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of the eompaets. IS If the bill had enacted that they should henceforward be void and of no efIectl

 Indeed, the ground may be boldly as4 stunned and invincibly maintained, that by this bill, the compacts with the States by which alone the United States became the owner of all the Public Lands east of tho Mlsslsslppi, are entirely abrogoted. fit were private transaction, and the grantee of property were so utterly to disregard, and so flagrantly violate the conditions of the grant, Court of Equity would set it aside altogether, and restore the property to the gfantor.

 As we understand the motive and condi- tons of the sessions made by the different states, II never entered into the conception of either of the parties, that the States, in ther separate characters, were ever to re- ceWe back from the United States, either tqS ci2ands granted, or any portion oi ,heir 1ss-ss-s sfss 4ho s.s .fal tso- yernnent and the several States n 10 these sessions, as we'll under the Confeds eration as the new Constitution. ev;nces. that the States were expected to be benefit ted not by receiving lands for money from the United States, but by c reelection of'fhc ehdrSes or tares upon them for the payment of the public debt, and accomplishing the objects of the Union. Indeed. the r,le prescribed Tn the grants for governing the distribution of the common benefit, is in- compatible with any other conclusion.

 When the grant of Virginia was made. tho Articles of Confederation were the fi,n- dainental law of the United States. Tho eighth article of that instrument was in the following words, viz:

 All charge of war, and all other expen- ses that shall be incurred for the common defence and general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assem- bled, shall be defrayed out of a common Treasury, which shall be supplied by the several States in proportion to the value of all land within each State granted to or sur- veyed for any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall De estimated according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled l shall from time to time, direct and appoint.

 "Ihe taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislature of the several States within the time agreed upon by the united States m Congress assembled.u Under this provision, it was the practice of Congress, first to ascertain the gross a. mount which 1t was desirable to raise by taxation, and then to divide 1t among the States according to the value of their lands respectively, informing each of the amounts which it became it's duty to raise for the service of the United States.

 After being raised by the States, it was rait: iii;o tine common Treasury, and thence dlsbursed under the authority of Congress. In page 457 of the Journals of Congress, vol, 3, is found the following apportionment of Sl0,oo0,0 900 among the several States,