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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 interrupted on account of the existence of certain land claims under the treaty of June 15, 1846, with Great Britain. Two tracts--one at Nisqualling about 3,600 acres--have been claimed under the 4th article of the same treaty, for the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company. "It is due to the people of Washington Territory that some decisive action should be taken. I am not advised that any portion of the tracts claimed are of any public or political importance to the United States, and I recommend that the Surveyor General of Washington Territory, under the supervision of this Department, be authorized by special enactment to decide upon the validity of the claims of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Co., and, if they are entitled to confirmation, to determine the location and boundaries of the farms a