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 & Little Rock, .Ar}c's, May 9th, 1S43

 R-On ny return to the seat of govern \, after an absence of some weeks, had honor to receive your communication of oth of April last, in answer to mine of 10th January, l843, on the subject of the ltlon Of improvements, under the provi- ns of the act of the 4th September, 1S41, atlng to the State 500,000 acres of land. ompanying that letter was the act of the lsiature of Arkansas, in relation to the ton of the 500,000 acres, with my letter instructions to the locating agents, Sc. n your answer to my letter, with the copy uhe correspondence with the Hon. Mir. yards, of Missouri, learn that you place law of Arkansas on the same footing with application of the State of Missouri, which ms the right to locate pre-emptions, as a ElQn of the grant to that State.

 l nave not misunderstood the position med by Missouri, from the correspond nope shall be able to show you at

 ,lid! the cases are not similar, and that uecision Ill the case of Missouri, (which lali not controvert, will not apply to the

 Ill our case, as will be seen by plain uhyarnlshed statement of the facts as they nat you may fully comprehend the whole pect, beg leave to refer you to the act of Legislature, and my instructions, which forwarded to you, and to the relinnuish- !. accompanying this letter, which, taken elher, Will present the facts as presented N gr 'he act of the Arkansas Legislature. lie otate, by her act, does not assume t,gh1 to locate pre-emptions, nor does executive claim it as right, only upon condition that the prc-emptor or settle, f"4aashes or assents to it in writing, signef two witnesses, and in no other event, as U VIII see by the blank form herewith en rom the foregoing statement it will b' Fh al once that the two eases are dissimilar