Report and resolves concerning the public lands of the United States.

[Massachusetts?] : [publisher not identified], [1839]

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U.S. public lands, Jan. 1839

1 online resource (22 pages).

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Includes resolutions entitled "Resolves in relation to the public lands of the United States." The document begins: By the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, that the public lands of the United States, whether acquired by conquest, cession, or purchase, are emphatically the property of the several States of the Union, and that they ought therefore to enure to the use and benefit of all the States, in just proportions, and cannot be directly or indirectly appropriated to the use and benefit of any particular State or States, to the exclusion of the others, without an infringement of the conditions upon which cessions from States were expressly made, and a violation of the spirit of our national compact, as well as the principles of justice and sound policy." (Page 21).
Includes a table showing the net proceeds each state would receive from the sale of public lands, plus the additional amount states in which the lands are situation would receive, under a bill entitled "An act to appropriate, for a limited time, the proceeds of the sales of the public lands of the United States, and for granting lands to certain States."

Online resource; title from PDF title page (LLMC Digital, viewed December 4, 2023).

Resolves in relation to the public lands of the United States.

Print version: Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on Public Lands. Report and resolves concerning the public lands of the United States. [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1839] (OCoLC)46397773

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