Resolved by the House of Representatives , (the Senate concurring herein,) That our Senators in Congress be, and they are hereby, instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their best exertions to procure, the present session of Congress, the passage of a law by that body establishing a permanent system of pre-emption rights, by which the actual settler upon the lands of the Government of the United States shall have the exclusive privilege of purchasing, at Congress price, any quarter section of land upon which he may have made an improvement: also, that they use their exertions to procure the passage of a law providing that the public lands hereafter be sold in limited quantity to actual settlers only, and that a reasonable time be allowed such settlers to pay for the same.2