The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-28
Ithey would have some conssitutl0ndl scFls-

they would have some econssatutsoiad5 Scfix- pies.
 How much better than this wild, in- coherent and unequal course, is the system recommended by the President He tells us, pay of yossr de5ts frst. If yon have then . surplus, return t to the States who pay it, in just propor- tIons, to be expended in making inter nal improvements, or paying debts coz tracted in making them. Kentucky would receive much more than she can ever expect from irregular appropria- tions. Pennsylvania and New York would soon be able to pay of their debts. The control of each State over It's own soil would remain unimpeared. and the general government would con- inc itself to it's original obiects-an ef feent proteetion of the States ia the flll ererclse of tkeir soveriegutg over aU Heir internal colacer5ss. .'-Frankfort Argus.
 Public Edads.--ETFhie following is the Cir. Cir culaS letter of instructions from the Con- missioner of the General Land-ofice to the officers of the different Land-offces in the United States, on the subject of the right ofpre-emption to settlers on the Pub lie Lands. The act referred to was pub lIshed in our paper about month since.
 CIRCULAR.
 fHENER AT 41s41 Or,~vo,,
 June l0th, 1880.
 Geniienaea: Annexed you have . copy of the Act of Congress approved on the 29th ulto. entitled ss An Act fo grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the Public Lands.'
 This act grants to any person who actually Calti0ated tract of the Pub lle Lands in the year 1929, and who continuing thereon, was in the actual posaessio'a of that tract at the date of the passage of the act, pre-emption right to the Lands at sl 8 per acre.
 The fact of the CultiDatioa in I829. and that of the possession of the Land applied for on the 29th of May IS30. must be established by the affidavit ol the occupant, supported by such cor roboratiFe testimony as may be entire Unsatisfactory to youbot The evidence must be taken by Justice of the Peace. ln the presence of the Register and Re. eeiyer, and be in answer to such inter. rogatorles propounded by them as may be best calculated to elect the truth. The whole of the evidence must be carefully fled in the Office of the Re. gister.
 All Lands not o.her,eise appropriatea of which the Township plats are, ol may be, on file in the Registers Office. prior to the expiration of the law, are subject to entry under the Act. Where the whole of the improve. ment is embraced in the limits of a ouar. ter Section, the occupant must be con ilned to the entry of that particular qesaFtes Sectiofs,". but where the i'm. provement is situated in different quar ter Sections, then the occupant Is en. titled to enter the two adjacent leea subdlvisons or hal-quarters in whict the improvement may lie, not exceed ing one hundred and sixty acres in tht whole.
 in making your usual returns to thi. Office, you will in all cases of purchase under this Act, designate them by mark ing on the Returns and the Certificate ot Purchase, Pre-emption, Act of 1880. , With great respect, gentlemen, you ob't servt.
 GEoRGE GRAHAM, eons,, The REGISTER d5 RECEIVER of He 1 JANn OrE1cs ot - --.----OO-
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