...instructed, and our representative requested to use their best exertions to effect the repeal of the " Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights," except so much of the said act as grants five hundred thousand acres of land to each of the new states...

...has ever previously been, !>;-• the passage by Congress on the 4th day of September last, of the "Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights.'' Its provisions,! think, present a sufficient inducement for a change as early as practicable, in the...

...concurred in by the senate. The bill to provide for the repeal of the proviso of the sixth section of the act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands and to grant pre-emption rights, was called up, on motion of Mr. Crittemlen, and passed by the following vote: YEAS — Messrs. Archer....

...to the degradation of the condition of man. The proviso to the 6th Section of the Act of Sept. 1841, to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights, suspending the distribution, whenever the impost duties should, upon any article, exceed 20 per cent.,...

...and Territories, and District of Columbia, under the provisions of the act of 4th September, 1841. entitled "An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands, &c." it appears that the sum of $15,187 54 is due to the State of Maryland. And the accompanying...

...of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, entitled " An act to distribute the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights to settlers." Some of the provisions of which act must materially, if riot vitally affect the welfare...

...Representatives in Con|ress to use their exertions to procure a repeal of certain parts of the act i Congress, entitled "An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of be public lands and to grant pre-emption rights," was taken up, when Mr. Worthington moved to amend...

...thirtieth day of June, 1842, of the nett proceeds of the public lands, agreeably to the provisions of an act of congress entitled " an act to appropriate the...lands, and to grant pre-emption rights,'* approved 4th September, 184L Resolved, That the said Joshua Hathaway, upon the receipt of the said sum, shall...

...Resolutions, adopted by the General Assembly of this State at its recent session, in relation to an act of Congress, entitled " an act to appropriate...the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights." I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, CF CLEVELAND. His Excellency, The...

...otherwise than by the laws of the United States. Its provisions particularly conflicts with the act entitled "an act to appropriate the proceeds of the...lands, and to grant pre-emption rights," approved September 4, 1841. The tenth, eleventh, ttrelvth, thirteenth, snd fifteenth sections of this act prescribe...