The PRESIDENT protempore. These changes will be made in the bill, if there be no objection. The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendments were concurred in. It was ordered that the amendments be engrossed and the bill be read a 3rd time. The bill was read the 3rd time, and passed. TOWN SITES. On motion of Mr. STEWART, the Senate, as in ComWhole, proceeded to consider the bill (S.No.532) for the relief of the inhabitants of cities and towns upon the public lands. The bill as introduced provided that when ever any portion of the surveyed public lands has been or shall be settled upon and occupied as a town site, and therefore not subject to entry under the agricultural precmption laws, it shall be lawful, in case such town shall be incorporated, for the corporate authorities thereof, and if not incorporated for the judge of the county court for the county in which the town may be situated, to enter at the proper land office, and at the minimum price, the land so settled and occupied in trust, for the several use and benefit of the occupants thereof, according to their respective interests; the execution of which trust, as to the disposal of the lots in such town, and the proceeds of the sales thereof, to be conducted under such rules and regulations as may be Prescribed by the legislative authority of the State or Territory in which it may be situated. But the entry of the land is to be made prior to the commencement of the public sale of the body of land in which it is included, and the entry is to include only such land as is actually occupied by the town, and to be made in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands authorized by the act of 24th of April, 1820; and where the inhabitants are in number 1less than 200 is to embrace not exceeding 320 acres; and in cases where the inhabitants are more than 200 and less than 1,000, not exceeding 640 acres; and where the number of inhabitants is 1,000 and over 1,000, not exceeding 1280 acres. Amendments were proposed to the bill by the ComPubLands; the 1st of which was in line 30, section one, to strike out the word “surveyed, ” and after “lands” to insert “ of the States of California and Ne vada;” so as to read: That wheneverany portion of the public lands of theStatesof California and Nevada hasbeen or shall be settled upon and occupiedtown sites, &e.