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claims, it is all very we'll: the State will then get the lands and the government will have the benefit, in the meantime, of the sale ot other lands, that otherwise would have been selected by the Siate

 But 1t is scarcely necessary to say, that no question of pecuniary profit to the General Government, should, or does in any manner enter into, or control the decision of the question before us-far from it; on the con trary, 1t is the desire of the Executive to do every thing in its power, consistently with a sense of duty, to favor the just claims of the State, and facilitate its selections, and no- thing short of the conviction of the inadmis- slblllty of such selections, under the law, constrains me to dissent to such selections.

 l have the honor to be,

 very respectfully,

 your ob't servant,

 THOS, H. BLAKE, Commissioner.