The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-10-22

purposes of internal improvement; Pro-
rided, That TO each of the said states
which has already received giants for said
purposes, there is hereby granted no more
than a quantity of land which shall, TO-
gether with the amount such state has
already received rs aforesaid, make five
hundred thousand acres the selections
in all the said states TO be made within
their limits respectively, in such manner
as the legislatures thereof shall direct A:
and located in parcels, conlormably to
sectional divisions and subdivisions, of
not less than three hundred and twenty
acres in any one location, on any public
land except such as is or may be reserved
from sale by any law of congress or proc
lamation of the president of the United
States, which said locations may be made
at any time after the lands Of the United
States IN said states respectively shall
have been surveyed, according to existing
laws. And there shall be, and is hereby,
granted to each new state that shall here
after be admitted into the union, upon
such admission, so much land as, inclu-
ding such quantity as may have been
granted TO such state before its admission,
and while under territorial government,
| for purposes of internal improvement as
aforesaid, shall make five hundred thou
sand acres of land, to be selected and
located as aforesaid.
SEC. 8. mi be il further enacted,
That the lands herein granted to the states
above named shall not be disposed of at
a price less than one dollar and twenty
five cents per acre, until otherwise au-
thorlzed by law Of the United States I;
and the nett proceeds of the sales of said
lands shall he faithfully applied to OBJ
jects Of internal improvement within the
states aforesaid respectively, namely ::
Roads, railways, bridges, canals, and i'm
proyement of water courses, and draining
of swamps; and such roads, railways,
canals, bridges, and water courses, when
made or improved, shall be free for the
transportation of the United States mail,
and munitions Of war, and for the passage
of their troops, without the payment Of
any toll whatever
SEC. 10. INT be II firtbcr enacted,
That from and after the passage of this
act, every person, being the head Of a IA
mily, or widow, or single man, over the
age of twenty-one years, and being a citi-
zen of the Uuited States, or having filed
his declaration of iutcnliun to become a CT
tizen, as required by the naturalization
laws, who, since the first day of June, A.
D., eighteen hundred and forty, has made,
or shall hereafter make, settlement in
person on the public lands to which the
Indian title has been, at the time of such
settlement, extngushed, and which has
been surveyed prior thereto, and who shall
inhabit and improve the same, and who
has or shall erccta dwelling thereon, shall
be, and Is hereby authorized to enter with
the register of the land Office for the dis
trict in whicF such land may lie, byycgal
subdivisions, any number of acres not eX
ceeding one hundred and sixty, or quar-
ter section of land, to include the resid-
ence of such claimant, upon paving 10 the
United States the minimum price of such
land, subject, however, TO the following
limitations and exceptions: No person
shall be entitled to more than one pre-emp-
tive right by virtue of this act; no person
who is the proprietor Of three hundred
and twenty acres Of land in any state or
territory of the United States, and no per-
son who shall quit or abandon his resid-
ence on his own land to reside OH the pub
lie land in the same state or territory, shall
acquire any right OF pre-emptlon under
Walton, by any treaty, law, or proclama-
iion of the president OF the United States,
or reserved for salines, or for other pur-
poses no lands reserved for the support
of schools, nor the lands acquired by ei-
Their of the two last treaties with the Mi
ami tribe of Indians in the state of India
h"' Va WHICH MA uS dSl uIiCu vi WV w ,
andot tribe of Indians in the state Of Ohio,
or other Indian reservation 10 which the
title has been or may be eXtinguished by
the United States at any time during the
operation Of this act; no sections of land
reserved 10 the United States alternate to
other sections granted to any Of the states
for the construction ofany canal, railroad,
or other public improvement; no sections
or fractions of sections included within
the limits of any Incorporated town; no
portions Of the public lands which have
been selected as the site for a city or town (;
no parcel or lot of land actually settled
aud occupied for the purposes of trade
and not agriculture and no lands on
which are situated ahy known salnes or
mines, shall be liable to entry under and
by virtue Of the provisions Of this act.
And so much of the proyiso of the act Of
the twenty-sccond Of June, eighteen hun
dred and thirty.clght, or any order OF the