TWENTY-FrRsT CONGRESS.

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 SENATE.

 Msach 5.-Mr. Benton, from the Com mittee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred a resolution of the Senate of the 18th Dec last last, and and several petitions from the inhabitants of Missouri on the subject, reported bill to authorize the mounting and equipment of q part of the United States Army; which was read, and ordered to a second reading. .Mareh f0.-The bill from the H. of R. to continue in force an act authoriz- ing certain soldiers in the late war, to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu there of, and for other purposes, was eonsid- cred in committee of the whole, and Of dered to a third reading, without amend ment.

 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

 Feb. 22.-Air. Backs, from the Com mittee on the Public Lands, to which was referred on the ith jan. memo rial of the Legislature of the Territory of Arkansas, reported the following bill, which was twice read and committed, A BILL to provide for surveying certain

 lands in the Territory of Arkansas

 Be t enacted, s,c. That the Surveyor Ge- neral of the 5tates of Illinois and Missouri, and Territory of Arkansas, be, and he IS here oy authorized to contract for, and pay, at the rate offour dollars per mile, for the surveying of such of the puDlic lands in the T serTitoTy of Arkansas, which iie on the rivers, and are so thickly covered with cane, that contracts for executing the surveys thereof, by suitable persons, cannot be made at the existing price P,orided, That said Surveyor General shall certify to the Commissioner Of the General Land Office, from time to time, the quantity of land, for the surveying ofwhich, the additional com pensation allowed by this act shall be con tracted for, and the reasons, in his opinion, requiring the increased allowance. MT. Johnson, of Kentucky, from the Committee on the Post-oflice and Post Roads, made the following report: l The Committee on the post-office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the memorial of the Legislature of the Ter ritory of Arkansas, praying for an ap- propriation of three thousand dollars, to make post road through the public lands in the Territory of Arkansas, from yillemoat, in Chicot county, to Little Rock, the Seat of Government in said Territory, report:

 That 1t appears to them, from care ful examination of said memorial, ac- companied by explanations from the de- legate of that Territory, that Villemont, in the county of Chicot, is near one hun- dred and fifty miles from Little Rock, and that, at this time, there is no road connecting those two places; and that the intermediate country (being but re- gently acquired of the Indians is owned exclusively by the United States, and is fertile, and well adapted to the cultiva- ton of cotton. It farther appears, that therei is no point on the Mississippi river nearer than one hundred and fifty miles of Villemont, in said county of Chicot, from which road into the interior can be made, free from annual inundatlon; and that the citizens of Arkansas, ur- aided by an appropriation from the Ge- neral Government, cannot, without sub- jecting themselves to more inconyen- fence, and mourning greater expense than they well can bear, make the road so much desired. Thememorialists are of opinion, that three thousand dollars will be sufficient to open road along which the mail can be transported, and along which also, emigrants can travel to the intermediate public lands ali of which have been but recently surveyed, and are yet for sale. It is farther said, lthat the citizens of Arkansas carry on all their trade in the States of Missis- sippi and Louisiana; and that it is very important to them to keep a regular communication with their rc. rc.pective commission merchants in Natchez and New Orleans, from whence they desire to obtain the earliest information of the varying prices of those articles in which lthcy deal. That, to those States, faom