from the Tuesday, May 4, 1819 issue of the MOBILE GAZETTE & COMMERCIAL REGISTER:

AN ACT in behalf of the Connecticut Asylumn for teaching the Deaf and Dumb

Be it enactedby the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Theat there be granted to the Connecticut Asylum, for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons, a township of land, or tracts of land equal there to be, located under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in tracts of not less that four entire sections each, in any of the unlocated lands of the United States, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, which land shall be and forever remain to the use of said Asylum, for the education and instruction of the deaf and dumb persons, or if said Asylum shall sell land, which they are authorizto do, the money arising from such sale shall be and remain forever to the same use
H. Clay,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
JAS. Barbour,
President of the Senate, pro tempore.
March 3, 1819-Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
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