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WABASH AND ERIE CANAL LANDS.
Mr. BELL, stating that the bill [H. R. 329] to provide that where patents have been issued for Wabash and Erie Canal lands and been lost, and while mistakes have been issued for lauds sold prior to 1847, and where continuous possession and full judgments have been made, the Auditor of State may issue patents, is a bill very much needed, and on his motion the bill was read twice by title, under a setting aside of the Constitutional restriction, by a two thirds vote, the third time by sections, and passed by yeas, 38; nays, 0, with a Committee amendment.
