Mr. Speaker. I wish to say that the creation of these new districts seems to be inevitable as the tide of emigration tends toward differeit sections of our unsettled territory. and the practice has been of late years to create two or three new land districts in the progress of a session of Congress. For a while. on account of their being an increased expense to the Treasury. there was a tendency to suspend the creation of new land districts. which resulted. of course. in great hardships to many settlers. I do not think objection should be made to the creation of a reasonable number of land offices in the settled sections of the country. but at the same time I must insist that. while we are creating at every session of Congress two or three new districts. a largo number of old districts ought to be dispensed with.
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