...respectfully report, that on the 4th day of September, 1841, the Congress of the United States passed an act entitled, " an act to appropriate the proceeds of...the public lands, and to grant preemption rights;" by which there was granted to the State of Michigan, as also to other Slates, five hundred thousand...

...84-100 acres, being a part of the lands granted by the United States to the state of Illinois, by an act of congress, entitled "An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and grant preemption rights," approved September 4th, 1841, and did pay into the treasury of the state...

...Independent Treasury; an act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States ; an act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights ; and an act making appropriations for various fortifications, for ordnance, and for preventing and...

...Schools. SEC. 7. That the five hundred thousand acres of land to which the State is entitled under the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of Public Lands and grant Pre-emption rights," approved September 4th, 1841, shall he granted to the State...

...and the five hundred thousand acres of land, to which the state is entitled by the provisions of an act of congress entitled ' an act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights,' approved the fourth day of September, one thousand...

...in writing, as to whether the 500,000 acres of land, granted to the State under the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to appropriate the proceeds of the sale of public lands and grant pre-emption rights," approved September 4th, 1841, do n«w belong to...

...hundred thousand acres of land, to which the State of Wisconsin is entitled by the provisions of an act of Congress entitled 'An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of public lands, and grant pre-emption rights,' approved the 4th day of September, 1841, and also the...

...five hundred thousand acres of lands ; to which the State is entitled, by the provisions of an act Congress, entitled ' an act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights,' approved the fourth day of September, one thousand...

...considered, and, therefore, to them we now direct our attention. The act of Congress of September 4, 1841, to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands and to grant preemption rights designates in its first section several States to which ten per cent of the net proceeds of the sales...

...Lands. SEC. 7. That the five hundred thousand acres of land to which the state is entitled under the act of congress entitled "An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of public lands and grant pre-emption rights," approved September 4th, 1841, shall be granted to the state...