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drop title Petition of a number of settlers on the public lands in Illinois. Praying that their pre-emption rights to said lands may not be affected by the grant to the "Polish exiles." January 24 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.

1840 · 11650 — Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1840. 8vo. 7 pp. <br><br>Concerns the so-called "Polish claim" to lands in Winnebago county Illinois. Government document: 26th Congress 1st Session. Senate. 118. Removed from a nonce volume; inner edge a little irregular; two holes in inner margin not touching text. Light spotting in inner margin. Title-page with number inked in upper right corner by an early hand. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books