SUPPLEMENTARY BILL.
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 SUPPLEMENTARY BILL

 hiLL supplementary to the act entitled ssan act fof

 the admission of the State of Arkansas into tho

 Union and to provide for the due execution of hs,

 laws of the United States within the same and for

 other purposes.'

 De i eaacted by the senate and House oT Represeak atsres 2 he Unea Sfatcs of 1neica % Congress as semoted That the following propositions be, and tho same are hereby, offered to the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas for their free acceptance or rejectIon which, if accepted, under the authority grant ed 10 the said General Assembly for this purpose by the convention which framed the constitution of the sad State, shall be obligatory upon the United States:

 Fa7sf. That section numbered sixteen in every town ship, and when such section has been sold other wise disposed of other lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous may be- shall be granted to the State for the of the inhabitants of such township, for tho use of schools.

 Second. That all salt springs not exceeding twelve n number, with six sections of land adjoining 10 each shall be granted to the said Sate the same to be seec- ted by the General ssensbly thereof on or before tho first day of January thousand eight hundred and forty; and the same, when selected, to be used u der such terms, conditions and regulations as the Ge- neral Assembly of the said State shall direct: Provi- ded, That salt spring. the right whereof Is now ves- ed in any individual individuals, which may here- after be confirmed adiudged 10 any individual or individuals, shall, by this section, be granted 10 sad Sate find procided, also, That the General Assembly shall sell lease the same, any one tie for longer period ihan ten years, without the consent of Congress; and that nothing contained in the act of Congress entitled "an act authorizing he Governor of the Territory of Arkansas to lease the salt springs in said Territory and for other purposeso or in any other act, shall be construed give to the said State any further other claim whatsoever 10 any salt springs lands adjoining lhereto than to those hereby grant, ed.

 Third. That five per cent of the nett proceeds of nfI IunIS v,pf shall be sold by Congress, from and after the day { of next, after deductng all expenses incident to the same, shall be reserved for making public roads and canals within the said sate under the direction of the General Assembly thereof

 Fourth. That quantity of land not exceeding five sections be, and tho is hereby granted to tho said Sate Tn addition to the ten sections which have already been granted, for the suppose of completing the public buildings of the said State, Little Rock which said five sections shall under the direction of General As- sembly oi said State, be located, at any me in legal divisions of not less than quarter section, in such townships and ranges inc General Assembly afore- said may select, any of tue unapproprated public lands of the United States within the said State 1 TJtk. That the two entire townships of land which have already been located by virtue of the act entitled s'an act concerning seminary of learning the Ter rtory of Arkansas" approved the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seyen are hereby vested in and confirmed to the General As. semby of the said State, to be appropriated solely to the use of such seminary by inc General Assembly, Pyotided, That the five foregoing propositions herein offered the condition that the General Assembly Legislature of the said State by virtue of the pow conferred upon 1t by the convention which framed the constitution of the said State, shall provide by aii ordinance evocabe without the consent of the United States that the said General Assembly of said State shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil within the same by the United States nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the tile in such soil to the bona de purchasers there Of and that no tax shall be imposed on lands inc pro- perty of the United States; and that shall nonresident propreos be taxed higher than residents; and that the bounty lands granted, hereafter to be granted for military services during the late war, shal whilst they continue to be held by the paentees their heirs be exempt from any tax Iad by order under the authority of the State whether for tae county, town shp or any other purpose, for the term of three years from and after the date of the patents respectively.

 CoMMoDoRE HULL.--Ihis veteran commander fl,e pioneer of glory, furlough, mal ing tour in the Mediterranean with his family. At Malta where he ar- rived in February last, afew days after his proud ship sod Ironsdes had touched there he was treated by British officers i'll the fleet and aarrison-anoDg whom, by singular coincidence, Capt. Daeres in command of 4wth degree of courtesy and ceremony from the Admiral downwards, which royal person might have enyied. Dacres called on him almost every day, and showed him about lion. This magnanimous and worthy of British heart and gallant officer.

 The ralue of the s imported into the United Stafes in 1855, was sixteen millions and half of dollars