The Poles in the United States of America: Preceded by the Earliest History of the Slavonians, and by the History of Poland

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Kiderlen and Stollmeyer, 1837 - 196 էջ
 

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Էջ 191 - ... proof of such habitation and cultivation to the Secretary of the Treasury, and of the payment into the proper Land Office of the minimum price per acre, at the time of such payment, within the said term of ten years, patents shall be granted, as aforesaid, and not otherwise.
Էջ 191 - That immediately after the said thirty-six sections of land shall be surveyed and located in the manner prescribed in the first section of this act it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the said thirty-six sections to be divided in equal parts among the said two hundred and thirty-five Poles, by lot, under such regulations as the said Secretary may prescribe.
Էջ 190 - Each head of a family, or single person over twenty-one years of age at the present time of the mixed bloods, belonging to the Chippewas of Lake Superior, shall be entitled to eighty acres of land, to be selected by them under the direction of the President, and which shall be secured to them by patent in the usual form.
Էջ 190 - ... support. Although pilgrims in a foreign land, with nothing but the sad recollections of the past, and hopes for the future, we wish to live a life of active industry, and become useful to the country of our adoption. Since Providence in its inscrutable wisdom, has deprived us of the land of our birth, we wish to plant in these United States a second Poland, where our countrymen, the still unconquered sons of adversity, may congregate and prosper. With these views, we respectfully solicit...
Էջ 191 - ... of the Treasury to cause the said thirty-six sections to be divided into equal parts among the said two hundred and thirty-five Poles, by lot, under such regulations as the said Secretary may prescribe. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for each and Ten years...
Էջ 191 - Section 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain an authenticated list of the names of the aforesaid two hundred and thirty-five Polish exiles and cause the same to be filed and recorded in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land office.
Էջ 191 - Section 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for each and every of the said grantees to enter upon and take possession of the respective lots of land assigned to them and each of them; and after the expiration of ten years, the said grantees, respectively, shall be entitled to a patent for the lot of land assigned to them as aforesaid: provided, that the said grantees shall during the...
Էջ 190 - ... where our countrymen, the still unconquered sons of adversity, may congregate and prosper. With these views, we respectfully solicit your august body a grant of land under such provisions as will enable us to live by our industry, to rally round us such of our countrymen as may visit these shores, and become of use and of service to the people of these United States, and for such other aid and assistance as may seem meet. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. New York, April...
Էջ 178 - What, despotism for despotism ? The Poles have enough of it at home, without going so far to purchase it at the price of their blood.
Էջ 179 - be re-established, and shall this great nation resume its existence and independence ? Shall it spring from the abyss of the tomb to life again ? " But the only answer he could supply for this self-asked question was bitterly disappointing : " God only, who holds in His hands the issues of all events, is the Arbiter of this great political problem ; but certainly there never was a more memorable or a more interesting event.

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