...your honorable body will not consider this request unreasonable, when they reflect that by the bill entitled " An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands," those settlers are allowed to select irom the lands possessed or cultivated by them a quarter section,...

...Isacks, from the Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill from the Senate, (No. 19) entitled "An act to grant preemption rights to settlers on the public lands," reported the same with amendments. Ordered, That the said bill be committed to the Committee of the...

...the claimants, as well those under, as those adverse to, the treaty provision. The last proviso of " an act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands," of 22d June, 1838, reserved from sale " any tract or tracts of land reserved to any Choctaw, urîder...