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| the value of such imports, or any of them, then
the distribution provided in this act shall be
suspended, and shall SO continue until this
cause of its suspension shall be removed; and
when removed, if not prevented by other pro-
visions of this act, such distribution shall be
| resumed
SEC. z. .anM be IL further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury may continue any
land district in which is situated the seat OF
Government of any one Of the States, and
may continue the land Office i'm such district,
Notwithstanding the quantity of Land unsold
In such district may not amount to one hun
drcd thousand acres, when, in his opinion,
such continuance may be required by public
convenience, or in order to close the land sys-
tenn in such State at convenient point, under
the provisions of the act on that subject, APP
proved twelfth June, one thousand eight husi-
dred and forty
SEC. 8. find be 1t further enacted, That
there shall be granted TO each State specified
in the first section of this act five hundred
thousand acres of land for purposes of inter-
nal improvement: Provided, That to each of
the said States which has already received
grants for said purposes there is hereby gran
ted no more than a quantity of land which
shall, together with the amount such State
has already received as aforesaid, make five
hundred thousand acres; the selections in all
of the said States to be made within their linn
its respectively in such manner as the Legis-
latures thereof shall direct; and located in
parcels, conformably to sectional divisions
and subdivisions, of not less than three hun
dred and twenty acres in one location, on any
public land except such as is or may be re-
served from sale by any law of Congress or
| Of thn Drooilont Of JInitaJ
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 hereby is granted to each
new State that shall be hereafter admitted in
to the Union, upon such admission, so much
land as, including such quantity as may have
been granted to such State before its admis-
sion, and while under a Territorial Govern
ment, for purposes of internal improvement rs
aforesaid, shall make five hundred thousand
acres of land, to he selected and located as a.
foresad.
SEC. 8. find be 1t further enacted, That the
lands herein granted to the States above nam
ed shall not be disposed of AT price less than
one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, I'M
| til otherwise authorized by law ofthe Unit
ed States; and the nett proceeds of the sales
of said lands shall be faithfully applied TO OBJ
jects of internal improvement within the States
aforesaid respectively, namely Roads, rail
ways, bridges, canals and improvement of wa
ter-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 pass
age of their troops, without the payment o.
any toll whatever.
Sec. 10. find be IL further enacted, Tha
from and after the passage of this act every
person, being the head of a family, or widow
or sing lie man, over the age of twenty-ont
years, and being a citizen fthe United States
or having filed his declaration of intention t.
become citizen, as required by the naturali
cation laws, who, since the first day of June
A. d., eighteen hundred and forty, has made
or shall hereafter make, a settlement in person
on the public lands to which the Indian It'll
has been, at the time of such settlement, eXtin
guished, and which has been, or shall hav
been surveyed prior thereto, and who shall
inhabit and improve the same, and who ha
or shall erect dwelling thereon, shall be
and is hereby, authorized to enter with tn
register of the land Office for the district il
which such land may lie, by legal subdivi
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hundred and sixty, or quarter section c
land, to include the residence of such claim
ant, upon paying to the United States the nj
nimum price of such land, subject, howeve
to the following limitations and exceptions
No person shall be entitled to more than on
pre-emptive right by virtue OF this act; n
| person who is the proprietor of three hundre
, and twenty acres of land in any State or Tel
ritory of the United States, and no person VIII
2 shall quit or abandon his residence on his ow
land to reside on the public land in the sam
State or Territory, shall acquire any right (
r pre-emption under this act ; no lands include
e in any reservation, by any treaty, law,
g proclamation of the President of the Unite
r States, or reserved for salines, or for 9th
e purposes; no lands reserved for the suppo
s of schools, nor the lands acquired by either
r the two last treaties with the Miami tribe
S Indians in the State of Indiana, or which IN;
= be acquired of the Wyandot tribe of India
i'll the State of Ohio, or other Indian reseTv
It tons to which the title has been or may
i extingushed by the United States at any ii!
Ut during the operation of this act; no secuo
J. of land reserved to the United States altern;
e to other sections granted to any OF the Stat
II for the construction of any canal, railroad,
k other public improvement; no sections
10 fractions of sections included within the Ii
G. its Of any Incorporated town; no portions
le the public lands which have been selected
I'd the site for city or town; no parcel or lot
", land actually settled and occupied for the p
,r. nose of trade and NOT agriculture and