Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-29
THE HOMESTEAD BILL.

The SENATE finally, on the Oath, adopted a sub
stitutc for the Homestead bill, presented by Mr..
Hunter, of Virginia. 1t carefully excludes all
colored persons from its benefits. Mr.. Chase Of
fercd an amendment excluding the word white. 1t
was lost, only eight Senators voting for it. The
bill grants presumption rights to actual settlers,
heads of families, or over twenty-one years of age.
A patent to be issued in five years, for which the
occupant is to pay from Sl,25, to 70 IL cents per
acre.
We copy the two sections Of the bill which con-
tain the homestead provision. 1t is better than we
anticipated from the conservative Senate, though
by no means what it should bel
SECTION S.-That any free white person who is
at the head of Il family, who has arrived at the age
of twenty.one years, and is capable of holding
lands under the laws OF the State in which the
lands lie, shall, from and after the passage of this
act, be entitled to enter one gu Intersection of va
cant and unappropria'ed public lands and no more,
which may Mt the time the application is made be
subject to private entry, or a quantity equal there
to, to be located in II body, in conformity with the
legal subdivisions of the public lands.
SECTION 9.-That the person applying for the
benefit of the eighth section of this act, shall, upon
application to the Register of the Land-Ofice in
which he or she is about to make such entry, make
ltluNlWNi CIV Stllu lcSiotCE itut HC 7 Sic Is the
head of a family or is twenty-one years of age,
aud that such application is made for his or her
exclusive use and benefit, and those especially NEIL
toned herein, and not, either directly or indirectly.
for the use or benefit of any other person or per-
sons wlomsoever; and, upon making the affidavit
as herein required and filing it with the Register,
he or she shall thereupon be permitted to enter the
quantity of land specified-provided, however, that
no certificate shall be given, or patent issued there
! for, until the expiration of five years from the date
of such entry and until the person or persons en-
titled to the land SO entered shall have paid for the
: same twenty-five cents per acre, or, if the lands
: have been in market more than twenty years,
twelve-and-a-half cents per acre.
4 Other provisions follow in case Of the death Of
S the settler before obtaining the patent, &c.
The SANDWICH ls~LANDs.-Late accounts repre
sent a treaty as nearly completed between the U
S. Commissioner and the Government of the Sand
wich Islands, by which the Government of tn,
: Islands is to be coded to this country. The poin
of difficulty in the treaty is said to be, that tn,
- Island Government desires immediate admission a
c a state, while the commissioner proposes its admis
u sion as a territory. Probably, as the Tribun
/ suggests this is to facilitate the introduction O
N slavery, Now, the Islanders might make IL FIRE
lconstitution, while delay might enable Washingto
management to fastcn slavery upon them unde
If territorial rule.
D. -
C. C. BURLEIGH.-ihe Standard says that C, {
e BaIeisk has been invited 10 deliver the address
before the literary societies Of oberliu College II
/ their oemmepcement In August next, Mr., BaI
d leigh has accepted tho invitation. Our Ohio col
It lego students show theig independence by sue
Invitations us this and III. one eYteaded D, NJ,
c Doaglsss by Hudson TVlloSe. We confess gu
!. nlea.urahle suryFls Al lhcm both