Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-07
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CONGRESS.
From, the National ntelligencer, .4prI 6.

From, the National Lafeligencer, .4pri 6.
In the Senate, on Wednesday, the zee Pre-
sident communicated report of the Post Master
General, relative to advances for printing; chang
es made in contracts for carrying the mail, and
the'additional expense; expenses of advertising
for contracts to carry the mail, and the newspa-
pers in which the publications were made; the
employment of additional clerks, and the ex-
pense; the expenditures for alterations and re-
pairs, and for furniture for the Post Office De.
partment; the competency of the contractors to
fulfil their engagements; the alteration of certain
mail routes; and the changes made in the duties
of the Assistant Post Master General; prepared
in obedience to sundry resolutions of the Senate
of the 10th ultimo; which was ordered to be,
printed.
The Vice President also laid before the Senate
a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in an
swer to the inquiry Of the Senate of the Goth Of
March, whether any of the land lately sold in
Florida, was returned on the survey as swamp
land, and whether any of the same has been
8: since ascertained not to be so; or whether the
b" Surveyor General or any of his deputies, and
6. other land officers became the purchasers of
f" any land so returned as swamp land and was
&C not so;'' which was ordered to be printed.
He reports two tracts of the land described
were bid off, one by Deputy Surveyor, and the
other by Clerk in the Office of the Surveyor
General. These tracts are described in the sur
veys as low, wet, and marshy; but that there is
no evidence in the Department to shew that they
are not correctly described.
MIR. Hendricks, from the Committee on Roads
and Canals, reported, without amendment the
bill 8 authorizing a subscription of stock in the
Maysvile. Washington, Paris, and Lexington
Turnpike Road Company"
The bill to provide for the appointment of
Solicitor of the Treasury, was read the second
time, considered in Committee of the Whole,
and, on Mr.. Kings motion, postponed to, and
made the order of the day for, Monday next.
On motion by MIR. Benton, the bill to gradu-
ate the price of the public lands, to make provi-
sion for actual settlers. and to cede the refuse
upon equitable terms, and for meritorious OBJ
jects, to the States in which they lie, was resum-
ed; and
On motion of Mr.. Hayne, the sixth section
was stricken out.
This section provided for transferring to the
States in which they lie. all lands that remain
unsod or unsettled at the expiration of five years
from the 50th day of June next, upon condition
lands to the purposes of education and internal
Improvement, and to refund to the United States
the expenses incurred in surveying the land so
transferred. at the rate of S2l6 for each town
ship of s3,O4O acres.
. On motion of Mr.. Woodbu ry, the fourth sec
ton was stricken out.
Persons in INDECENT circumstances might, un-
der this section, receive donation of 80 acres.
Other amendments were made to the bill, on
the SUGGESTIONS of Mr.. Hayne and Mr.. WoodJu-
'y, until its provisions were reduced to
|. All lands subject to entry at private sale
since the S0th June, 1927, at 81 25, may, after
the S0th June next, be entered at one dollar the
acre.
2. Heads of families, single men over the age
of 81 years, and widows. may enter, each, quar-
ter-section of land that has been offered at one
dollar the acre, and remains unsold, on the pay
ment Of rs cents the acre, and forthwith settling
and cutvating the same for five consecutive years.