The Arkansas advocate., 1833-09-18

pnn-EMpTIoN LAW, granting the right oi pre-eInptinl to all persons who are now sess lied, O. who may hereafter settle, on any ol E the ;is.ar1roi,riato It.5licland# < ana tiit ey cry person who may wish 10 ayali hiln ea beTseif.. of fife benefits of such iaP, nay Re a,lfllorizea to file with inc Register oi me Land District ia which he or she may NIsil l.s.ss4sis. n s.seE!ealion, designating tla ! a,4aftaf section or igacl of iiaii 'lsit e'i she nay desire to locate,-~aild Il Inc iaaq Ba not surveyed, that the person aPPiytngg fo locate, may designate the same hy such natural e artificial marks as the cucuni- l staacos of the case may admit oi-aild to receive from the Register certificate all- 1 thofizii1g such location or settlement, and deseIq,tlve of' inc lands so located; and that the person making such location, bis or her llifi =f1r ftssiefs, be entitled to enter at the Land-oiliee for the DistEict in which the land may lie, previous to the same beng offered at public sale, at the Dttli53natal price of the public lands, quantity of land not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, corresponding with the legal subdivisions of the public surveys, to include his or her improvement.
 And your petitioners would further pray, fhilt, n inc event of their petition being granted granted fy your honorable body, tft tfssti sons applying for the benefit of such act who may reside on lands which nlay,-re. main 15nsilfyey6d for a lon9 period after 1 their circumstances will admit of their en- teri.lee and paying fer their lands, nay may be authorized to apply to tue Surveyors Gener- 1 al for an order of survey of the lands so se- l leeted for entry. and that he, the said Saf- Yeyor General, be required 10 cause the same to be surveyed in conformity with the public surveys, and return special plats thereof to the Land-ollices of the Districts in which the same may lie, and that the per sons entitled to prescriptions be authorized, thereupan, to pay and receive patents for the same, as in other cases on the entry ofpub- lie lands.
 Your petitioners would farther represent, that, in their opinion, law on the plan pro- posed by them, would have Q tendency to l put down those pestilential spectators who have stalked over the Territory of ArlSan- l tfess, to the laboring class of the eommuni- ty, for the last eighteen years, and who have uniformly taken protection under the tail of loose ended laws which merely invited the l laborDa class to benefit, but really made them U tantalus in favor of speculations. Your petitioners consider those unfair spec tllatofs, ln aInofaEsense, as mere drones. .in the hive ofnatnfe. They produce nothing. They neither assist In forming the hive, nor In collecting the honey. They merely live 10 deYonr, by arfogating undue advantages to themselves.
 Your petitioners are of opinion, that 1t is not consistent with true republican princi- pies, that the producing class of citizens should labor under the continued oppres- sion of a herd of lazy speculators; neither do they believe your honorable body will approve of such injustice, when the insecu- nty of their just rights is made apparent to l you. four petitioners are clearly of opin- lion, that the evils which they so justly conl- plain of, could be completely remedied and avoided by the passage of law on the plan
 4ote proposed by them, and they would I tTecolnInend that 1t be tramIneled with as few unnecessary restrictions and embar- .I issssifioats 5s may be conducive to the pub- lie interest, and that the improvements of pro-en1ptionefs be secured and guarded a. gainst the location of Heating claims of eE- efy nature and description, which have heretofore operated greatly to }lIo ifijalg of t31o H4ento1ioas class of citizens which 1t is eaF earnest desire to protect from Jae erasp EoI heariess spectators.
 Unlike all other pIe-enlption laws, the adopti9n of the plan proposed by us would fIaea llatteflag prospect before us. It cietes ol tile ceI2mahlly tnfoug0ut the 5fates and Ienltogics in which the public lands are situate, and would fire them with all ull- Hsilal degree Of animation from Canada to tho GQlf of Mexico. It would invite to set denent on our vacant lands the young and industrious emigrants from tue more dense- F populated States, as naturally as gravity tends to the centre.
 Your petitioners would farther represent. that the public debt of the United States be- ing already in effect extinguished, and the fcYonae of the nation amply sufficient to meet tue ordinary annual expenditures of the Government, and 10 furnish a surplus to be divided among the several States and Territories, they can see no reasonable ob- I lJecton to the passage of the law prayed for; nor could t III any event be calculated to einbafiass the Treasury, as no reduction of the mmmum price is solicited, nor indul- | Afafas.a 4t