The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-07-02
PaE-EMPTION ACT.
An Act supplementary to an act e

P2E-EMPTION, ACT.
An Act supplementary to an act entitled
s. An act TO grant .emption rights to
settlers on the public lands" approved
June twenty-second, eighteen hundred
and thirty-eight.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled, That
in all cases where a settler on the public
lands may reside, or have his dwelling
house upon one quarter section, and cul-
tivate land on another and different quar-
ter section, such settler may take his
election under the act to which this is a
supplement, to enter either of said quar-
ter section, or legal subdivision OF each,
so as not to exceed one quarter section in
all.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
in all cases where an individual;may have
made an improvement on the public land,
and had aiterward leased or rented such
improvement to another person, who
was in possession of the same on the
twenty of June, eighteen hundred
and thirtyeight, and for the period of
four months next preceding, or when the
lessor and lessee, together, occupied such
improvement during said four months,
the person who made such improve
ment, and so rented or leased the same,
shall be entitled to the right of pre-emp-
ton, notwithstanding he may have been
out of possession of his improvement dur
ing four months, or any part thereof.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
That every settler on the public lands,
which were not surveyed at the passage
of the act to which this is supplement,
and who, since the survey of such public
land has been ascertained to have resided,
at the date of said act, and for four
months preceding, on sixteenth section,
set apart for the support of schools in
| any township, shall be entitled to enter
at the minimum price any other quarter
section of the public lands lying in the
same land district, to which no other per-
son h: s the right Of presumption, on ma
king satisfactory proof of his or her re.
sidence as aforesaid on such sixteenth
section, before the register and receiver
of the land office of said district.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,
That every person who may have been
settler, within the meaning Of the act to
which this is Il supplement. on any pub
lie land before its selection by any State
for the purposes of a seminary of learning
under any act of Congress authorizing
such selection, on satisfactory proof Of
facts before the register and receiver of
the district in which his Improvements
were situated, shall be permitted to enter
az the minimum price, any other quarter
section lying in the same land district, to-
which no other person has the right of
presumption.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted,
That the "Act to grant presumption rights
to settlers on the public lands,'' approved
June twenty-second, eighteen hundred
and thirty-eight, be and the same is here
by continued in full force till the twenty
second day of June, eighteen hundred
and torty-two, and the right of pre-emp-
ton, under its provisions, shall be, and
hereby is, extended TO all settlers on the
public lands at the date of this act, with
the same exceptions, whether general or
special, and subject to all the limitations
and conditions contained in the above re-
cited act, and with the explanatory pro-
visions Of the preceding sections of this
act, and nothing in the last proviso of the
act of the twenty-second of June, eighteen
hundred and thirty-eight, shall be SO con-
strued as to defeat any right of pre.emp-
ton accruing under said act, or under
any preceding act of Congress, nor shall
said pre-emp.ion claims be defeated by
any contingent Choctaw location.
Approved, June 1st 1910.
NJ. VAN buren,.
MASSACHUSETTS, The Wings held
tremendous Convention in this State, on
the 18th ult., in the town of Greenfield.
The Greenfield Courier says 1--WE may
safely state that not far from Ten Thou
smadqpersons were convened" In the
way Of banners, mottos and devices, they
beat every thing.
Advertising is to trade what steam is
to machinery--the grand-propelling, GO
ahead power yet there are some persons
so blind to their own interest, as to pom
der over cent which would yield them .
hundred to Thousand per cent.
Boston Journal.
All the leaders Of the Van Buren, party
IN Harrisburg, with one or two exceptions,
are old federalists; and yet they pirate =
bout democracy as if it had been born
with them! But the rank and file OF the
party are now finding ont the leaders and
are beginning TO bout face.
Harrisburg Tel.