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February 8, 1839 in The Charlotte Journal

Domestic News February 8, 1839

The Charlotte Journal

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Graduation Bill, Public Lands, Senate, Land Prices, New States, Old States

Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

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The Graduation Bill before the Senate proposes lowering the price of public lands to 37 cents per acre after market offering, limited to 640 acres per individual, affecting over 70 million acres. It benefits new states but is opposed by old states as potential robbery of the public domain.

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Graduation Bill.—The bill now before the Senate, to graduate the price of the Public Lands, proposes that 37 cents be the lowest price, but limits the quantity to be entered at the price, by any one individual, to six hundred and forty acres. The effect of this measure would be to bring all the lands, after having been offered in market, to the price of 37 cents an acre. The quantity of land now in market, and subject to the operation of the bill, is upwards of seventy millions of acres. It would no doubt suit the new States to get the public lands at this price or for nothing. But the old States have a deep interest in this public domain, and if their Representatives will faithfully reflect the wishes of their constituents all such schemes for robbery and plunder would be rejected at the threshold.—Ral. Register.

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Graduation Bill Public Lands Senate Land Prices New States Old States

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The bill now before the Senate, to graduate the price of the Public Lands, proposes that 37 cents be the lowest price, but limits the quantity to be entered at the price, by any one individual, to six hundred and forty acres. The effect of this measure would be to bring all the lands, after having been offered in market, to the price of 37 cents an acre. The quantity of land now in market, and subject to the operation of the bill, is upwards of seventy millions of acres. It would no doubt suit the new States to get the public lands at this price or for nothing. But the old States have a deep interest in this public domain, and if their Representatives will faithfully reflect the wishes of their constituents all such schemes for robbery and plunder would be rejected at the threshold.