When that is the ease then the public lands are subject to private entry for cash. If that policy were insisted upon it would be a defeat of the general jolicy of the Government in regard to the western lands. The policy as been to proceed so far as to survey the public lands. and not offer them for sale. so that they shall be subject to entry by private eatry. hut retain them for the actual settler. so that any emigrant can go upon the public lands of the United States surveyed and make a home there and the lands are not liable to be purchased by specn. lators who Lave money to invest and who desire to keep the lands in their own hands and not permit them to be open to settlement. If the words "and offered for sale" are continued in the section. it would leave the lands in that condition. So far as the lands in mining territory are concerned.
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