The Arkansas advocate., 1833-04-10

'.iS .eihi ol Ike consecutive YCars. anf shall be 4 citizen of the United Stafe, z at the end of that linse, the sal. persan or Il dead, his or her legal represenfa tive, shall be entitled 10 reeeis,'., f,,,t,.ni lliefeior iromtAe uiiitsd States.
 in the course of the discussson uno,i
 tliis substitute, Mr. Poindextar of Nils
 slssIppl, offered an amendment ,o the original bull, containing the lellowino additional provisions, vlz:- That all tbe lands which shall have been slrye,ed and offered at public sale, and subject 10 entry at private sale, and winch shall remaln uhsold at the expiratioa of ten years. after they shall nave beei subieet l 10 PrNate entry, shall be oilcrs Il at Sl
 per acre; do. do. Is years, 7, cnts
 per acre, do. do. 20 ears, ts.# acre. Every head or q family or per son aboyetil age of Il years, rho siiaii desire 10 purchase a tract of land not
 exceeding i60 acres, for the purpose oi actual settlement and cultivation. shall. Tn Case such land is subject to entry al lprlyate sale, be entitled, on the payment ot 5O cents per acre, 10 certificate from the proper Register, authorizing such person 10 take possession of the same, and in case if shall be actually in- habited and cultivated by him or her, or his or her legal representatives, or some other person for his or her use, for five consecutive years. then at the end of this period, n title shall be given 10 said individual in full, without further pay. ment or obligation.
 Sec. 5. And be it further enacted.
 that during the period Tn which the nett proceeds of the sales of the FuDil6 Lands shall be distributed among the several States, according to the provis- ions of this act, there shall be annually appropriated for completing the surveys of said lands, a sum not less than S30, 0OO, and the minimum price at which l the public lands are now sold at private sale shall not be increased, and in case the same shall be increased by law with in the period aforesaid 30 much of this act IS provides that the nett proceeds of the sales of the public lauds shall he distributed among the several States, shall, from and after the increase of the minimum price thereof, cease and be- come utterly null and of no effect, any thing in this aetto the contrary notwith standing.
 Sec. 1. And be 1t further enacted, That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury that the nett proceeds of the sales of the public lands within any district now established, or which may hereafter Dc established by law, shall not be sufficient to discharge the salaries of the officers employed by the United States within such district, it shall be his duty to discontinue such officers. and the lands contained iia stel, district remaining unsold, shall be an- nexed to the adjoining district.
 The first oi these two sections was adopted by vote of 25 10 If, and the second by vote of 27 to IT. 'i'he oth- CT sections of Mir. Poindexter's amend ment were rejected. and also the entire substitute reported by tho cv,nHIttee of Public Lands. So that the bill, as passed by the Senate, is in fact the ori- ginal bill presented by Mir. Clay with these two sections additional. If the
 reader will now cast his eye over so much of the above article as is included
 in brackets, ne will see precisely what are the provisions of the bill, as it pass
 ed the Senate. We presume, however,
 that instead of it's taking effect from the
 3 st Dec. 1882, as in tine original draft,
 it is not to take effect till the 3Ist De
 cember 1883.
 The success of tie bill in the House is considered very doubtful. For our selves, we hope it will become a law.
 The principal opposition to it, we have
 reason to believe arises from the fact
 that it will deduct so much (say S2,5OO, GOO perannuml from the National reEe-
 nue, and consequently leave an equal
 amount to be raised by duties onimports,
 beyond what would otherwise be ne
 cessary for the support of Government. E, Two million five hundred thousand .I dollars. divided among the 24 States,
 in the ratio of federal population, would give to New York about 4OO,000 pel annum, Connecticut and New-Jersey , about 60, 900 each, Massachusetts abou, I SI3O,00O, ,Pcnnsy ylvania abou! S2s0, 900 f and in the same propartion fnF-tlae eth t CT States. These snug little sums, i fl jadiciousIy expended for the objects spe 2 cified in the bill, would give new i'm : pulse to education in many of tht fl States, and to internal improvement I !. many others. An effort to exclude thu l { colonization of free blacks from beins