Report : the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the resolution, by Mr. Houston, instructing said committee to inquire into the expediency of compensating the State of Alabama for the sixteenth sections of land in said state, embraced within the limits of the Chickasaw cession, reportHouse of Representatives, Report 145, (United States. 28th Congress, 1st Session).Report instructing the Committee on Public Lands to inquire into the expediency of compensating the state of Alabama for the sixteenth sections of land embraced within the limits of the Chickasaw cession.