THE PUBLIC LANDs.-MR. cLAY's BILL

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THE PUBLIC LANDs.--MR. CLAY's BILL.

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 Farther uiolotions of fthe compacts of cession.

 In our last number we showed that NIT. Clay's Bill, instead of being in execution of the compacts of cession begins with a pal pable u,oiafaon of one of their fundamental conditions.

 We shall now show, that in other re- spects, 1t Is equally in derogation of those compacts os understood by doth portieS at tts tame of their execution.

 After unceremoniously giving away in it's first section, one-eighth of the net proceeds of the sales of public lands, the Bill pro- ceeds thus to dispose of the balance in its second section, viz:

 ".9nd be it furtfer enacted, That after deducing the said twelve and half per centum, and what by the compacts afore- said, has heretofore been allowed to the States aforesaid, the residue of the net pro- ceeds of the public lands of the United States, wherever situated, which shall be sold subsequent to the said thirty-first day of December, shall be divided among the twenty-four States of the Union, according to their respective federal representative po- pulation, as ascertained by the last census, to be applied by the Legislatures of the said States, to such purposes as the Legislatures of the said respective States shall deem proper: Prorided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to the preju- dice of future applications for the reduction of the price of public lands, or to the pre- judice of application for transfer of the public lands on reasonable terms, to the States within which they lie, nor to impair the power of Congress to make such future disposition of the public lands or any part thereof as it may see fiji"

 Not content with giving one-eighth of the proceeds of the lands to fewof the States, without the least regard to "the common benefit" the bill in this section, totally dis- regards the rule of distribution of tite re- mainisg ssuen-eighths prescribed by Me compacts of cessiol, and prouides q new onel The rule prescribed by the compacts di- rects, that the common benefit shall be shared by the several States, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditures" but this section of the bill provides that the money shall be divided "according to their respec- tive federal representative population. ."- Here, therefore, Is as palpabie violation