I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 12
               on the 5th February, on the subject of the Ordinance No. 11, 1869
               respecting "Preemption Claims."
               
            
            
               Under the circumstances stated to you I can understand that it may
               be expedient to
introduce
 introduce into that Ordinance any amendment providing a
               summary mode of enforcing payment of the purchase money of preemption
               claims which have been surveyed by the Government on the application of
               the claimants instead of leaving it to be recovered by the ordinary
               course of the Law.