Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on sundry petitions from purchasers of public lands, praying to be allowed further time for making their payments
Subtitle: and also, on a resolution instructing the committee to inquire into the expediency of prolonging the time of payment on purchases made prior to the first April 1809, and of reducing the price, and sub-dividing the quarter sections, in future sales
Series: [Report / 12th Congress, 2nd session, House of Representatives]
Publisher: A. & G. Way, printers
Published: 1812
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Public lands
Notes: Reports on petitions from purchasers of public land, praying for further time for making payments; settlers on frontier, finding no market for produce at present, find themselves unable to make payiments; committee is unfavorable to the system of credit for land purchases and proposes to abolish it.

Title from cover.

"December 2, 1812. Read, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Friday next."

Report submitted by Rep. Jeremiah Morrow.

Poore, B.P. Descriptive catalogue of the government publications of the United States, p. 96

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