorial treasury, for the sole use and benefit of common schools in said township, which said sum shall be subject to such laws as may hereafter be passed, for forming a permanent fund from the said reserved lands, for the support of common schools; and the said commissioners shall give bond and security, to the satisfaction of the county court, for the performance of the duties under this act, and the payment of the money arising from the sales of the lots as aforesaid.

. And be it further enacted, That the following quarter sections of land which have been heretofore reserved from sale, to wit: the northeast and north-west quarters of section thirty-six, in township one, of range one, north and west; the north-east, south-west, and south-east quarters of section one, in township one, of range one, south and west; and the south-west quarter of section six, in township one, of range one, south and east, shall be granted to the territory of Florida.

. And be it further enacted, That the governor and legislative council of Florida, or a majority of them, be, and hereby are, authorized to select any two of the aforesaid quarter sections of land, to be reserved for, and vested in, the state, should the territory of Florida ever be erected into one, in conformity to the provisions of the fourteenth section of the ; and the residue of the above described quarter sections of land, or any part thereof, including so much of the north-east quarter of section one, in township one, of range one, south and west, contiguous to the creek and water-fall, as shall not be reserved, agreeably to the provisions of the act above mentioned, for the town of Tallahassee, shall be sold in such manner, and at such time, as the governor and legislative council of Florida may deem proper, and the proceeds applied to the erection of public buildings in Tallahassee; any act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding.

, March 2, 1829.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the claims to lands and town lots contained in the abstracts denominated A, number one, D, number one, E, number one, F, number one, reported to the Treasury Department by the register and receiver of the land office for the district of Saint Stephens, in the state of Alabama, under the provisions of the, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed to the extend therein recommended for confirmation.

. And be it further enacted, That all the claims contained in special reports, numbered one to four, inclusive, and in a supplementary report of the said register and receiver, made as aforesaid, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed.

. And be it further enacted, That every person or persons, or the legal representatives of such person or persons, who, on the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, had, for ten consecutive years prior to that day, been in possession of a tract of land, not claimed by any other person, and not exceeding the quantity contained in one league square; and who were, on that day, resident in that part of Louisiana situated east of Pearl river, and west of the Perdido, and