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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 857. Grant to new States
There is granted, for purposes of internal improvement, to each
new State admitted into the Union, after September 4, 1841, upon
such admission, so much public land as, including the quantity that
was granted to such State before its admission and while under a
territorial government, will make five hundred thousand acres.
The selections of lands, granted in this section, shall be made
within the limits of each State so admitted into the Union, in such
manner as the legislatures thereof, respectively, may direct; and
such lands shall be located in parcels conformably to sectional
divisions and subdivisions of not less than three hundred and
twenty acres in any one location, on any public land not reserved
from sale by law of Congress or by proclamation of the President.
The locations may be made at any time after the public lands in any
such new State have been surveyed according to law.
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