...petition ought not to granted. Mr. Noble submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, That the committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, for the division of a certain proportion of the quarter sections of the public...

...with an early report. The motion was agreed to. On motion of Mr. M'Coy of Virginia, it was Resulted, That the committee on public lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing the price at which said lands should be sold hereafter. On this question there was a...

...militia duty, during the last war. Mr. Benton submitted the following motion for consideration: Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making further provision by law for the final adjustment of private land claims in the state of...

...discharge the sums yet unpaid, by cash, advanced at discount, and by further relinqnishment. 2. Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting to actual settlers, prior to the first of July, 1890, in the state of Alabama, the right...

...Illinois, moved to strike out all of the resolution after the word Resolved, and insert the following: " That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating onethird of the proceeds of the future sales of the public lands to objects of internal...

...Wr.D5r.snAT, DECKMBKR 13, 1826. PUBLIC LANDS. Mr. BARTON submitted the following resolution : Rctolotd, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of encouraging the cultivators of the soil, and multiplying the number of freeholders in the United...

...Illinois, moved to strike out all of the resolution after the word Resolved, and insert the following: " That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating onethird of the proceeds of the future sales of the public lands to objects of internal...

...moved to strike out all of the resolution after the word Resolved, and insert the following: '.' Tliat the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating onethird of the proceeds of the future gales of the public lands to objects of internal...

...to aid in making that road. The following motion, submitted by Mr. Benton, was considered: Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the construction which has been given to the 8th section of the act of Congress of the 28th of May last,...

...affirmative. The following motion, submitted by Mr. Noble, was considered and agreed to: Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting a pre-emption right to purchasers of the public lands, whose lands are forfeited to the...