Acts & Resolutions Passed at the ... Session of the 1st-31st. General Assembly ...

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1856

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Página 104 - An Act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States, to reclaim the ' swamp lands' within their limits/' approved September 28, 1850, (No.
Página viii - State to select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, from the lands of the United States nearest to the tiers of sections above specified, so much land in alternate sections or parts of sections as shall be equal to such lands as the United States have sold or otherwise appropriated, or to which the right of pre-emption has attached as aforesaid; which lands (thus selected in lieu of those sold, and to which pre-emption rights have attached as aforesaid...
Página 97 - That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law...
Página ix - ... have attached as aforesaid, together with the sections and parts of sections designated by odd numbers as aforesaid, and appropriated as aforesaid) shall be held by the State of...
Página 48 - ... to prescribe the limits within which wooden buildings shall not be erected or placed or repaired, without permission, and to direct that all and any buildings within the fire limits, when the same shall have been damaged by fire, decay or otherwise, to the extent of fifty per cent, of the value, shall be torn down or removed, and to prescribe the manner of ascertaining such damage.
Página 98 - And that our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives in Congress be requested, to use their utmost exertions to prevent the acceptance and confirmation of any such Constitution.
Página viii - Congress assemblcd^Th&t there be and is hereby granted to the State of Iowa, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads...
Página viii - ... but in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said roads are definitely fixed, sold any section or any part thereof, granted as aforesaid, or that the right of pre-emption has attached to the same...
Página x - That the United States mail shall be transported over said! roads, under the direction of the Post Office Department, at such price as Congress may, by law, direct : Provided, That until such price is fixed by law, the Postmaster General shall have the power to determine the same.
Página ix - And be it further enacted, That the said lands hereby granted to the said State shall be subject to the disposal of the Legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other...

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