In Senate of the United States, February 12, 1818. Mr. Wilson submitted the following motion for consideration [electronic resource] : Resolved, that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending the time allowed, by the "Act To Provide for Designating, Surveying, and Granting, the Military Bounty Lands," approved May 6, 1812, to noncommissioned officers and soldiers ..