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House Committee on Ceding Public Lands to the Government of the United States, Public Debt - 1st R.S. (1846)

Committee Members

Volney Erskine Howard, Chair
William Cazneau
Evans Mabry
Jamerson Noble
William Turner Sadler

Charges

Inquire into the expediency of ceding to the Government of the United States the public lands of Texas, for a just equivalent, for the purpose of providing means to liquidate the public debt.

Take into consideration the propriety of classifying and defining the public debt, and, of appointing a board to ascertain and allow the same.

Notes

Appointed 3/18/1846, pursuant to resolution by Howard; Howard listed as Chairman in committee report 3/1/1846 (House Journal, 1st R.S., pp. 185, 302-322).

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