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 FEDERAL RELATIONS OF OREGON 297 ern expansiveness was manifest in Fulton's amendment to the original proposition that every white male inhabitant of the age of eighteen or over should have 640 acres of land ; Fulton (Arkansas) succeeded in increasing this so that every married man should have 160 acres additional for himself, 160 acres for his wife, and 160 acres for each child under the age of eighteen which he might have or "which (might) be born within five years afterward." No other change was made and the essential provisions, when the bill was ordered en- grossed for the third reading were these : The President was authorized and required to provide for the erection of five forts from the Missouri and Arkan- sas Rivers to the mouth of the Columbia. A land grant to inhabitants as indicated above was included. The President was authorized to appoint two additional Indian agents to superintend the interests of the United States in Indian affairs "west of any agency now estab- lished by law." An appropriation of $100,000 was made to carry the act into effect. The second section provided that the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the Supreme and District Courts of the Territory of Iowa should be extended over "that part of the Indian Territory 1ving west of the present limits of the said Territory of Iowa, and south to the 49th degree of north latitude, and east of the Rockv mountains, and north of the boundary line between the United States and the Republic of Texas, not included within the limits of any state: and also, over the Territories comprising the Rocky Mountains and the country between them and the Pacific Ocean, south of 54 degrees 40 minutes of north latitude, and north of the 42d degree of north latitude;" provided this jurisdiction should not extend to British subjects arrested on a criminal charge within the limits as outlined west of the Rockies, so long as the same should remain free and open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain. Section three provided the details relative to carrying into effect the extension of the laws in the territory. When the bill, as reported with amendments from the Senate as in Committee of the Whole, was before the Senate for third