Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-08-24

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.iture Of the purchase money specified
j said receivers receipt, and the title
) the United States; and any one swear
ng falsely, to obtain, for him or her.
elf, or for another, the benefit of any
,rovision Of this act, shall be guilty Of
'erjury; and any one procuring anoth-
r to swear falsely to obtain for any one
he benefit Of any provision ofthis act,
hall be guilty Of subornation of perjury.
Sec find be it further enacfed,
That any person who is now the own
er and cultivator OF any tract Of land,
may, upon satisfactory evidence there
Of to the register and receiver Of the
proper land district, be permitted to
enter any unoccupied adjoining tract
Of the public lands, not exceeding one
section, and receive the receivers re-.
ceipt, on paying the price specified by
this act; but no patent for said tract
shall issue until three years after the
date Of said receipt; and that any sale,
contract for sale. lease. or contract for
lease Of said land, SO specified in said
receipt. prior to the emination of the
patent, shall be utterly null and void,
and operate as a forfeiture Of the pur-
chase-money specified in said receipt,
and the title, to the United States: Pro-
pided, also, That no receipt for land
shall be issued by said receiver to said
applicant, except upon affidavit, pre-
viously made by said applicant, before
the register and receiver Of the proper
land district, that said land SO sought
to be entered by said applicant, is un-
occupied, and that said entry is sought
to be made by said applicant for the
purpose Of eniarging the adjoining farm
or plantation Of said applicant, and not
for speculation.
Sec. 8. Andbe IT further enacted,
That no one who, under the provisions
Of this act, shall enter section Of land,
shall be permitted to make any further
entry; and that, after the passage Of this
act, all the lands Of the United States
shall be subject TO entry, under the pro-
visions Of this act, in subdivisions, not
less than quarter-quartcr section.
SEC. 9. ind be ii. further enacted,
That all lands Of the U. States, wheth-
err now subject to entry or not, shall
hereafter be entered only in the man
ncr prescribed by this act: PrOrided,
Aoweyer, That no right accrued and
vested undcr any existing law or treaty,
shall in any manner be affected by the
provisions Of this act.
SEC. 10. .9ndbe ii. further enacted,
That there shall b: granted to each Of
the States Of Missouri, Louisiana, and
Mississippi, a quantity Of land equal
to the quantity heretofore granted by
Congress TO the State of Ohio, for the
purpose Of internal improvement; and
that like quantity shall be granted to
each of the Territories Of the U. States.
upon their admission as States Of the
Union; and that there shall he also grant
ed to each Of the States of Indiana, ILL
nois, and Alabama, quantity Of land,
which, together with the quantity al
ready granted to each Of said States
for the purposes Of internal improve
ment, will make the grant to each Of
said States for the purpose Of internal
improvement, equal to the quantity al
ready granted to the State Of Ohio for
the purpose Of internal Improvement;
which said lands shall be selected with
in the limits Of said States respectively,
and in such manner as the Legislatures
thereof shall direct, and be located in
parcels conformably to sectional divi-
sions and subdivisions Of not less than
three hundred and twenty acres, or one
half section, in any one location, on a.
ny public land subject TO entry, or that
may hereafter become subject 10 entry;
which said locations may be made al
any time within five years after the
passage Of this act, and as regards any.
Territories not already admitted al
States Of the Union, within Eve wears
after said Territories shall be admitted
as States Of the Union: and all roads.
bridges, or canals, which may be con-
structed by any Of said States respect
lively, from the nett proceeds of the
sales Of said lands, shall be frcSs1cr the
transportation ofths United States mail,
and munitions Of war, aud for the pas
sage Of the troops Of the United States,
without the payment Of any toll what
ever. IL
SEC. III. md 6e II further enacted,
That al public lands that now are, o.
hereafter shall have beens subject toen-
atrv five years md Ioaa f1Sa I, inv v,not.