The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-07-20
BY AUTHORITY.
Lars Of the United States, passed at the
Ist Session Of the 24M Congress.
fPUBLIc No. AL

AN ACT supplementary TO the act entitled
An act for the admission of the State IF
Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for
the due execution OF the laws OF the United
States within the same, and for other pur-
poses"
BE il enacted By the Senate and House Of
Representatives. of the United States Of
AHericd ia Congress assembled, That in lieu
of the propositions submitted to the Congress of
the United States, by an ordinance passed by
the Convention of Delegates at Little Rock, as.
semblcd for the purpose ofmaklng constitution
for the State of Arkansas. which are hereby re-
ected and that the following propositions be,
and the same are hereby, offered 10 the Gene
raj Assembly of the State of Arkansas, for their
free acceptance or rejection, which if accepted,
under the authority granted TO the General
Assembly, for this purpose, by the convention
which framed the constitution ofthc said State,
shall be obligatory upon the United States:
First. That section numbered sixteen in ove-
ry township, nd when such section has been
sold, or otherwise disposed of, other lands
equivalent thereto, and contiguous as may
be- shall be granted to the State for the use of
the inhabitants of such township, foY the yrsc ST
schools
Second That all salt springs, not exceeding
twelve in number. with six sections of land ad-
Joining TO each, shall be granted to the said
State, for the of enid State, the sdnIe 10 be
selected by the General Assembly thereof, on or
before tie first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and forty and the same when
so selected, to be rsed under such terms, con-
ditons, and regulations, as the General Assem-
lily ofthe said State snail direct: Pr0pided,
That no salt spring, the right whereof is now
vested in any individual or ndividuals,or which
may hereafter be confirmed or adjudgsd to any
individual or individuals shall, by this section,
be granted to said State And prooided also,
That the General Assembly shall never sell or
lease the same,a any one time, for a longer
period than ten years, without the consent of
Congress and that nothing contained in the
act OF Congress entitled {" An act authorizing
the Governor of the Territory Of Arkansas to
lease the salt springs in said Territory, and for
other purposes" or in any other act, shall be
construed to give to the said state any further
or other claim whatsoever to any saltsprlngs or
lands adjoining thereto, than to those hereby
granted.
Iard. That five per cent Of the nett proceeds
of the sale of lands lying within the said State,
and which shall be sold by Congress, from and
after the day of next after deduct
ing all expenses incident 10 the same, shall be
reserved for making public roads and canals
within the said State, under the direction of
the General Assembly thereof.
Fourth. That a quantity of land not exceed
ing FIVE sections be, and the same is hereby,
granted to the said State in addition to the ten
sections which have already been granted, for
the purpose of completing the public buildings
Of the said State, at Little Rock which SAID
five sections SHALL under the direction of the
General Assembly &C the said State, be located,
at any time, in legal divisions of not less than
one quarter section, in such townships and
ranges as the General Assembly aforesaid may
select, on any of the unappropriated public
I.,1- Of shp IT Gtatps uifbin tho eaid STATE
Fifth. That the two entire townships ofland
which have already been located by virtue Of
the act entitled /" An act concerning semi
nary oflearning in the Territory of Arkansas"
approved the second of March, one tho-sand
eight hundred and twenty and hereby
vested IN and confirmed to The General Assem-
bly, Of the said State, TO be appropriated solely
10 the use Of such Seminary by the General
Assembly Prori3ed That the FIVE foregoing
propositions herein offered,arc OF the condition
that the General Assembly or Legislature OF tho
said state, by virtue of the powers conferred
upon il by the convention which framed the
constitution of the said State, shall provide, by
an ordnance irrevocable without the consent of
the United States, that the said General As
scmby Of said State shall never interfere with
the primary disposal of the soil within the
same by the United States, nor with any regu.
lations Congress may find necessary for secur-
ing the TILE IN SOIL 10 the t0H1 bde purchasers
thereof; and that no tax shall be imposed on
lands the property of the United States and
chat in no case shall nonresident prop ietors be
taxed higher than residents and that thr
bounty lands granted, or hereafter 10 be grant.
ed, for military services during the late war
shall, whilst they continue to be held by the
patentees or their heirs, remain exempt from
any tax laid by order or under the authority o.
the State. whether for State; county, township
or any oths purpose, for the term of three
years from and after the date of the patents
respectively.
JAMES r. FOLK,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
NJ. VAN BUREN,,
Vico-President Of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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