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 TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 75, 79. 1834. 567 when he was in the military service of the United States as a volunteer, by reason of his being wounded in battle at Black Rock, on the fifteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen. Armzovnn, June 25, 1834. Srnurx I. CHAP. LXXV. —- An Act for the relief of the town of Fayctleville, in the Terri- June 26 1834 tory of .dri»:ansas. ———l—¥ Whereas, the seat of justice of Washington county, in the Territory of Arkansas, was located and called Fayetteville prior to the public sur- Preamble. veys being made, and when the lands were surveyed, the said town fell on section number sixteen, which, by law, is reserved for the use of schools; and whereas the said town is situated on the south half of the north-east quarter, and the north half of the south-east quarter, of section number sixteen, in township number sixteen, north of range number thirty, west of the fifth principal meridian, Therefore,- Be it enacted, ¢§·a., That the trustee of the school lands in and for S¤h¤¤11¤¤d¤$<> township number sixteen, north of range thirty, west of the fifth prin- jjiussgsezlgsgl, cipal meridian in the Territory of Arkansas, be, and he is hereby, authorized to select and have set apart for the use of schools in said township, one entire section of any of the unimproved lands in said township in lieu of section number sixteen; and when the said trustee shall make his selection, he shall nle the same in the onice of the register of the Fayetteville land office, and the land so selected shall be reserved from sale, and set apart {hr the use of schools; and that section number sixteen, in said township, shall be subject to sale and entry as other public lands now are. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the south half of the north- _Lands granted east quarter, and the north half of the south-east quarter, of section ’""‘:"i°’ ‘h° number sixteen, in township number sixteen, north of range number coun y` thirty, west of the filth principal meridian, in the Territory of Arkansas, be, and is hereby, granted to Lewis Evans, Larkin Newton, Samuel Vaughan and John lVooddy, commissioners of said county, in trust for the use of said county; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to issue a patent for the same; and that the said commissioners shall have power to lay 0H` the said land into town lots, and sell and dispose of the same, and make good and sufhcient titles to purchasers; and they shall appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the said lots to Proceeds, how the erection of a court—house and jail in the town of Fayetteville, for ‘°.b$gl’P’°‘ the use of said county. pm 6 ` Approved, June 26, 1834. ""T Section I. Ci-mr. LXXIX. --.x2n dst for the relief of Asher Mbrgan and others. June 26, 1834. 1 Be it enacted, dm., That Asher Morgan and the heirs at law of Philip Fitzgerald, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to pur- Authorized to chase quarter sections number twenty-three and twenty-four, in town- °"“"l’°‘“d· ship twenty-one, and range thirteen east, in the district of lands north of the Red River, in the state of Louisiana, near Lake Providence, according to, and in pursuance otQ the provisions of an act of Congress Act of May 29, passed the twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, 1B30» °h·2°8· giving the right of pre-emption to actual settlers in said district. Sec. 2. And be it _;‘in·lhe¢· enacted, That the register and receiver of said district be, and they are hereby, required to select two other quarter sections in said township, to be applied to the use and purposes to which said quarter sections have been heretofore assigned by them. Avrnovnn, June 26, 1834.