Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-01-01
Congressional Proceedings.
FROM THE NATIONAL IyTELLlGENcER.
Thursday, Dec. 90.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

FROM THE NATIONAL lSTELLlGENCEh'
Thursday, Dec. %.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Mr.. Anderson, from The committee on pub
lie lands, reported the following bill:
Be Il enacted, &c. That no lands purcha.
chased from the United States on or efore
the first day Of July last shall be considered
as forfeited 10 the government for failure in
completing the payment thereon, until the
Slst day of December, 1921; and that all
persons indebted to the government for
lands shall be permitted, on or before the
day aforesaid, to surrender to the register OF
the land Office of the district in which their
purchase or purchases have been made, by
half-quarter sections, or legal subdivisions
of fractional sections, any part OF the guam
tiiy which they may respectively hold. and
The sums which such persons may have paid
on the land so surrendered. shall be carried
10 their credit on the quantity retained; the
quarter sections and fractions shall be diVi-
ded for the purpose OF surreudering, as by
law is now directed. No interest shall be
charged against any person for monies due
and unpaid on any tract surrendered as a
foressid. or on any tract retained and paid
for on or before the SAID 3Ist day Of Decem-
Der 1891; and on complete payment being
made for any tract, agreeably 10 the Provi-
sions Of this act, patent shall issue, as in
other cases.
Sec. 2. And be ,t further enacted, That all
persons indebted TO the government for lands
shall, on payment in cash of the whole pur-
chase money, for any tract, on or before the
3lst day of December, 1891, be allowed a
deduction OF - per cent. on the oIigi-
nal price at which their lands were purcha-
sed, excluding interest, and computing the
monies already paid as part OF the said
purchase money.
Sec. 5. .4nd be ii further enacted, That all
pei nus indebted to the government for
lands. and who shall not, on or before The
SIst day OF December 1891, have made pay
ment therefor, shall be permitted TO pay the
sums by them respectively due, in g
quail annual instalments, without interest
the first of which shall be payable the -
day Of -, and failure to make payment
of any of the aforesaid instruments at the
time they may become due, shall deprive
the person so failing OF all the benefits to be
= FROM, THE linn
Mr.. Smyth from the military committee,
reported The following bill:
Be !; enacted, SC. That from and after the
hrst day of May next, the military peace es-
adjustment OF the United States shall con-
sist uf six thousand hon commissioned OIL
GERS, musicians and privates, with due
proportion Of field and company officers. ac-
coriing to the present organization of com
panies, and in such proportions of artillery
and infantry as the president OF the United
States shall direct; aud, that the corps OF
Engineers, as at present established, he re-
tanned in service.
Ind be Ii, further enacted, That the presi-
dent OF the United States cause 10 be arran-
ged the officers, non-commissioned officers,
musicians, and priyates, of the several corps
oil troops now in service, in such manner as
10 torn and complete the corps 10 be retain
ed IN service under this act, consolidating
the corps OF ordnance and the corps OF light
artillery with the corps of artillery, and the
corps OF riheuen with the infantry land cause
tbe supernumersry officers. n-commission-
ed officers, aud priSates, TO be discharged
from the service.
And Be 1t fsrthsr enacted, That there be
one b,igadier general, with one aid-de-
camp, one assistant adjutsnt general, and
one assistant inspector general there shall
also be enc adiutant general, one quarter