Sec. 7. That involuntary servitude for the punishment of crime, whereof
the party shall have been duly convicted, shall in no wise be prohibited
by this act.
Sec. 8. That for all the purposes of this act, the jurisdictional limits
of Washington are extended to all parts of the District of Columbia not
now included within the present limits of Georgetown.
BILL GRANTING LANDS TO THE STATES TO MAKE RAILWAYS AND CANALS
REMARKS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FEBRUARY 13, 1849.
Mr. Lincoln said he had not risen for the purpose of making a speech, but
only for the purpose of meeting some of the objections to the bill. If he
understood those objections, the first was that if the bill were to
become a law, it would be used to lock large portions of the public lands
from sale, without at last effecting the ostensible object of the
bill--the construction of railroads in the new States; and secondly, that
Congress would be forced to the abandonment of large portions of the
public lands to the States for which they might be reserved, without
their paying for them. This he understood to be the substance of the
objections of the gentleman from Ohio to the passage of the bill.
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