Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-11-20

ready received as aforesaid, make fy,
| hundred thousand acres; the selections i,
| all Of the said States to be made With,
their limits respectively in. such name
as the Legislature thereof shall direct; AM
located in parcels, contormably in section
al divisions and subdivisions, of not les.
than three hundred and twenty acres II
one location. on any public land excep
such as Is or may be reserved from sale BIZ
any law Of Congress or proclamation o
the President Of the United States, which
said locations may be made at any time
alter the land OF the United States in sale
States respectively shall have been sur.
veyed, according to existing laws. And
there shall be and hereby is granted tc
each new State that shall be hereafter ad.
United Int" the Union, upon such admis.
SION, SO much land as, including such
quantity as may have been granted to
such State before its admission, and while
under a Territorial Government, for pur-
poses OF internal improvement as afore.
said, shall make five hundred thousand
acres of land, to be selected and located
as aforesaid.
Sec. 8 And be 1t further enacted, That
the lands herein granted to the States
above named shall not be disposed of at
a price less than one dollar and twenty.
tive cents per acre, until otherwise author
lzed by Il law Of the United States: and
the nett proceeds Of the sales of said lands
shall b. faithfully applied to objects of
internal improvement within the States
aforesaid respectively, namely: Roads rail.
ways, bridges, canals ana Improvement of
watcr-conr>cs, and draining of swamps
and such roads, railways, canals, bridges
and waicr-courscs, when made or I'M
proved, shall be free for the transporta-
ton Of the United States mail, and mr,.
nltions OF war,and for the passage Of their
troops, without the payment Of any toll
whatever.
Sec. 20 in4b c IL further enacted, That
from and after The passage OF this act eve
ry person, being the head Of family, or
widow, or single man, over the age of
tVcn'y-onc years, and being a citizen of
the United States, or having filed his de-
claratlon Of intention to become q citizen.
as required ~ the naturalization laws,
who, since the first day of June, A. D.
eighteen hundred and forty, has made, or
shall hereafter make, IA settlement in per-
son on the public lands to which the Indi-
al title had been, at the time of such set.
t%!efnent, cxtlngnished and which has been,
or shall have been surveyed prior thereto,
and who shall inIabit and improve the
same, and who has or shall erect a dwell
ling thereon, shall be, and is hereby au-
thor'sed to enter with the register of the
land Office for the district in which such
land may lie,by legal subdivisions, any
number OF acres not exceeding one hun
bred and sixty, or a quarter section of
land TO include the residence oil such
claimant, upon paying the United States
the minimum price Of such land, subject,
however, to the following limitations and
exceptions: No person shall be entitled 10
more than r p%re-emptive right by virtue
OF tins act; no person who is the ~proprie-
tor OF three hundred and twenty acres of
land IN any State or Territory, of the Uni
ted States, and no person who shall quit
Or abandon his residence on his own land
to reside on the public land in the same
State or Territory, shall require any right
Of presumption under this act; no lands
including IN any reservation, by any trea-
ty. law, or proclamation Of the President
OF the United States, or reserved for sa.
lines, or for other purposes; no lands re-
served for the support of schools, nor the
lands acquired by either or the two last
treaties with the Miami tribe OF Indians
IN the State f Indiana, or which NAV be
acquired of the Wyandot tribe of Indians
III the State of Ohio, or other Indian reser-
va'ion to which the title has been or NAV
he eIt'ngu!slled by the Uni ed States at
any tirne during the operation of this act;
DO sections Of land reserved to the United
States alternate to other sections granted
to any Of the States for the construction
of any canal, railroad, or other public i'm.
proyement; no sections or fractions of Sec
included within the limits of any in
c%orpofated town; nc portions of the public
lands which have been selected as the site
OF a city or town; no parcel1nr lot of land
actually settled and occupied for the pur-
poses of trade and not agriculture: and no ,
lands on which are situated anv known sa-
lines on mines, shall be liable to entry un-
der ard by virtue of the provisions of this
act, And SO much Of the ~proviso of the
OF twentv-second of June, eighteen
hundred and thirty eight, or any order
of the President of the United States, as
directs certain reservations to be made in
favor of certain claims under the treaty
Of Dancing Rabbit creek be. and the sal
IS hereby repealed: Pyorided. That such
shall not effect any title 10 anv
tract Of land secured in virtue of said
Sec. II And he il further enacted, That
when two or more persons shall have set.
tied on the same quarter section Of land,
The right OF prescription shall be in lin
Dr. her who made the first settlement, pro-
Elded such persons shall conform to the
provisions of this act; and all ques-
as to the right of presumption arising
different settlers shall be settled
~ the register and receiver of the district
within which The land is situated, subject
an appeal to and a revision by the Sec
of the Treasury of the Z. States.
Sec. -. And be it further enacted, That
NOR to any entries being made under
md by virtue of the provisions of this act,
'roof of the settlement and Improvement
hereby required shall be made to the sat
Of the register and receiver of |
he. land district i'm which such lands NAV {