The Arkansas advocate., 1831-02-23
With very great respect, Your ob't. sery't.
 ZSENIER.


 The following Is the bill referred to by A1r. SE- vIER in the above letter.
 A BjLL to amend and extend the provisions of the
 act, approved the twenty ty-nintl day of Hay, one
 thousand eighthundred and thirty, entitled s'An
 act to grant preemption rights to settlers on the
 public lands
 Be eaacted by the Senate and House Of Repre- sentattres ofihe United Stufes q ,fpserica Con- gresS assembled, That every bona 6de settler and occupant upon the public lands, being the head of family prior to the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and wto was in possession thereof and cultivated any part thereof in the year thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, and who shall continue to reside thereon up 10 the time of making his application for pre-emp- lion under the provisions of the act of Congress of the tw enty y-nintll day of May, thousand eight hundred and thirty, aforesaid and who has been prevented from availing himself of the provisions ef the before recied act, because the land on which Ire resided had not been surveyed, or, if veyed was not attached to any land district of the United States shall have the further time Of twelve Montls from the passage of this act to avail himself Of the provisions of the before rected act: ProUid- cd That the provisions of the before reeited act, of this act, shall not be construed give the right of pre- -empton to any lands within miles of any fort military station occupied by the troops of the United States, or to any lands con talning mines minerals, or to any lands on which live oak timber is to be found.
 SEC. }. And De Il further enacted That this act shall not delay the sale of the public lands Of the United States beyond the time which has been, or may be, appointed for that purpose by the Presi- dents proclamation: shall any of the provisions ot this act be available to any person persons who shall fail to make the proof and payment of the money required by the before recited act before the day appointed for the commencement of the sales oflands, including the tract tracts which the right of pre-emption is claimed.
 Mr. SEVER. has also been kind enough to trans init to us, the following Bills.
 BlLL for the benefit of Percis Lovely,
 Re Heaacted by the Senate aad House of Represen- adtipes of the Ualed Staes of .4me1ea in Congress assembled That the tract of land not exceedino. one half section including the present residence of Mrs. Percs Lovely, in Pope county in the Terri tory of Arkansas, shall be reserved by the Presi- dent of the United States from public safe, during the life time of said Percs, and that she shall have the entipe and privilege of, and possession of the said half section of land for and during her iifa Prop9ed That the said Pereis Lovely shall not commit,or permit any other person to commit, on said land, any voluntary waste.
 SEe ;. .4ad De t jtyther eaacted, That the Secre- fary of the Treasury pay unto the said Percis Love 1y, or her legal representative, out of any moHey in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated the Of five hundred dollars. the amount to which the improvements upon the land secured to her by the treaty at Hiawassee, in one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, for life, were valued, and which improvements and land were taken from her by the treaty at Waslingten n, of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, with tie Cherokee Ipdians Pyor,ded. That, before the money shall be paid the said percis Lovely. she shall produc to the Treasury Department satisac- tory evidence that the said sum of money has net