Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-11-20

Tor ny compacts with several OF the saiG
states.
Sec. 2 and be it further enacted, That
after deductlng the said ten per ccnttIm,
aud what, by the eonpacts aforesaid, has
heretofore been allowed to the states afore-
said, the residue of the nett proceeds
which nett proceeds shall be a~scertained
by deducting from the gross proceeds all
the expenditures of the year for the follow
ing obJects:-salaries and expenses on nc
count OF the General Land Office; expcn-
ses for surveying public lands; salaries
and expenses in the surveyor generals
Office; salaries, commissions, and aIlowan-
ces to the registers and receivers; the five
per centnm to new states-of the public
lands Of the United States, wherever stu
ated, which shall be sold subsequent to the
said thirty-first day of December, shall
be divided among the twenty-slx states of
the Union and the District of Columbia,
and the Territories Of Wiscosin, Iowa,
and Florida, according to their respective
federal representative population as as
ccrtained by the last census, to be applied
by the legislatures OF the said states to such
purposes as the said legislatures may d.
rect: Proridcd, That the distributiye
share to which the District Of Columbia,
shall be entitled, shall be applied to free
schools, or education 10 sotne other form, as
Congress may direct: And promIsd, also,
That nothing herein contained shall, be
construed to the prejudice Of future appli-
cations for a reduction of the price OF the
public lands, or to the prejudice of appii-
cations for d transfer of the public lands,
on reasonable terms, to the states within
which they lie, or to make such future
disposition of the public lands, or anv part
thereof, as Congress may deem expcdient.
Sec. 3 And be II further eaaclcd, That
the several sums Of money received in the
treasury as the nett proceeds Of the sales
of the public lands shall be paid at the
Ire stiry hall yearly, on the first day Of
January and July in each year, during
the operation of this act, to such person
or persons as the respective legislatures of
the said states and territories, or the 60
vernors thereof in case the legislatures
shall have made no such appointment,
shall authorize and direct to receive the
same.
Sec. 4 And be II flrthcr enacted, That
any sun of money, which at any t,nla
may become due and payable TO any > ate
Of the Union, Or to the District o. CoIum.
bia, 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
to the payment of any debt, due
and payable from the said district, to the
United States: Provided, That this shall
be construed to extend to the sums de-
with the states under the act of
of twenty-third June, eighteen
hundred and th,rty-six, entitled IAN act
to regulate the dej.osites of the public NO.
nor to any sums apparently due 10
the United States as balances of debts
growing out of the transactions of the
revolutionary war.
Sec. 5 And be ii further enacted, That
this act shall continue and be in force I'M
til otherwise provided by law, unless the |
United States shall become involved in
with any foreign power, in which
event, from the commencement of hostili-
ties, this act shall be suspended during the
continuance of such war: Provided, nerer-
That if, prior to the expiration
Of this act, any new state or states shall
be admitted into the Union, there be
assigned to sach e state or states, the
proportion of the proceeds accruing after
admission into the Uniop, 10 which
such state or states may be entitled, upon
he principles Of this act, together with
what such state or states may be entitled
by virtue of compacts TO be made on
heir admission into the Union.
Sec. 6 And be ii further enacted. That
here shall be annually appropriated tor
completing the surveys of said lands a
sum not less than one hundred and fifty /
dollars; and the minimum price
1t the public lands are now sold at private
'ale shall not be increased, unless Con-
yress shall think proper to grant alternate
sections along the line of any canal or
'ther internal improvement, and at the
anne time to increase the minimum price
If the sections reserved. and in case the
anne shall be increased by law, ercepf as
!tforcsaid. at any time during the opera
ion of this act, then so much of this act
IS provides that the nett proceeds of the
ales of the public lands shall he distribn-
ed among the several States shall. from
nd after the increase of the minimum
.riro tharoof i, ,,I L.a.r. t4..I,. =
'ull and of no effect, any thing in this act
o the contrary Notwithstanding: Provided,
That if, at any time during the existence
f this act, there shall be an imposition
f duties on imports inconsistent with the
of the act of March second. one
housand eight hundred and thirty-three,
ntitled San act to modify the act of the
onrteenth of July. one thousand eight
undred and thirty-two, and all other acts
IMPOSING duties or Imports" and beyond
rate Of duty fixed by that act, to wit,
wenty per cent. On the value of such i'm {
orts, or any of them, then the distribu-
on provided in this act shall be suspend |
and shall SO continue until this cause
f its suspension shall be removed: and
hen removed, if not prevented by other t
rovisions of this act, such distribution I
hall be resumed.
Sec. 7 And be It further enacted, That !
ne Secretary of the Treasury may con- q
any land district in which is situated T
le seat of Government of any one of the
tates, and may continue the land ofice i
! such district, Notwithstanding the GUAM
ty of land unsold in such district may Ii
OF amount to one hundred thousand acres, 8
hen, in his opinion, such continuance v
'ay be required by public convenience, C
in order to close the land system in t.