Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-01-18
! TAysspAy, sTkE l4FE NOV. 1905.

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To the Honorab9e tie Senate, and to the Ho.
nsrable tee House If Representatives If
the United States, ~ Congress assembled,
ne memorial of the House Of Re5ressn;a.
tipss Of ths territory Of Orleans,
REsPEcTFuLLY REPRESENTS.
That your memoriasists have care.
fully considered the act passed at the LAST
sessions-of Congress entitled :. An &C. for
ascersaiaing, aud adjusting the titles and
claims 10 laad wlthia the serritory OF Or.
leans, snd the district OF Louisiana" and
whllss .hey applaud he motive, which has
thus early called sour altsnsson TO that sub
iect. they remsia impressed with a convic-
ton thai many ct the provisions of that
acs require MISUNDERSTANDING thrss
defects In the law TO the want of local In
forma,ibu, which their remote stoa,ion
frem tfs seat of government, has rendered
il impossible you shout aattain: your me-
morialisss confidently trust thar upon expo.
sing the injuries ros which they would be
subjected BY the execution of that act, in
sits present imperfect form, your honorable
body viii apply the appropriate remedy.
The former governments of France and
Spain, under whose dominion this conn.
try has successively passed, did not .consi-
der the vacant lands as source from which
revenue was 10 be derived, but as a mesns
OF increasing the 2pulatian Of the country,
encouraging Sits agriculture, and gaining
shr affection of It's inhabitants.
IT ~ raady err
laads TO those who removed ID the pro-
vince and applied for them: and although
the concessions generally contained con
disi6ns, that the lands should be seltled
within three years, tina; The roads ADD irvies
.should be made, and that ne grantee
should hot alien,unlrss .he conditioos were
performed, yet Il was wel' understood tina;
these conditions, Ike ihose inserted blythe
British government, in many OF Der cooni-
al pa,en.res, werenot d-s:gned tlr the pn,,
spose Of Compelling a tigornas performance
ofthem, bat with a view 10 i,nprass the
grantee with sease of dependence epon
that government from which his ,ides en-.
.enstrd, and to bind him 10 stlA, sovere:gn,
sua5D whom he depended FOR ultimate c.t,-
~
e j 10 the king eicminions Tor VAST OF a
perforinances 81 ,he cnnl;tsens, except
where the grsstcs had Rah.teS.ed some d.
cided dispos,.ioa 10 ab .nsicn ~; Or To
leave the province and esea s3,rd such
laa;is were never considered - liable to be
--..rraneets, eat,l the surveysre arsai, who
.syss ordered 10 make the rcc, ssaTy ineui
=. IL III. 1.
seteTe subject in eonsee,-fce of negiecting
- esfcrln tFss conditions, tobr re annexed
70 his msles,y's domain. Ffo.,: ;hisview
If the subject; yoar hoacr.thie body viii
readily account Tor ih,,. want ri cfsposi-
lion. 10 speculate 10 lands. whiea is aoni-
fgsssa hy she srna.l tracts which avs now
Id by at tAe anc;rat sirhabi.an.s S, and for
frat Il g~acs IN oiItsiniug complete ti'lss
which would in Other countries b. iaex.
,.usable ADD unaceoun,aS::r. 10y here GU
-srnment possessing ia.mensr tracts otlAnd
l. re ever re adv 70 hssicw ths IL eu he fij st
..sn:icant, il is sbsioaS sha, suth property
could never bS considered MS worth the
$. xpeGse OF engrossing; AMI whers new
-. ,ecessions we're daily oaer~d 10 strangers,
az IS 10, surprising ma; ,he old lubricants
.xaoald feel secure, with imperfeclutles. On
Lac. scanty portiuns which their ancestors or
sasmselves had acquired.
The act to which we have called the at.
cotton of congress, requires that, 10 or
TO the confirmation of Incomplete titles,
Gated prior 10 the first day OF October,
1900, it shall be necessary,
lsr. Tha, the person 10 whose favor the
~ ,rrant issued, should at the time It ema'
,Eased. have attained the age OF twenty
ole. or have been the head OF a family.
I'd. That the lands should have been