The Company's preëmption was now authoritatively reëstablished, and some feeble and ostensible regulations were made to relieve the weavers who might suffer by it.
These articles are not under any formal monopoly; nor does the Company at present exercise a declared right of preëmption with regard to them.
Then one commissioner sends up to Washington, gets orders for a Western preëmption system, and with a grand hurrah the negroes were told to go and grab the lands.
Under the influence of this new Homestead Law, aided by the Preëmption Law, which remained in force, land titles were established in the Mountain States as rapidly as the Indians could be removed.
He held up the granting of homestead and preëmption titles for the purpose of examination and inspection, and demanded the repeal of the Preëmption Law.
Said Senator Scott of Indiana in 1841: "I consider the preëmption law merely declaratory of the custom or common law of the settlers.
The squatters of the Ohio Valley forced the passage of preëmption laws and these laws in their turn led to the homestead agitation.
The Virginia preëmption right of four hundred acres on the Western waters, or a thousand for those who came prior to 1778, was, in substance, the continuation of a system familiar in the Old West.
Nevertheless these must ultimately be paid for, with interest, and the concession of the right of preëmption to squatters made this easier.
Delegate Rice took up their cause with vigor and presently obtained the passage of an act granting preëmption right to all who might comply with preëmption conditions.
His influence contributed to the extension of the preëmption system to unsurveyed lands, a change which virtually opened all lands not Indian to settlement.
Benton took the lead in the discussion which followed, and he urged once more his preëmption and graduation bills.
However, without a free homestead law or even a preëmption system, on which Benton had long insisted, the West was filling up with people in an unprecedented manner.
To the Independent Treasury measure they added the preëmption and graduation bills, which commanded almost unanimous support in the West, and at last secured the passage of all three in June, 1840.
But the Maccabee, with the girl uppermost in his mind, believed that his cousin was inwardly resenting his preëmption of the pretty stranger.
In his search after cause for his cousin's attack upon him, he readily fixed upon Julian's rage at the Maccabee's preëmption of the beautiful girl in the hills.
Thus there were many who thought that they had been using their legal rights of preëmption when in reality they were only squatters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mption" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
