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16. At what places are other land-offices established?

17. How are the public lands obtained ?

18. How are those lands surveyed and set off?

19. How much of each township is allotted for the support of schools ?

20. How much land, west of the Alleghanies , has been set apart for theendowment of superior seminaries of learning ?

21. What is the whole number of acres of public land in 1832?

22. In what manner, and at what price, are the public lands offered for sale?

23. In what manner are the title deeds executed ?

24. What part of the United States are adapted to the cultivation of tobacco?—25. Cotton?—26. Rice?—27. Sugar?

28. In what section of the United States is gold found?

29. In what States are mines of iron ore worked?

30. From what country do the United States obtain copper ?

31. From what State is our lead chiefly obtained?

32. Mention in what States coal is found, and where is one of the largestformations in the world ?

33. How is salt chiefly obtained ?

34. Where do salt springs abound ?—35. What is said of the salt springs atSalina, in New York ?

36. Into how many branches is the legislative power of the United States separated, and what are they ?

37. What power is committed to the State governments ?

38. What power belongs to the Federal Government, or Congress ?

39. What allowance do Senators and Representatives in Congress receivefor their services?

40. In what way do members of Congress vacate their places ?

41. In what docs the Federal Judiciary consist?

42. How many Judges are there in the Supreme Court ?

43. What jurisdiction has this Court ?

44. What can you say of the State governments ?

45. Flow often do general elections, in the different States, occur ?

46. What is the shortest period for which the Senators serve in any of theStates ?—47. What the longest ?

48. Name the States where they serve one year.—49. Where they servetwo years.—50. Three years.—51. Where four, and where five years.

52. What religious qualification is necessary for office, m the different States?

53. From what is the public revenue derived?

54. What is the average produce of the customs ?

55. What sum is annually derived from the sale of public lands?

56. What is said of the Post Office establishment?

57. State the rates of postage, &c.

58. What does the debt of the United States consist of? W 7 hat the amountir 1832?

59. W'hat is the amount of the standing army ?

60. Of what does the militia of the United States consist? What the num-ber of militia ? Which State has the greatest number of militia ? Which next ?Which the third and fourth ?

61. How long are they bound to serve, when called into actual service?

62. What can you say of the navy of the United States ?

63. What is now the strength of the navy? Where are the navy-yards ofthe United States ?

64. Flow is religion supported in the United States ?

65. Mention the benevolent societies of a national character.

66. Which of these has the greatest income ?

67. Which next ? Mention the others in the order of their income.