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sluners appdnttd tp value and select

 AO0,OU0 ACRES OF LANDS donated by the General Government to the State of Alabama for the improvement of the navigation of the Tennessee and other rivers, have selected and reported to the Land Office at Ccurtland, many tracts of forty acres, which IS the one half of the smallest legal sub division which can be recognized in the Gene ral Land Ofiice--And whereas, 1 am of opin- ion that the said Commissioners were not ail- thorized by the Act of the General Assembly prescribing their duties, to select lands other wise than by legal subdivsions-And where as, deem it eXpedent that other tracts be substituted before the first day of June next, when the lands will be subject to entry in the General Land Office. Now, therefore, deem it proper, and do hereby require the said Commissioners to convene in the town of Courtland, on the third Monday in May next, and proceed to select relinquished lands con- formally to legal subdivisions, equal to the aggregate quantity of those parts of subdi- visions already selected, having regard to the pre-emption privilege of occupants under the Act of Congress. GIVEW under my hand and the Seal of the Sate, this t7venty-second day Ahril, in the year ofo our Lord one Mou- sand eight Hundred and Mirty-one, and ot American ndehendence Me. .ffy.ffih.

 1 By the acting Governor,

 SAML. B. MOORE. JAEEs l. THORNTON, Secretary of State.

 For the information of the Commissioners, subjoin an extract from the Circular of the Commissioner of the General Land O6ice, to Registers and Receivers of the Credit Sys- tenn Land Offices, d tied 28th Dec. 1880.

 "After the 31st day of the present month, all renquished Lands, except those to which pre-emption rights shall have been prover and claimed under the 2d section of the relic law of 31st March, 1880, above referred to will be subject to the pre-emption privileg, granted by the act of 29th May, 1880, to an, person who cultivated the same in the yea 1929, and had possession thereof on the 29tl May, l830." SAML. B. MOORE.