...respeetively. The following motions, submitted by Mr Tipton, were considered and agreed to. Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of relinquishing to the States respectively the lands ci the United States within the limits of each...

...was offered on the twenty-ninth of December last, and expressed in the following terms : ' Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of limiting, for a certain period, the sales of the public lands to such lands only as have heretofore...

...orderet! to be on the table. Mr. liartnii submitted the following resolution fur consideration: Resolved, That the committee on public lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so modifying the act of congress, passed on the 24th of May last, making donations of land to the...

...submitted the following resolution, which was considered, by unanimous consent, and agreed to : Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reviving and extending for a limited time the act authorizing the location of donation claims in...

...December 29, Senator Samuel A. Foot, of Connecticut, offered the following resolution: " Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of limiting for a certain period the sales of the public lands to such lands only as have heretofore...

...innocent resolution, the cause of so much excitement and such grave results, was as follows: "Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of limiting for a certain period the sales of the public lands to such lands only as have heretofore...

...Mr. Ificholai offered the following resolutions, which lie «ne day for consideration: * Resolved, That the committee on public lands be instructed to inquire into the justice of grantinc to the etnle of Louisiana 500,000 acres of the public lands, within the limits...

...Yearnan submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz: Reaolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the best mode of securing to the United States the benefit the government ought to derive from the mineral...

...January 18, 1830, shows that they did so.6 December 29, 1829, Foote, of Connecticut, moved in the Senate that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expedienc}"- of limiting for a certain period the sale of the public lands to those already in the...

...seltlemcuts, during the last as well as the present year. On motion of Mr. Croi-l-ctt, it was Jiesolrerl, That the committee on public lands be instructed .to inquire into the propriety of making я donation of one hundred and sixty acres of land to eacfi actual settler on the...