Report and resolves concerning the public lands of the United States [electronic resource].
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| Other title: | U.S. public lands, Jan. 1839 LLMC online. Resolves in relation to the public lands of the United States. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Massachusetts?] :
[publisher not identified],
[1839]
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| Series: | Senate (Series) (Massachusetts. General Court. Senate) ;
1839, no. 17. |
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| Item Description: | 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." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (22 pages). |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (LLMC Digital, viewed December 4, 2023). |