STATE OF ALABAMA.
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STATE OF ALABAMA. }

 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Tuscaloosa WTHEREAS, it has been made known to w this Department, that the Commis- sioners appointed to value and select

 100000 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 Courtland, 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 Office--And whereas, l am of opin- ion that the said Commissioners were not au- thorzed by the Act of the General Assembly prescribing their duties, to select lands other wise than by legal subdivisions-And where. as, deem it expedient 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. GIHE.W under my hand and the Seal Q the Slate, his tzventy- -second day .1frii, in Me year of our Lord one Mou- sand eight Hundred aud Mirty-one, and of American Indehendenee the.f .fjfyJffth.

 By the acting 'GoDernor, .1.

 SAMI-. B. MOORE. JAEEs I. THORNTON, Secretary of State.

 For the information of the Commissioners, subjoin an extract from the Circular of the Commissioner of The GeneraI Land C6ice to Registers and Receivers of the Credit Sys- lem Land Offices, tied 28th Dec. 1830

 "After the 31st day of the present month, all relinquished Lands, except those to which pre-emption rights shall have been proven and claimed under the 2d section of the relief law of 31st March, 1880, above referred to, will be subject to the pre-emption privilege granted by the act of 29th May, 1880, to any person who cultivated the same in the year 1929, and had possession thereof on the 29th May, 1880" SAML. B. MOORE. DLANKS of various descriptions for sale Al L.