Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-07-29

ring the lands which they occupy---'heh ilo''ie'
and improyements--under the Attorney oehe-
ral's liberal and just construction OF the pre-
emption laws, without being reduced 10 'he
necessity Of competing for their homes'saos
with the moneyed Spectator.
We would take leave to recommend to all
country editors in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, |
and elsewhere. wherever surveyed lands yet
remain to be brought into market, to give the
Commissioners Circular and Notice. one or
more insertions, as matter of peculiar interest
70 their readers. -tG!obe.
PRE.EMPTIeN RIGHTS.
Important 10 pre-empfors Of Public Lands, uho
haze not seclre1 their Claims under the pro-
visim,. Of The act Of Congress " 18Th June.
1884.
Settlers on public lands, having the right OF
presumption under the provisions OF the act OF
Congress Of 18th June, 1884, and who have
hitherto been unable to secure the same, for
the reasons set forth in the subloined letter,
will find it 70 their interest to exhibit the proofs
Of the claims TO the proper land officers, i'm
mediately, where the presence Of the township
plats at the District Land Office will enable
them SO TO do) or, in all cases, SO soon as The
piais sl,ali hare been received at such Office.
BY observing such timely proceeding. much
sietriment may be avoided BY claimants, aris-
ing from the decease or removal Of witnesses;
and as public sale may shortly be proclaim
ed Of considerable portion Of the lands thus
situated, the precise designation Of which has
not ret been determined on, much benefit will
result in having the testimony in support Of
pre.esnpiion rights fully examined, and def
niiciy acted on, pricr 10 such sale.
To enable parties interested 70 observe this
recommendation, registers Of land Offices arc
requested 10 give public notice. from time TO
time, 81 tho township plats received.
JAS. WIIITCOMD, Commissioner.
GENERAL LAND OfyicE, June II, 1897. =
CIRCULAR TO REclsTEss AND REcEiy-
Frs OF THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICES.
GENERAL Lasp OfFlcE, June II, 1887.
Gentlemen: 1t has been decided, that the
act Of Congress approved on the 10Th Of juno,
1884, entitled IAN act TO revive the act en,i-
tied IAN act to grant presumption rights to set
tiers on the public lands approved May TWEEN
ty-nine, one thousand eight hundred and thir-
W. revives, also, herewith the act Of Con-
grsss approved on the l4th Of Jaly, 1889, en-.
titled IAN act supplementary to the act grant
ing the right Of presumption to settlers on the
public lands approved the twenty-ninth day
Of May, eighteen hundred and thirty thelan-
gnage of which is as follows:
BE IL enacted, &c. That all the occupants
and settlers upon public lands Of the United
States, who arc entitled to prescription ac-
cording to the provisions ofthe act of Congress-
approved the twenty ninth day Of May, cigh-
teen hundred and thirty, and who have not
been, or shall not be, enabled TO make proof
and enter the same within the time limited in
said act, in consequence Of the public surveys
having been made and returned, or where the
land was not attached to any land district, OF
where the same has been reserved from sale
on account Of a disputed boundary between a.
ny State orTerritory, the said occupants shall
be permitted to enter the said lands on the same
conditions, in. every respect, as arc prescribed
in said act, within one year after the SURVEYS
are made, or the land attached to a land dis
trict, or the boundary line established; and i
the said lanGs shall be proclaimed for sale be
fore the expiration Of ono year as aforesaid
then they shall be entered before the sale there
81.
Sec. 2. Ind be II further enacted, That The
occupants upon fractions shall be permitted
in like manner, to enter the same, SO as no
to exceed in quantity one quarter section, tn
occupants shall be permitted to enter one hun
dred and sixty acres, TO include his or thei
Improvement, at the price aforesaid
The intention of the act Of 18th of july
1892, being to grant an extension time where
IN to establish and pay for their valid claims
to those who, although settlers and cultivator
in the mode and at the time contemplated b
the original act, were nevertheless debarre
from receiving its benefits by reason Of Til
surveys, which were in process Of execution
within the legal term, not being officially re
turned and filed in the district land office unit
after the expiration Of such term, it has bee
determined to be but fair, plain, and salts
factory Interpretation of the law, that the SAM
remedial benefits are designed to DO revived
and extended to those who under precisely ST
mliar circumstances, were unable to avail
themselves Of the act of 10Th Of Nav, 1880
revived by that Of the 10Th Of Juno, 1884.
Under this construction of the law, an actu
a. settler OF occupant Of quarter section, frac.
Nonai quarter section, or Of fractional sec.
ton not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres.
prot two adjacent and contiguous legal subdi.
visions OF fractional section, (which, snhdi.
visions are designed by the law to conforno ~
the quantity Of half quarier sections as nca,lw
as practicablcD who cultivated the san,e Il
the year 1888, and had possession thereof IN
the 18th Of June, 1884, and who was not ena.
bled 70 make proof, and enter The same nror
70 10Th Of June, 1896, (the term limited bv Tho
act Of l9th Of nne, 1870 in consequence .1 of
the survey Of ll.e township not being made and
completed, and the official plat thereof return.
ed TO and filed in the district land Office nm -
prior to the 10Th Of June, 1886, MAY be nov =.
initted TO file proof Of his or her right Of pre.
emption thereto. on the terms and IN the mode
prescribed by the act Of 18th June, 1894. a,
any time iithin one year after the plats Of The
survey Of ouch lands shall have been filed Al
yonr officc, as contemplated by the act Of l4th
Of July, 1882.