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Resolutions Relative ot the Public Lands.
1. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representative by the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
ania, in General Assembly met: That our senators in Congress be and they are hereby instruc-
ted, and our Representatives requested to resist any and all arrempts under what prerence soever the
same may be made to deprive the people of this State of their just proportion of the common in-
to introduce and advocate the passage of a bill providing for the distribution of the proceeds of the
same among the several States in the ratio of their federal representative population under the census
of one thouseand eigh hundred and forty.
2. Resolved, That our Senators be further introduced, and our Representatives requested, to vote
for such re-modification or adjustment of the Tariff as may increase the Revenue derived from imports
equal to the wants of the National Government, so that at no time hereafter, under any pretext
whatever, shall any money arising from the sales of the Public Lands, be used by the General Gov-
ernment.
3. Resolved, That the Governo be requested to cause a copy of these resolutions to be forward-
ed to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress; and to the Governors of the several
states, with a request that the same may be laid before their respective State LEgislatures.
WM. A CRABB,
Speaker of the HOuse of Representatives,
CHARLES B. PENROSE,
Speaker of the Senate,
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