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AMERICAN STATE PAPERS.
DOCUMENTS
_	OF	THE-
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
IN RELATION TO
THE PUBLIC LANDS,
H30M THS
FIRST SESSION OP TIIE TWENTIETH TO THE SECOND SESSION OP THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS, INCLUSIVE:
COMMENCING DECEMBER 3, 1827, AND ENDING MARCH 3, 1829.
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SELECTED ANI) EDITED, UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS,
BV
ASBURY DICKINS, Secretary of the Senate, and
JOHN W. FORNEY, Clerk of the JIouse of Representatives.
VOLUME V.
WASHINGTON:
PUBLISHED BY GALES & SEATON.