Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-05-08
Total since 1853.
Total before 1853.
34,os5.5sa
5s.ooo.ooo
Grand total Of the sum snh.

1ranu total OF tho sum sub.
ject to distribution. S87, 100000
There is not land Distributionist in
the whole State Of Virginia who will not
confess us liberal in assuming the mag.
ni6cent sum of $87. .ooo, 900, as the sum
their own principles would make listrk.
butable among the States. 5spi
The amount being thus fixed. we come
next 10 examine the mode Of distribution.
We shall be as liberal in this matter we
have been in all others. We shall hot
insist upon any plan of our own for par.
ceiling out the money. We shall again
borrow from the Land Distribu,ionists.L
What is their own distribution actfof
lS4l. Here is that act - sam
Distribution Act Of Sept. 8. is4i.n
SEQ. !. That. from and after the thir-
ty>hrst day Of December, in the year
l84l. there be allowed and paid to each
of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois.
Alabama. Mississippi. Missouri, Louisi-,
ana, Arkansas. and Michigan. over and
above what each State is entitled toby
the terms of the compaets entered into
between them and the United StateS1up.
on their admission into the Union,the
sum OF ten per centum upon the nett pro-
ceeds Of the sales Of the public1i lands.
which, subsequently to the day Aforesaid,
shall be made within the limits ofleasiiot
said States respectively. - 1oil
Sec. 9. That after deducnng the said
ten per centum and what, by the COM
pacts aforesaid. has heretofore been d.
lowed to the States aforesaid, the residue
OF the nett proceeds-which nett proceeds
shall be ascertained by dedueting from
the gross proceeds all the expenditures OF
the year. de-, for the following objeeB.
salaries and expenses on account OF the
General Land Office; expenses for SUR
yeyihg public lands: salaries and expen.
ses in the Surveyor Generals Office; sal.
aries, commissions and allowances 70 the.
registers and receivers; the fire per cent.
um TO the new States--of all the public
lands Of the United States, wherever Sit
uated. which shall be sold subsequent To-
the 3lst of December, I84I, shall be di.
vided among the twenty.six States Of the
Union and the District Of Columbia, and
the territories of Wisconsin, Iowa and
Florida, according to their respective fed.
eral representative population as ascer.
tanned by the last census, 10 be applied
by the Legislatures OF the States 70 such
purposes as the said Legislatures may di.
rect: Ps0videl. That The distributiye-
share to which the District shall be enti.
tied shall be applied TO free schools. or
education in some other form. as Con-.
gross may direct: and 3,ropi4lsa, also. that
nothing herein contained shall be con.
strued TO the prejudice Ofipturs agplica-
tons for reduction Of the price 0fetho
public lands. or the prejudice Of aplIs4-
lions for transfer OF the public lands on
reasonable terms, TO the States Wighih
which they lie, or to make such fpture
disposition of the public Iands, or any
part thereof as Congress may deem eape-
dent. ~
Nay, We shall be more liberal even than
this Act ofthe DistributioniStst themselves.
We shall not insist on allowing 70 /" The
States in which the lands lie, = mentioned.
in this act. al Ten per centum Of the nett
proceeds Of sales;" for these States. 10 ALL
conscience. have got enough, and though
the Land Distribntionists themselves are
willing to 9i0e still more to Tic daaghisrs of
the korse Leeeh-we are not. = sl,s
We shall be still more niggsrdlypnthi
point. We are not wiling 70 give even
the FIRE per eentum additional; stipend 20
the 80 aeas States" provided Tor in! this set
in addition 70 the len per eentum. before
given. This i've per cent. Wonld amount
nearly four millions and a half of dollars.
We. shall cut tbis Iargess down amaieriaI-
y; and shall deduct but u percent from
the fund, 70 defrsy necessary e1penses;
and assume as the dissribntiye fund slhe
= ! u n s.na