Another proposed amendment debated (p. 213). Resolution and proposed amendments debated (pp. 215, 217). 21ST CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION (DEC. 7, 1829-MAY 31, 1830) HOUSE PROCEEDINGS [Committee on Education Motions: That 55th rule of the House be amended by adding "a Committee on Education." That after the 71st rule insert the following: "72. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Education to take into consideration all measures and propositions relative thereto, which shall be referred to them by the House, and to report their opinion thereupon; together with such propositions relative thereto, as they shall deem expedient."] Legislative action: Motion that resolution lie on the table passed (p. 55). PUBLIC LAND PROCEEDS FOR EDUCATION Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating the net proceeds of the sales of public lands, among the several States and Territories, for the purposes of education and internal improvement in proportion to the representation of each in the House of Representatives. Legislative action: Motion to consider resolution passed (p. 64). Motion that resolution lie on the table defeated (p. 64). Motion to amend bill (by striking out "for the purposes of education and internal improvement") defeated (p. 64). Motion to amend by adding word "Territories" passed (p. 64). Resolution debated (p. 103). Motion to further amend debated (p. 108). Motion that resolution lie on the table defeated (p. 108). Debated (pp. 118, 126, 130, 138, 140, 154, 159, 163). Debated and voted to decide on the resolution (p. 180). Passed portion of the resolution which ended with the word "Territories" (p. 183). Passed portion of resolution which contained the words "for the purposes of education" (p. 184). Defeated portion of resolution which contained the words "and Internal Improvement" (p. 185). Passed portion which stated "In proportion to the representation of each in the House of Representatives, with leave to report by bill or otherwise" (p. 186). Passed following resolution (p. 187): Resolved, That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands among the several States and Territories, for the purposes of education, in proportion to the representation of each, in the House of Representatives, with leave to report by bill or otherwise. Reported by Select Committee (H. Rept. 312) accompanied by bill No. 367, appropriating the net proceeds of the public lands to the use of the several States and Territories (p. 429). Bill No. 367 committed to the Committee of the Whole (p. 429). Bill presenting minority views of Select Committee also referred to Committee of the Whole House (p. 429). 68649-61- 3 21ST CONGRESS, 2D SESSION (DEC. 6, 1830-MAR. 3, 1831) HOUSE PROCEEDINGS [Committee on Education: Resolved, That a Select Committee on Education be appointed, to take into consideration all measures and propositions relative thereto which shall be referred to them, and to report by bill or otherwise.] Legislative action: Motion that bill lie on the table passed (p. 69). 22D CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION (DEC. 5, 1831-JULY 16, 1832) SENATE PROCEEDINGS PUBLIC LAND PROCEEDS FOR EDUCATION S. 179: A bill to appropriate, for a limited time, the proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands of the U.S. and for granting lands to certain States. Sec. 1-That after Dec. 31, 1832, there be allowed and paid to each of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana, over and above what they were entitled to upon their admission into the Union, the sum of 10 per centum upon the net amount of the sales of the public lands within the limits of the said States; which said sum of 10 per centum shall be applied to some object or objects of internal improvement within said States under the direction of their respective Legislatures. Seo 2-The residue of the net proceeds of all the public lands of the U.S., wherever situated, which shall be sold subsequent to Dec. 31, 1832, shall be divided among the 24 States of the Union, according to their respective federal representative population, as ascertained by the last census, to be applied by the Legislatures of the said States to such objects of education, internal improvement, colonization, or reimbursement of any existing debt contracted for internal improvements, as the said Legislatures may severally designate and authorize. . . . Legislative action: Resolution referred subject to Committee on Manufactures (p. 238). Bill accompanied favorable report (S. Doc. 128) by Committee on Manufactures (p. 238). Motion that bill be laid on table passed (pp. 238, 262). Motion to refer bill to Committee on the Public Lands passed (p. 274). Bill reported by Committee on the Public Lands with amendments, accompanied by a "special report" (p. 283) (S. Doc. 145). Debated (pp. 352, 362, 372, 375, 380). Motion to lay the bill upon the table defeated (p. 380). Debated (p. 384). Passed Senate (p. 394). HOUSE PROCEEDINGS PUBLIC LAND PROCEEDS FOR EDUCATION AND OTHER PURPOSES Resolved, That so soon as the public debt of the United States shall have been discharged, or such provision made therefor as shall release the public lands from the claims of the public creditors, the net proceeds of the sale of those lands shall be applied, under such regulations as the Legislatures of the several States and Territories may respectively provide, in the proportion of one moiety to popular education, and the other to the removal of such free people of color thereof, as may desire to emigrate to Liberia or Africa, or elsewhere beyond the limits of the United States and of their Territories. Resolved, That, effecting the preceding purposes, the proceeds of the sales of the public lands be distributed among the several States according to their respective numbers. Legislative action: Motion that these resolutions be laid on the table passed, (p. 145). S. 179: Received from the Senate on July 3, 1822. Legislative action: Motion to postpone consideration until 2d session passed (p. 1066). Motion to reconsider vote for postponement defeated (p. 1079). 22D CONGRESS, 2D SESSION (DEC. 3, 1832–MAR. 2, 1833) SENATE PROCEEDINGS PUBLIC LAND PROCEEDS FOR EDUCATION S. 6: A bill to appropriate, for a limited time, the proceeds of the sales of the public lands of the U.S., and for granting land to certain States. Legislative action: Referred to Committee on the Public Lands (p. 26). Reported with an amendment (p. 53-Jan. 3, 1833). Debated (pp. 63, 70, 73, 76, 80, 85, 104, 107, 109, 111, 114, 119, 123, 124, 125). Motion to recommit with instructions to strike out certain words defeated (p. 137). Passed Senate (p. 138). Bill, as amended in House, passed Senate (p. 229). Sent to President (p. 230). [Not approved by President.] HOUSE PROCEEDINGS PUBLIC LAND PROCEEDS FOR EDUCATION AND OTHER PURPOSES S. 6 (as received from Senate): An act to appropriate, for a limited time, the proceeds of the sales of public lands of the United States, and for granting land to certain States. Legislative action: Committed to Committee of the Whole House (p. 239). Debated, and reported with amendments (p. 459). Amended bill passed House (amendment, section 2, line 10, struck out words: "objects of education, internal improvement, colonization of free persons of color, or reimbursement of any existing debt contracted for internal improvements, as the said Legislatures may severally designate and authorize" and inserted "purposes as the Legislatures of the respective States shall deem proper") (p. 460). Senate concurrence requested (p. 461). Message of Senate concurrence to amendment received (p. 461). Presented to the President (p. 470). [See Senate Proceedings.] 24TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION (DEC. 7, 1835-JULY 4, 1836) SENATE PROCEEDINGS PUBLIC LAND PROCEEDS FOR EDUCATION S. 42. A bill to appropriate, for a limited time, the proceeds of the sales of public lands of the United States, and for granting land to certain States. [This can be considered an educational measure only insofar as it offered States the opportunity to use the funds for the promotion of education. The purpose of the bill, however, was "financial" rather than educational. An Act to regulate deposites of money and to distribute surplus revenue to the States]. Legislative action: Referred to Committee on Public Lands (p. 66). Reported with amendments (p. 123) (S. Doc. 89). Debated (pp. 158, 221, 222, 227, 289, 298, 300, 302, 303, 308, 310, 319). Motion to recommit and amend defeated (p. 319). Debated again (pp. 321,330). Passed Senate (p. 331). [Also, see "House Proceedings."] HOUSE PROCEEDINGS PUBLIC LAND PROCEEDS FOR EDUCATION S. 42 (Received from Senate-see above). Legislative action: Received from the Senate (p. 1035). Debated (pp. 1050, 1065). Amended and passed House (pp. 1065-72). Received message from Senate concurring with bill, as amended (p. 1077). Approved by President, June 23, 1836-(p. 1096). [5 Stat. 55.] [Repealed by Act of July 4, 1840, Ch. 40; Act of Aug. 13, 1841, Ch. 7.] 24TH CONGRESS, 2D SESSION (DEC. 5, 1836–MAR. 3, 1837) HOUSE PROCEEDINGS PUBLIC LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION Resolved, That a Select Committee, to consist of one member from each State, be appointed, whose duty it shall be to inquire into the justice and expediency of making to each of the thirteen original American States, together with each of the States of Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee, such grants of the public lands, for the purposes of education, as will correspond in a just proportion with those heretofore made in favor of the first named States and Territories; and that the said committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise Resolved, further, That the inquiry extend to all the States. Legislative action: Debated (pp. 168, 170, 178, 202). Motion that resolutions do lie on the table passed (p. 202). 25TH CONGRESS, 2D SESSION (DEC. 4, 1837–JULY 9, 1838) HOUSE PROCEEDINGS PUBLIC LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION Resolved, That a committee of one from each State be appointed by the Chair, to inquire into the propriety of reporting a bill to appropriate, for the purposes of free schools, academies, and the purposes of education, an increased portion of the public lands, for the benefit of all the States and Territories. Legislative action: Debated (p. 488). Debated and modified to read as follows: 1. Resolved, That each of the United States has an equal right to participate in the benefit of the public lands, the common property of the Union. 2. Resolved, That each of the United States in whose favor Congress have not made appropriations of land for the purposes of education, are entitled to such appropriations as will correspond in a just proportion, with those heretofore made in favor of other States. 3. Resolved, That the Committee on report a bill making increased appropriation of the public lands, the property of the United States yet unappropriated, to all the States and Territories of the United States for the purposes of free schools, academies, and the promotion and diffusion of education in every part of the United States. Debated (pp. 498, 519, 610, 613, 639, 646, 649, 689). Committed to Committee of the Whole (p. 689). 26TH CONGRESS, 2D SESSION (DEC. 7, 1840–MAR. 3, 1841) PUBLIC LAND PROCEEDS FOR EDUCATION Motion that the memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, remonstrating against the mode and price of disposing of the public lands, be referred to the Committee on Public Lands, with instructions that the said committee report a bill to grant prospective pre-emptions to settlers on the public lands, and to reduce the price to settlers according to the price of said lands. Legislative action: Motion to amend memorial (by striking out all after the word "instructions" and inserting "to report a bill to have the proceeds of the sales of the public domain divided among the States in an equitable ratio, to be used by the States for internal improvements, education or any other purpose, as may be deemed wise by the several States receiving said distribution") introduced and debated (pp. 107, 109). Motion that the subject lie on the table defeated (p. 109). Motion to postpone consideration passed (p. 110). Motion on "making the same the special order for that day, to take precedence of all other business," defeated (pp. 110-111). |