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Patents shall issue.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That patents shall issue, upon the presentation of said certificate of the register and receiver aforesaid, for the said quantity of land, not exceeding four sections, to the corporation of the city of Mobile, in the same manner that patents now issue upon the final certificate for other public lands.

Approved, March 3, 1827.

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March 3, 1827.

Chap. XCVI.An Act to provide for the completion of the road from a point opposite to Memphis, in the state of Tennessee, to Little Rock, in the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

9065 dollars appropriated.
Act of Jan. 31, 1824, ch. 17.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of nine thousand and sixty-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, in aid of the unexpended balance of the former appropriation to the same object, for the completion of the road from a point opposite to Memphis, in the state of Tennessee, to Little Rock, in the territory of Arkansas, to be paid, as the same may be required, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law.

Road from fort Smith on the Arkansas river to fort Towson, on the Red river, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause a military road to be opened from Fort Smith, on the Arkansas river, to Fort Towson, on the Red river, and from thence southwardly, to the northern boundary line of the state of Louisiana, by Washington, in Hempstead county, following the highlands between the waters of the Washita and Red rivers, in the direction of Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Troops of the United States to be employed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ such part of the troops of the United States as he may think proper, to survey and construct said road; and for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the sum of twelve thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 3, 1827.

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March 3, 1827.

Chap. XCVII.An Act concerning the location of land reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, in the state of Louisiana.

Secretary of the Treasury to locate a certain quantity of land, for a seminary of learning.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 39, sec. 11.
Act of March 3, 1811, ch. 46, sec. 7.
When the location is made, the title is to be invested in said state.
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 locate a quantity of land, not exceeding two entire townships, reserved by the eleventh section of the act of the twenty-first April, eighteen hundred and six, and by the seventh section of the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and eleven, for the use of a seminary of learning in the state of Louisiana, on any of the public lands in said state, in sections corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, so soon as the location of said lands shall be made as aforesaid, the title thereto shall be, and is hereby, vested in the state of Louisiana, for the use of a seminary or seminaries of leaning therein, as the legislature of said state may direct.

Approved, March 3, 1827.