32(5 ACTS OF CONGRESS 



SECS. 579-580 UNIVERSITY LANDS. 



In lieu of those sections was a power conferred upon the territory by this section 

 and sees. 593-594, post ; Johanson v. State, 26 Wash. 668 ; affirmed, 190 U. S. 

 179. 



SEC. 579. RESERVATION FOR UNIVERSITY. 



In lieu of the two townships of land granted to the Territory of 

 Oregon by the tenth section of the act of eighteen hundred and fifty, 

 for universities, there shall be reserved to each of the Territories of 

 Washington and Oregon two townships of land of thirty-six sections 

 each, to be selected in legal subdivisions, for university purposes, under 

 the direction of the Legislatures of said territories, respectively. (Act 

 July 17, '54; 10 Stat. L., p. 305, sec. 10.) 



The grant superseded by this section is found in 9 Stat. L., p. 499, sec. 10. 

 Grant of the lands so reserved : sec. 587, post. 

 Cited: 5 Wash. 564. 



SEC. 580. SAME CONSTRUED AS GRANT. 



Whereas it is represented that sales have been made by territorial 

 authorities of lands selected in virtue of the terms of the foregoing 

 section, authorizing selections to be "reserved" merely, under the 

 conviction that they had the power to dispose of the same as a fee- 

 simple grant: be it enacted, etc., That in all cases of sales made to 

 individuals by the territorial authorities prior to the passage of this 

 section, in which it may be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary 

 of the Interior that such sales were ~bona fide and of the class herein- 

 before mentioned, and that the tracts so sold are selections in all other 

 respects regular and proper; it shall and may be lawful for the said 

 secretary to approve such selection as a grant in fee simple, and a 

 transcript, certified under the seal of the general land office by the 

 commissioner thereof, of such approval, shall vest the title in the 

 territory and in its lona fide vendees. (Act Mar. 14, '64; 13 Stat. L., 

 p. 28.) 



As to lieu lands selected by Territorial authorities : sec. 603, post. 

 Procedure for quieting title to lands so sold : sec. 416 et seq., ante. 

 Cited : 5 Wash. 564 ; 3 Wash. 338. 



