The Yazoo City Whig., 1845-05-23

! MINERAL LANDS OF THE UNITED STATES.
| -AtIhe late session of the Supreme Court
of the United States case was tried involy-
ling he question ofthe right Of pre- emption
! in individuals TO portions of the Public lends
containing known mines Oflead, etc. The
opinion Of the Court in the case was deliver
ed by Mr.. Justice Wayne, settling the fol-
lowing points:
L. That the act of Congress entitled san
act to create addiftonalland districts in the
Estates Of Illinois and Missouri, and in the
Territory moth Of the S a8e of illinois," ap-
proved June 26, 1894, does not require the
President OF lhe United States TO cause to be
offered for sale the public lands containing
lead mines situated in the land districts
created by said act.
2 That the said act does not require the
President TO cause said land, containing lead
mines, to be sold. because the 9Th section
OF The Sd March, 1907, entitled IAN act
I lmaking provision for the disposal Of the
; public lands situated between the United
States military contract and the Connecticut
3 reserve, and for other purposes is still in
4 force.
> 8. That the lands containing lead mines
s in the Indiana territory, or in that part Of it
3 made into new land districts by the act of
Q the 25th June, 1894, are not sntject, under
? : any of the PIE -emption laws which have been
passed by Congress, 10 p.e-empii0n by set
9 tiers upon the public lands.
y 4. That the 4th section of the act of 1891
I tdoes in no way repeal any part of the STA
5 section Of the act Of the Sd March, 1907, by
: which the lands containing lead mines wers
4 reserved for the future disposal OF the Uni-
IS ted States, by which grants for lead mine
tracts, discovered to be such before they may
= be bought from the United States, arc de-
: clared to be fraudulent and null, and whicl,
: authorized the President to lease any lead
> mine, which had been, o might be, discover.
;. ed in the Indiana territory, for term not
!. exceeding fve years.
!, s. Thatthe land containing lead mines in
!, the districts made By the. act Of 1884 are not
a Isubject to pFe-emption and sale under any
h of the existing laws of Congress.
a. 6. That digging lead ore ffom the lead
! mtnes upon the public lands in the United
!. States is such waste IS entitlesthe United
nj States to a writ of injunction TO restraip il
IS. STRANGE AND SERIOUS F,cr.-It is q
D. fact, vouched for by good authority that o.
10 all the Roman Catholic Bishops imported
H. to this country. not single one has eve
= yet become a citizen Of the United States
: put are all aliens. 1t is impossible for them
% in the very nature of their religion, to be
- : come so: the oath of supremacy to the Set
= of Rome excludes the possibility Of citizen
- ship. To become citizens, they must il
- !. the first place Telinqush their religion
! This matter ought is be looked to with
: greater degree of attention.-Mont. Eagle
-
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