...Independent Treasury; an act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States ; an act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights ; and an act making appropriations for various fortifications, for ordnance, and for preventing and...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

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

...state in reply to your second resolution of the 8th instant, that it is provided by the 3d section of an act entitled 'An act to appropriate the proceeds...the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights,' 'that the several suras of money received in the treasury as the net proceeds of the sale* of the public...

...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 proceeds of 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...