Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1837-07-18

township plats received,
JAS. WASHINGTON,
Commissioner.
GENERAL LAND OFFICE, June II, 1887.
Circular to Registers and Receivers Of
the United STATES Land Office.
GENERAL LAND OFFICE, June 8, 1887.
GENTLEMEN: 1t has been decided,
that the act Of Congress approved on
the 10th of June. 1884, entitled "An
act to revive the act entitled IAN act to-
grant pre-emption rights on the public
lands,' approved May twenty.nine, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty
revives, also, Herewith the act Of con.
gress approved on the 18th Of July.
1882, entitled 'An act supplemental to
the act granting the right of pre-emp-
ton to settlers on the public lands, APP
proved the twenty-ninth day of May,
eighteen hundred and thirty" the Ian
guage of which is as follows:
"Be it enacted, &c. That all the &C.
cupants and settlers upon public lands
ofthe United States, who are entitled
to pre-emption according to the pro-
visions ofthe act ofcongress approved
the twenty ninth day of May, eighteen
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 not having been
made and returned, or where the land
was not attached to any land district,
or where the same has been reserved
from sale on account of a disputed
boundary between any State and Ter
ritory, the said occupants shall be per.
mitted to enter the said lands on the
same conditions, in every respect, as
are prescribed in said act, within one
year after the surveys are made, or the
land attached to land district, or the
BOUNDARY line established; and if the
said lands shall be proclaimed for sale
before the expiration of one year as
aforesaid, then they shall be entered
before the sale thereof.
a SEC. 2. And Be it further enacted
That the occupants upon fractions shall
J be permitted, in like manner, to enter
the same, so as not to exceed in quantity
one quarter section; and if the fraction;
f exceed quarter section, the occupant:
shall be permitted to enter one hundred
and sixty acres. to include his or theil
} improvement, at the price aforesaid"
The intention of the act of 18th O
} July, 1882, being to grant an extension
: of time wherein to establish and pay
, for their valid claims, to those who, al
though settlers and cultivators in the
J, mode and at the time contemplated BY
! the original act, were nevertheless de
/ barred from receiving its benefits by
S reason of the surveys, which were il
process of execution within the lega
: term, not being officially returned anC
] filed in the district land Office until af
ter the expiration of such term, it ha
i been determined to be but fair, plain
and satisfactory Interpretation Of the
law, that the same remedial benefits ar,
t designed to be revived and extended t,
It those who, under precisely similar cir
|. cumstances, were unable to avail them
l. selves of the act of goth of May, 1886
d revived by that of the 10th Of June
e 1884.
Under this construction of the law
; an actual settler or occupant of quar-
n ter section, fractional quarter section
y or of a fractional section not exceedin
: one hundred and sixty acres, or Of tw
u adjacent and contiguous legal subdivi;
e ions of fractional section, (which sub
L divisions are designed by the law t
1t conform to the quantity of half quartz
sections as nearly as practicable,) VIII
y cultivated the same in the year 1873;
and had possession thereof on the lot
of June, 1884. and who was not ens
}. bled 10 make proof and enter the sam
d prior to the 10Th of June, 1896, Oh
5. term limited by the act of 10Th ofJun'
& ls34,) in consequence of the survey (
the township not being made and con
. pleted, and the official plat thereof RI
]. turned to and filed in the district Ian
: Office on or prior to the 10th Of Jun,
!, 1886, may be permitted to file proof
= his or her right of pre- -emption theret,
N on the terms and IN the mode prescF
e bed by the act of 10Th June, 1884, ;
r. any time oUathin one year after the plat
e ofthe survey of such lands shall hay
3 been filed in your Office, as contempll
4 ted by the act of 18th of July, 1882.
As To entitle the settler to the benefit
AZ Eof the>law, it IS requisite that the 50
vey Of he township wherein his clan
j lies, should have been IN process Of e
y ecution irtlss field during the term
1r the operation Of the acl of 10Th Of Jun
&c 1894. The right to locate eighty acre
a lelewhere, usually called "a float, wi
IS ae in cases where two persol
in the year 1888, the san
s tract ofland, and had possession Their
e of on the 10th of June, 1884 81.
IN floats may be located upon any suFVe
~ ed public land, mot otherwise Apr
priated,) in the same land district, b