North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-01-01

On motion the hmunication was. sent 70 Inc
Senate with proposition e PRINT. 80. a.;n,
A message was received from the Senate, agreelng
q The dropositio of the House to appoint select
committee of four from each House to make suitable
arrangements for the Inauguration OF Hon. David ..
Reid az Governor of the State. Messrs. wilson,
Steele Scott and Gordon, appointed House
branch of said committee
Mr. Rayner from the committee on Internal I'M
movements reported the bill to incorporate the Ashe
Vile and Greenyille Plank Road Company, and re-
commended its passage. Mr.. Rayner made state
mept of the precise objects of the bill, and It passed
it's second reading.
The special order for the day was then taken up,
being the bill to afford relief 10 purchasers u
kee lands.
resent constituency, whose condition is different
from the constituencies OF any other gentleman on mis-
oor and he regretted that they had ADLER advocate
than himself. He could not complain. however. of
the acts of the Legislature since he hat been MEM
Der of this House. He went into brief history of
the Cherokee lands. They were acquired by treaty in
1885 and surveyed in 1886, when the Legislature APP
pointed commissioners to .superintend the sale. The
amount sold in 1888 was 100000 AGREES. For this
land the State had paid $s6O3l 49, and sold it for up
wards of 1882 900. Of this sum, $4,000 had been
paid down, and S92, 900 more up to I84l-makinR
an aggregate of upwards of $l39.OOO. In 1874 the
Legislature appointed a Board of Commissioners to
make new valuation. since which time $4,000 had
been paid. At the second sale, the land had been
valued high, that Al still remained unsold
He asked now that those who trying to pay their
debts should be granted the relief already given
to the insolvent debtors. The lands had been pur-
chased in times Of great speculation, and it was sup
posed that gold mines existed in abundance. On the
action of this Legislature depends the prospects of
Cherokee county If the grievances of those people
were now redessed, nothing more would be heard of
Cherokee. He acknowledged that the people of that
county were poor, and believed that they were totally
unable TO pay their debts to the State. bill similar
to this had passed through the Senate two years ago.
and had been lost in the House the last day of the
| session. He hoped this bill would pass.
Mr. Saunders, of AXE, said that he had been of
the Commissioners TO settle with the Indians in Ma
! con county. He paid the Indians one half of what
the white people paid for the lands, and he thought
! that about double their real value.
Mr.. Winston thought this bill of considerable
importance. The contracts had been made between
the State and private individuals in which the latter
had got the worst of the bargain. The individuals
asked to be excused from the performances of their
part of the contract. The Legislature ought to be
extremely cautious in this matter If it was estab
llshed as principle would lead to perpetual legs
lation. Purchasers of swamp lands may have made
bad bargains, and they would also ask for relief. If
individuals had got advantage of the State, they
could not have been required to pay anything more.
The House was too thin 10 act important a
measure at this time. Yesterday he thong ut kind
| OF a snap judgment taken in the of the
county of Jackson. He hoped The friends of the bill
would the proprety of hesitating It pressed
to vote now, he should he compelled to vote against
It. He moved to postpone its further consideration
| for week.
| Mr.. Hayes said he was risking much in taking
the vote the State did. A number of the
friends of the bill absent, and he desired also
to have full House, but he feared if the bill de-
layed. it would be difficult get it up, when other
more important business should before the
House. He said that although decidedly friendly to the
Jackson county BILL he had not pressed it yesterday,
and had voted to lay the bill on the table.
! Mr.. Siler stated few facts that he knew. Geor-
ga had divided her Indian lands into sections and Civ
en- them away. Tennessee had put nominal price
on hers. North Carolina had sold her lands at
travaganiy high price. 1t generally cost emigrant
mnch to improve hi land. the land and improve
ments would sell for afterwards. The Cherokee peo-
pie now totally unable discharge their obliga-
tons to the State.
! An indispostion being manifested on the part of
the House to taking the vote to-day, motion Of Mr.
Avery, the House adjourned,