, 1841-11-20
VOLUME IL
CIRCULAR,
CIRCU LAR,
To the Register and Receivers Of the Uni
ted States Land Office
GENERAL LAM" OFFIcE,l

Gentlemen:-Annexed is a copy of that
portion of an act of Congress approved on
the 4th instant, entitled
San act to appropriate the proceeds Of the
sales of the public lands. and to grant pre-
emptiou rights" which has relation to the
subject of premptions. Your attention is
directed to the several provisions Of that
portion of said act. and Your observance en-
Joined of the rules hereinafter stated, as pre-
scr;6sd " the Sel city &I'he Treasury, in
. accordance with the 18th seclon OF said
act. -,
The individual claiming the beneftsot SAID
act must be,
First, A citizen Of the United States, 81
have filed his declaration OF intention, to
become a citizen.
Second. Either the head of a family. or a
widow, or a single man over the age of twen-
one years.
Third. An inhabitant of the tract sought
to be entered, upon which, in person, he
has made a settlement and erected a dwell
ing house. since the 1st of June 1910, and
prior to the time when the land is applied
for. which land must. at the date of the set
Element. have had the Indian title extlnguisl-
ed and been SURVEYED BY the United States.
A person failing in any one OF these re-
ouisites can have no claim by virtue OF this
act.
A person bringing himself within each
of the above requirements by proof satis-
factory 20 the Register and Receiver OF the
land district in which the lands may lie, Ia
ken pursuant to the rules hereinafter pre-
scribed. will after having taken the atfida-
Wit required by the act, be entitled to enter,
bv legal subdivisions, any number of acres
not exceeding one hundred and sixty. or n
quarter section to include his residence.
and he NAV avail himself Of the same at
any tine prior 10 the day of the commence
ment of the public sale, including said tract
where the land has not vet been proclaim
ed.
Where the land was subjectto private
entry. at the date of the settlement matt
since the LIST of June, 1910 and prior 10 The
passage Of this act, and the settler is desr-
GUS OF securing the same under this net, he
must give notice OF his Intention TO purchase
the same under its provisions, within thee
months from the passage Of the law; that is,
before the fourth day of December next
Where the and shall hereafter become
subject to private entry. and after thai pc.
Rod a settlement shall be made, which the
settler is DESTROYS of securing under this act.
such notice of his intention must be given
within the thirty days after the date of such
settlement. Such notice, in both eases
mus, be a written one describing the land set.
tied upon, and declaring the intention o. such
persons to claim the same under the povis-
ions of this act.
In the first case, the proof, affidavit and
payment, must be made within twelve months
after the passage of this act: and, in the Sc.
cond case, within twelve months after the
date of such settlement.
- There declaratory statements are TO be re.
gulariy numbered by the Register in the or
der of the date of their reception, n! en-
tered in a suitable book, columnel of, to
show the number, date when received, name
of the party, and description of the tract
claimed, and monthly abstracts of the same
are to be furnished to the General Land or
fee. with your other monthly returns.
The existence of the claims should be in.
Dictated on the township plates, by marking
with red ink, a cross on the spot occupied
by the claim, and also, with red ink, noting
on the same spot the number OF the declara.
tory statement in neat and very small fig
ures. so as not to interfere with the regular
annotations which will have to be made
when the regular proof and payment shall
have been made by the claimant. and his en-
try OF the tract c~onsummated. The existence
of such claims should also be noted in pencil.
on their appropriate places in their tract
books.
The tracts liable to entry under this act,
are some one Of the following designations:
First. A regular quarter section, nowith-
standing its quantity, may be a few acres
more or less than one hundred and sixty; or
quarter section which, though fractional in
quantity by the passage of a navigable
stream though the same, is still bounded by
regular sectional and quarter sectional lines.
Second. A fractional section, containing
not over one hundred and sixty acres, or
any tract being a detached or anomalous
survey, made Pursuant TO law, and not ex-
ceeding said quantity.
Third. Two adjoining half quarter sec
lions, lin all cases to be separated by a north
line. except Oh the north side Of townships
where the surveys are so made as to throw
the excess or deficiency on the north and
west side of the township Of the regular
quarters mentioned in the first designation;