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54TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
1st Session. No. 1634.
SETTLEMENT BETWEEN TILE UNITE!) STATES AND THE
STATE OF ARKANSAS.
MAY 5, 1896.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the
Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. ME1KLEJOHN, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted
the following
REPORT:
- [To accompany S. 502.]
The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was reforred the bill
(S. 502) entitled A bill to approve a compromise and settlement between
the United States and the State of Arkansas, beg leave to submit the
following report, and recommend that said bill do pass with the follow-
ing amendment:
Strike out the period at the end of the bill and add the following:
upon the declarations and conditions hereinafter provided.
SEc. 2. That the amount of six hundred and sixty-two thousand nine hundred
and seventy-one dollars and thirty-five cents, with which the State is credited in
said compromise and settlement for one hundred and thirty-two thousand five hun-
dred and ninety-four and twenty-seven one-hundredths acres of indemnity land, at
the price of five dollars an acre, be, and the same is hereby, reduced to the amount
of three hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and
sixty-three cents, the value of said indemnity land at two dollars and fifty cents an
acre, the double minimum price of Government land; and the State of Arkansas is
hereby credited with the sum of three hundred and thirty-one thousand four hun-
dred and eighty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents for two hundred and sixty-five
thousand one hundred and eighty-eight and fifty-four one-hundredths acres of addi-
tional selected unadjusted swamp land, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre,
the minimum price of Government land, leaving the balance to be paid by the State
of Arkansas to the United States under said compromise and settlement one hundred
and sixty thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars.
SEc. 3. That the title of all persons who have purchased from the State of Arkansas
any unconfirmed swamp land and hold deeds for the same be, and the same is hereby,
confirmed and made valid as against any claim or right of the United States, and
without the payment of said persons, their heirs or assigns, of any sum whatever to
the United States or to the State of Arkansas.
SEC. 4. That the State of Arkansas does hereby relinquish and quitelaim to the
United States all lands heretofore confirmed, certified, or patented to the State which
have been entered under the public-land laws; and does hereby cede, relinquish, and
quitclaim to the United States all right, title, and interest under the acts of September
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, March second, eighteen hundred and fifty-
five, and March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, in and to all lands in the
State which have been heretofore granted, confirmed, certified, or patented by the
United States under any other acts, and the title to such lands is hereby confirmed in
the grantees, their heirs, successors, or assigns, anything in this act or any other act
to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That this act shall be of no force or effect
until the State of Arkansas shall have accepted and approved the conditions, limita-
tions, and provisions herein contained by an act of the general assembly or by an
instrument in writing duly executed by the governor under the authority conferred
upon him by the legislature of said State, and filed with the Secretary of the Treasury
and the Secretary of the Interior within one year from the approval of this act.
The compromise and settlement in question was made by John G.
Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, and Iloke Smith, Secretary of the
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