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kansas, will not, in all probability. on ac- count of the height to which the levee must be thrown, the great length thereof, and the now entire uselessness of the lands, be leVeed in the next century by individual en- terprize.

 The premises considered, your petition CTS propose to your honorable bodies, that fl you viii pass all act of Congress, grant ing apre-emption right to one million of a. cres ofland, to be selected in quantities of not less than one section. out of any of the unappropriated lands, at tho time of the passage of the act, lying in the area of eoun- try, between the Pine Bluffs on the Arkan- sas river, the mouth of Arkansas river, tie Mississippi 10 the mouth of Red river, and the mouth of the Ouachita river, that they will, F four years from the passage of the act, leyee. the South bank of the Arkansas river, from the commencement of the first low lands, below the Pine Bluffs, 10 the mouth of the Arkansas, and that the Ieyee so to be made by then1A shall be of sufficient height and strength, tn prevent the overflow of the Arkansas at all seasons of the year,. and your petitioners here offer to give such bond and security for the performance of their contract, as your honorable bodies shall require by the act.

 Your petitioners, therefore, pray the pas- sage ofan act, in conformity with the above proposition, and in duty bound viii ever pray, &c.

 Ds Ia F Roysaon, I'm. French,

 Joba J. Boloie, WaHer Dunn,

 1honas y. Lacy, Joel Johnson,

 Jaaes B. Robinson, .9lG'ed c. Doencs,

 Benjamin Taylor, Henry Johnson,