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s of Arkansas should be reserved in perpetuity, and therefore recommends that the disposal of the four sections reserved be provided for by appropriate legislation. As to the grant of land to the State of Iowa for the improvement of the Des Moines river, he says: "Having recommended to the Committee of Public Lands of the Senate, in June last, a relinquishment to the State of all title remaining in the United States to the 272,572 acres of land erroneously listed and certified under the Des Moines grant, I have directed a suspension of immediate action under the railroad grants, so far as the two conflicting claims interfere. The lands along the upper portions of the Des Moines river, not embraced in any of the certified lists, which have been surveyed for four, five and six years, but withheld from market on account of the claim of the State, have recently been proclaimed and offered at public sale." The progress of the public surveys in the Territory of Washington has been