Mr. ECKLEY, from the ComPubLands, reported back, with a recommendation that it do pass. House bill No. 315, for the relief of the inhabitants of towns and villages in the Territories of NewMexico and Arizona. The question was upon ordering the bill to be engrossed and read a 3rd time. The bill was read at length. The 1st section provides that any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of 21 years, and is a citizen of the U.S., or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such as required by the naturalization laws of the IlU.S.s, and who has never borne arms against the U.S. Government, residing in a towrr or village in either of the Territories of NewMexico or Arizona, and cultivatin lands of the U.S. in the vicinity of such town or village, and being the bona fide owner of the improvements thereon, is hereby declared to be, with respect to such land, entitled to all the benefits of the several sets of Congress now in force granting the right of preemption to settlers upon the public lands, and also of the act entitled “An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain, ” approved May 20, 1862, notwithstanding that such person shall not reside nor have resided upon such land. The 2nd section provides that in orderto secure the benefits of the foregoing section the actual resident in any of the towns or villages aforesaid shall establish to the satisfaction of the register and receiver, and according to such instructions as may be given by the ComrGLO, the fact that the party is an actual bona fide resident of at least 2 years in such town or village, desi nating the place of his abode and showing the connection with or contiguity of the improved tract to the place of residence, and that the cultivation of the improved tract is an essential means of his subsistence, and that the same has been cultivated and improved for a continuous period of not less than 2 years in the case of preemption, or of 5 years in the case of homestead, and that the tract under either preeniption or homestead, taken under the provisions of this act is merely an improvement, on which there is no actual residence, shall not exceed the smallest legal subdivision, or 40 acres. The 3rd section provides that the provisions of this act shall be considered as applying not only to those persons who shall be residents of towns or villages in said Territories of NewMexico and Arizona at the date of the passage of this act, but to those who may here after become so.