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DAVIS v. INDIANA

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94 U.S. 792 (1877)

24 L.Ed. 320

DAVIS, v. INDIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

May 7, 1877.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on printed arguments by Mr. Ralph Hill for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. S. Stansifer, contra.

MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

The Congress of the United States, in the act admitting Indiana as a State, declared that every sixteenth section of a township, according to the legal subdivisions of the public lands lying within that State, should be appropriated for the use of schools within the township.

An act of the legislature of the State, prior to 1854, directed that the money derived...

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