Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1841-10-14

BE IL enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives ofhe United Statesof finer
lea, in Congress assembled, That from and
after the tlirty-first day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty there be allowed and paid to
each of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Arkansas and Michigan, over and above what
each of the said States is entitled to by the
terms of the compacts entered into between
them and the United States, upon their atlmis-
sion into the Union, the sum of ten per centum
upon the nett proceeds of the sales of the
public lands, which, subsequent to the day
aforesaid, shall be made within the limits of
each of ssH States respectively: Provided,
That the sum so allowed to the said States,
respectively, shail be in no wise affected or di-
minished on account of any sums which have
been heretofore, or shall be hereafter, applied
TO the construction or continuance of the
Cumberland road, but that the disbursements
for the said road shall remain, as heretofore,
chargeable on the two per centum fund pro-
vided for by coinpacts with several Of the said
States.
SEC. 9. lad DC 1t further enacted, That ai-
ter dcducting the said ten per centum, and
what, by the compacts aforesaid, has hereto
fore been allowed to the States aforesaid, the
residue oftle nett proceeds-whch nett pro-
ceeds shall be asceriained by deducting from
the gross proceeds all the expenditures ofthe
year for the following objects: salaries and
expenses on account of the General Land Of
fee; expenses for surveying public lands;
salaries and expenses in the Surveyor gener-
abs office; salaries, commissions, and allow
ances to the registers and receivers; the five
per centum to new S;ates-of all the public
lands of the United States, wherever situated,
which shall be sold subsequent to the said
thirty first day Of December, shall be divided
among the twenty-siX States of the Union and
the District of Columbia, and the Territories
of Wisconsin, Iowa and Florida, according to
their respective federal representative popula-
ton as asccraincd by the last census, TO be
| applied by the Legislature of the said States
| TO such purposes as the said Legislature may
| direct Provided, That the distributive share
| to which the District of Columbia shall be
entitled, shall be applied to free schools, or
| education in some other form, as Congress
may direct: find prouided also, That moth
| ing herein contained shall be construed to the
prejudice offuture applications for reduction
| of the price of the public lands, or to the pre-
JUDGE of applications for transfer of the pub
lie lands, on reasonable terms, to the States
within which they lie, or to make such future
disposition of the public lands, any part
thereof, as Congress may deem expedient
SEC. g. find be it further enacted, That the
several sums of money received in the Treas
ury as the nett proceeds Of the sales of the
public lands shall be paid at the Treasury half
yearly, on the first Of January and July in
each year, during the operation of this act, to
such person or persons as the respective Leg
II. I'll, j
the Governor thereof in case the Legislatures
shall have made no such appointment, shall
authorize and direct to receive the same.
SEC. a. find be 1t further enacted, That a
nv sum of money, which at any time may be-
come due and payable to any State of the u
Mon, or to the District of Columbia, by virtue
of this act, as the portion of the said State or
District of the proceeds of the sales of the
public lands, shall be first applied to the pay
ment of any debt, due and payable from the
said State or District, to the United States
Prouided, That this shall not be construed tc
extend to the sums deposited with the States
under the act of Congress of twenty-thirC
June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entltlet
Gan act to regulate the deposites of the pub
lie money!" nor to any sums apparently due
to the United States as balances of debt:
, | growing out of the transactions of the Revo
, lutionary war.
SEC. S. find be 1T further enacted,s Tina
this act shall continue and be in force unit
> otherwise provided by law, unless the Unitet
States shall become involved in war with any
, foreign power, in which event, from the com
5 mencement of hostilities, this act shall b.
suspended during the continuance of sucl
: war: Provided, nerertheIcSs, That if, prio
to the expiration of this act, any new State o
States shall be admitted into the Union, Their
be assigned to such new State or States, tn
proportion of the proceeds accruing after thel
admission into the Union, which such Stat
or States may be entitled, upon the principle
= OF this ac:, together with what such State c
:. States may be entitled to- by virtue Of compact
= to be made on their admission into the Ur
10 ion.
r, SEC. 6. IND be II further enacted, Thi
3 there shall be annually appropriated for con
ia pleting the surveys of said lands sum NJ
less than one hundred and fifty thousand do
= lars and the minimum price at which III
public lands are now sold at private sale sha
: not be increased, unless Congress shall thin
A proper TO grant alternate sections along ii
line of any canal or other internal improy
mcnt, and at the same time to increase Il
minimum price of the sections reserved; al
- in case the same shall be increased by la
+ crccpt as aforesaid, at any time during &
- operation of this act, then so much of this q
H. as provides that the nett proceeds OF the sal
IS, Of the public lands shall be distributed amo
nd thp several Sfofes shall from and after the