Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-09-18
by AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES

TPpBLGC.-No. 10 !


TPunL1c-No. 10
AN ACT to aopropriae the proceeds of the sales Of II
public lands and to grant prescription fishi7
B- IL enactct By He Slt- aid House Of Nepfess"t1'e
If he Liled States Of .4Htcica CongreSs Gsse"1tsi
Tina, from and after thiyhrst day OF Decem0er IN I'll
year of oar Lord one eight bundled and ortyone
thero All paid each OF The states oi ono
IrJ,na Ulinos Alabuma Missouri, Mississippi, Louis
rama kansas, and Mirhigan AMI above "hlt eari
OF the entitled 70 by he terms OF the con"
pac entered into them and the tuited States pof
their admission Unon, the sum OF ten per cent?"
upo, proceeds OF the sales OF Inc pubic lands
which day afoicsti shall be ma lie "" N
in tine limits OF said States respecvey PToDfel
That the sum allowed sand States respectively
shall he in no affected diminished account ui any
sums winch been heretofore, saai be hereafter,
piled construrtion or continuance oil the Ihosan
road. disbursements for the sad road shall
main, heretofore char5eabie on the two per ced luna
provided by compacts win several o. tle sad states
See IND be FURTHER eIHcted, That after deIh;tin5
tie said per ccnu and what, by the comPaets aioe
said heretofore been allowed 10 ta states aforesaid,
the residue Of prDaodswhich nett proceeds shall
a sccrtaIicd dodIcln5 rom the gross proceeds all the
expenditures of tho year for the following objects;
salaries expenses account OF the General Land
Oice: expenses for surveying public lands saafte' ana
expenses surveyor generals Office salaries, conhs-
sons, and allowances 10 the registers and receivers; me
five per Sateol al! the pubic lands OF the
Ipited States situated, which shall be sold ubse
qucnt the said thirty first day of December shall be dV
ded among tho t~eny-SIN states OF 'ls '"l's ana 'ie
District o Columbia, and the Territories OF W isconsIa
Iowa, and Florida according 10 their eSpechEe federal rep
rescnatve population asccrtahtd by the last census 10
applied by Legislatures of the said states to such
purposes the said Legislature may direct: Povded,
That distrbutive share winch the District {" toin-
bia shall be entitled, shall be applied to free schools or 3D.
49, ,,o Thai nothing herein contained shall be coa-
s,rned to the prejudice Of future Applications fo7 Fc'u;
ton of price of the public lands or |" me PJ''
applications for transfer OF the puot Iahd-' Oh
rms 10 The States which they e or 70 MAKE such
future disposition of tho public lam or ay PARK l1's
"a Congress- may deem eXpeiIeni.
SEE 3 .3na be ii further eaaetef, That The several
s,s Of money received the Treasury as the nett pro-
ell of the saIes Of the public lands shall be paid At Lee
on j
in each year, during the operation OF tIs act' !" " per
- ~ ,orso,s "A the respective Legislatures of the said
States and Territories the Goyeenos thereof III case the
Legislatures shall have made 10 such aPpoithen snail
authorize and direct - receive Ihe san'o
Ser ) and be Il GtrGtcf enacted, That any sum OF
money which at any time may become due AMI payable 70
,y STATE of the Union the District OF Coun5ia. by
yue of ,ais act, potion OF the sa state or Dis
trict of the proceeds OF the sales OF the pubic an sa
he first the payne of debit due aa paya-
Die from the said State District, 70 the United states;
Provided, That this shall not be construed 70 eht'' me
sums deposited States under the act 81 Congress OF
twen,yhirl Juno, eighteen hundred and thry-sN, ent
tied .'An regulate the depo7.tcS OF ne Poc money!
nor to aay sums apparently Ir tho United States a
balances debts growing olt OF the transactions OF the
Revolutionary
So. Ind b. 1t f4rtier eagcted, That ths shall
continue and be in until o.he-wisa provided by law
ni.. the Halted tates shall involved in with
o,v f,rejrn power which from the
of ho,es shall to suspended daring the cohA-
uante of such war: Prori!ei, nevertheless, laat it, P7r
10 The expiration of this act, new STATE or states snail
be admitted in:n tnon there be sHaI - sues 2
State or States proportion Of the proceeds aca' a.
Ter lei n
States may be entitled, upon i12 pTie''l o. | a. ~
sethe with what such State States may he eatit.ea - ~
compacts be made their aa.ss4Ja sato tae
Union
Sec 6 Ind be it further enacted, That there shall bs
annually appropriated for completing the surveys of sad
sands less than hundred ani fifty thousand
oII,rs. anil the minimum price which the public lands
are now sale shall not be increased unless
Congress shall think proper alternate sections along
,hc line Of any canal other internal Improy and
time II Increase the mihinIum price 81 te sec
tions reservel AMI in the shall be ased by
,,5l l.,r f1 en-1tir
of this then much OF ths provides TINT me
melt proceeds public lands sao. be dis
sributed among several States SHALL from and the
Of the mnipum price thereof and become
utterly null aud effect, thing hjs tho
contrary Notwithstanding: Pori3ei That if, any :icc
during this shall he imnssl
of duties imports Inconsistent with the P7avsoas
Of the of March second, thousand e'sat hundred
and hirtv-three entitled s'An modify the act Of the
fourteenth of July, thousand eight hundred and thirty
two and other imposing duties Imports AMI
per cent value slrh Imports any them.
re-, ,b ;strihntinp provided i, this act shah be
and shall continue until this Of suspension sha!
be removed removed. it prevented by o;her
provisions such distributions shall be resumed
Sec Z .4nd Be further enacted. That the Secretary
Treasury continue land district N wncn :
situated of Government OF any one Of the States
and may continue land Office il such district n2tWlt
standing quantity Of land unsoI suTh district may
not amount ~ one hIn led thousand acres wle his
pinon, continuance may be required By public con-
vsnence or in the land system in such State
point. under ths pTorSccS OF the act On
that subject, approved twelfth June, one thousand osn'
hundred and forty.
Sec, g. And Be i.ftfer enacted Tia, there shall re
granted n State specified the first section q ths
five hundred thousand land for purposes Of IN
ternal improvements Irorifci That each of The said
States which haze already received an;s said purposes
mere IS hsrehy granted than quantity Of land
which shall Together with the such State has already
received asaoresaid, inbred thousand
selections III al OF the said States be made wi.a tels