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Resolution by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri. 1836 327 (1836)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0029 and id is 1 raw text is: MEMORIALS-RESOLUTIONS. subsist between this state and the General Government-would also com- port well with what your memorialists believe, was the original intention of the General Government in relation to those lands, and a' your memorialists believe, would produce no inconvenience to the revenue of the General Gov- ment. Your memorialists would therefore respectfully request that Congress pass a law giving to actual settlers on all unappropriated lands a pre-emption right, to one entire quarter section of land to each individual who has settled or who may hereafter settle on said lands, to extend until the year 1845. To each of those who have settled on lands which have been inl market five years and which remain unsold, your memorialists would request a grant of the exclusive right to enter one quarter section of land at seventy-live cents per acre. To those who have settled on lands which have been reported not worth surveying, your meniorialists would request a donation of one quarter section to each actual settler. APPitovE, Dec. 16, 1836. To the COmgrss of the United Staes. Your memorialists the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, respectfilly represent that a strong desire has frequently been express- ed by those who are most deeply interested, to have annexed to the State of Missouri the point of land reserved for the benefit of the half breed Indians, situated between the Mississippi and De mnoines rivers, and bounded on the north by a (on tinuation of the northern line of the State of Missouri to the Mississippi river. The natural position of that district of country, renders its annexation to this State desirable and proper, it would prove highly advantageous to those who are by law the proprietors of the land, and very acceptable to the citi- zens of Missouri. Congress appears to have herctofore intended to have siid territory annex- ed to the State of Missouri, amnd in confbrmity to that intention have some years since enacted that transfers and conveyances ot said land should le cx- ecuLed according to the laws of Missouri. The people of Missouri in antici- pation of such annexation of territory have made an amendment to the con- stitution of the State providing for the extension of the bounlary of the State so as to include said territory, so soon as tie assent of Congress can be obtain- ed thereto. An act of Congress ceding said territory to the State of Missouci, would promote the interests of' the owners of' the soil, and of the State of Missouri, and would not prove injurious to the United States or any portion of its citi- Zeus. ArirtovEin, Dec. 22, 1836. It E SO LUT I ON S. WiaInuRs, the nnrth-western part of this MSate is rapidly inireasinig ill Iopulation, and who was, a great portion of the lands l) ing within that section of contiry, are yet be liongiig to tIle Genleral Go Vern- Inelt, and Whereas it is probable that till Territory comlionly callod the Platt coutntry will be added to this S ate, and consequently all very ouh to the quantity of publiv lands and population, and whereas the inhitahitints of that part of tile State, will necessarily labor under mnuch inconvenience ont account of the land oIlice being so remote from theo is it nw is; The'Ore, Be it resolecd, by the (enleral .isemiblq of the State fy lissouri, as follows: That our Senitors and Representatives in tie Congress of tie United States, he requestei to obtain tie passage of a law by Congress creating within tihe State o' Missoulri an additiona I Land District, in the north-western part thereof to be called the North-Western Land District. ArtRoVEue, Feb. 6, 1837. Wtts-e'As, the period for which the present chief magis rate of the United States, was elected to t.e presidency, will shortly expire, an1d whereas, it is the opinion of this General Asserubly, that the event- fil administration of President Jackson, has nteen such as to carry out, and perpetuate the principle of the democratic party as established, and practiscd upon by Mr. Jefferson; and it being the desire of 327

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