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speedily become a law. So much more importance did he still continue 
to attach to the law than to the land itself, that, by his supplementa mo- 
rial of 29th December, 1834, from Campeachy, your committee will have 
perceived that he was content to have the bill so modified as to concede 
solely the pre-emption rights to thirty-six occupable sections of land below 
©; and even now he would be willing to have the grant restricted to the 
pre-emption rights of thirty-six quarter-sections below 26° north latitude 
alone, in preference to the onerous conditions of the bill for six miles 
square, with but five years of time. If the committee, however, should 
think that the onerous conditions of the present bill are yet not sufficiently 
oppressive to guard against all possible speculation, the subscriber respect- 
fully suggests that, by limiting the strip of territory for his location to a 
line below 26° of north latitude, between Cape Florida and Cape Sable, ’ 
they will effectually cut off all possible chances for maritime ports or mari- 
ime cities. The only white man, in his knowledge, that has made a 
partial exploration of the southwestern extremity of Florida, was Doctor 
never dream of attempting to inhabit such a section of the country in any 
of the infinitely greater evils to which native Americans are exposed in all 
tries 
r obedient servant, 
H 
t 
ENRY PERRINE. 
To the honorable the Committee on Agriculture in the Senate of the United 
States of America: 
Wasurneron, D.C., February 24, 1838. 
GENTLEMEN: Slowly convalescing from a second attack of sickness, the 
correctness of the position of the subscriber, that without new staples pecu- 
liarly adapted to the peculiar soil, climate, and formation of southern Florida, 
its lands will never be worth a cent an acre. In the Alexandria Gazette, of 
this morning, there appears, under the head of news from Florida, a com- 
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