The Poles in the United States of America: Preceded by the Earliest History of the Slavonians, and by the History of Poland |
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Page 195 - That immediately after the said thirty-six sections of land shall be surveyed and located in the manner prescribed in the first section of this act it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the said thirty-six sections to be divided...
Page 194 - Each head of a family, or single person over twenty-one years of age at the present time of the mixed bloods, belonging to the Chippewas of Lake Superior, shall be entitled to eighty acres of land, to be selected by them under the direction of the President, and which shall be secured to them by patent in the usual form.
Page 165 - Therefore I, the King of Poland, enervated by age, and sinking under the accumulated weight of afflictions ; and also we, the members of the diet, declare that, being unable, even by the sacrifice of our lives, to relieve our country from the yoke of its oppressors, we consign it to posterity.
Page 195 - SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for each and every of the said grantees to enter upon and take possession of the respective lots of land assigned to them and each of them ; and, after the expiration of ten years, the said grantees, respectively, shall be entitled to a patent for the lot of land assigned to them as aforesaid...
Page 194 - States by the orders of the Emperor of Austria, thirty-six sections of land, to be selected by them under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury in any three adjacent townships of the public lands which have been or may hereafter be surveyed, situated within the limits of the State of Illinois or the Territory of Michigan.
Page 195 - ... proof of such habitation and cultivation to the Secretary of the Treasury, and of the payment into the proper land office of the minimum price per acre, at the time of such payment, within the said term of ten years, patents shall be granted as aforesaid, and not otherwise.
Page 190 - I feel great satisfaction, General, in answering your letter. Your wishes shall be accomplished. With the help of the Almighty, I trust to realize the regeneration of the brave and respectable nation to which you belong. I have made a solemn engagement, and its welfare has always occupied my thoughts.
Page 180 - What, despotism for despotism ? The Poles have enough of it at home, without going so far to purchase it at the price of their blood.
Page 186 - I love your nation; during, the last -sixteen years I have seen your soldiers at my side in the fields of Italy, as well as those of Spain. I applaud all that you have done ; I sanction the efforts you wish to make ;-, I will do every thing in my power to second your resolutions. •—I have always used the same language since my first appearance in Poland ; I must add here, that I have...
Page 181 - be re-established, and shall this great nation resume its existence and independence ? Shall it spring from the abyss of the tomb to life again ? " But the only answer he could supply for this self-asked question was bitterly disappointing : " God only, who holds in His hands the issues of all events, is the Arbiter of this great political problem ; but certainly there never was a more memorable or a more interesting event.