Excerpt from Speech of William Cost Johnson, of Maryland, on Resolutions Which He Had Offered Proposing to Appropriate Public Land for Educational Purposes, to All the States and Territories: Delivered in the House of Representatives, During the Morning Hour, February, 1838 Resolved, That a committee of one from each State be appointed by the Chair, to ih quire into the propriety of reporting a bill to appropriate, for the purposes of free schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.