Whereas, Great difficulty is experienced by the settlers on the Public Lands, in obtaining such funds as are receivable in payment at the Land offices; and whereas that difficulty would be greatly diminished by giving the settlers an earlier notice of the time of bringing the lands into market; thereby enabling them to dispose of property, to convert their paper into specie, or otherwise procure the means of paying for their lands; therefore,

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested to use their endeavours[endeavors] to procure such an alteration in the practice of the Land Office Department, as to give six months public notice, previous to the time of bringing any of the public lands into market[.]