Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-03-01
From the New-Yorker.

The NEW LAND BILL passed its third
reading in the u S. Senate on Thursday
OF last week, by the following vote:
Yeas-Messrs. Benton, Black, Brown,
Buchanan, Cuthbert, Ewing of Illinois,
Fulton, Grundy, Hendricks, Hubbard,
King Of Ala, Linn, Lyon, Moor, Mouton,
Nicholas, Niles Norvell, Page Parker,
Rives, Robinson, Strange, Tallmadge,
Upton, Walker, Wright-27.
NGys-Messrs. Bayard, Calhoun, Clay
Clayton, Cri'tenden, Davis, Ewing of
Ohio, Kent, King Of Georgia, Knight,
Mexican, Morris, Prentiss, Robins Sewer,
Southland, Spence, Swift, Tomlinson, Wall,
Webster, White-23
The bill provides in substance
l. That no person shall be entitled to
enter by entry, or at auction, more than
two sections of the public land and pre-
vious to entry or 10 purchase, must make
and file with the Register and Receiver
ofthe land district an affidavit that the
lands are sought to be purchased for his
own use, and not in trust for another, nor
for sale or speculation; and that he has
made no contract, written or verbal, to
sell, lease, mortgage, or otherwise encum-
Der the land, or any part Of it; that he is
at least twenty-one years Of age, and has
not previously purchased or entered, un-
der this act, any public land, which, to-
gether with what he now buys, would
exceed two sections. He Gust then pay
the money, whereupon he gets receipt
for it from the Receiver, with the consent
Of the Register endorsed on it.
2. Within five years from the date of
his receipt he must prove, to the salts
faction of the Register and Rec eiver, by
the oaths of two competent and dislnter-
ested witnesses, that he has erected n
dwelling house on the land, and cleared
and cultivated at least one tenth of it ;
or that he has resided on it one year of
the five. He may then get his patent.
If he fails IN this proof he forfelts the
purchase money. If he dies within five
years, and his death shall be proved with
: in six years from the date of the receipt,
the patent is still to issue. ANY sale,
eose, or mortgage, or contract for sale,
=; &c, before the patent is void.
8. Presumption is allowed, on proof as
. above. that the applicant has actually oc-
1 cupied and resided on any tract OF the
pub bic land before the first of December
0 1886, and has cultivated any part OF II
n within the year 1886. There are several
$ guards to this section Of the bill TO cover
), reserved tracts, lead mines, &C., lands tc
D which the Indian title has not been ex
tinguished, and lands beyond the bounds
7 Of the States and Territories.
A ho n n
adjoining land, subject to private entry
e not exceeding one section. An affiIavl
r is required that the land is soug hit to en-
large his farm, and not for speculation
: &c. and the whole must not exceed two
u sections.
s. A parent, being a citizen of the U
IS States, may enter land for his children
but not over two sections in all and nj
patent 10 come till the child become o
l. age.
8. Purchase may be made in quarter
l. quarter sections; but no one shall ente
N more than four quarer-quarter section
l. not contiguous. All land to be taxabI
by state authority from the day ofpurchaSe
m 7. The law to continue TO the 3Oth
g June, 1910.
IN In SENATE.-MR MADIsoN's MANU-
he scRIPTs.-Saturday, FEB. ls.-TEe JON
'e. resolution Of the Library Committee, al
q thorizing the purchase Of the MS OF t,T Ia
Sc late Mr.. Madison, was taken up: I'm
d. resolution appropriates 10000 dollars fo
!. the purchase. After an eloquent eulog
by OF Mr.. Madison from Mr. Robbins, ana
ed few words from Mr.. Calhoun, in who
ig, ne avowed his intention to oppose the re-
To- olutlon at Its third reading, the JOINT RESI-
so. luton was ordered to be engrossed for
ng third reading. -
nd Monday, Feb. 2oth.-The joint resol'
81 tion authorising the purchase Of the MS
Of the late James Madison, was read
be- third time, and finally passed, yeas 3
mays IA. .,-,.- g.,