Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-06-26
AN ACT

for the selection and sale Of the lands grant.
ed to this State by an act of Congress-ap-
proved September 4, l841"
| Approved March IS, 1896.
Be enacted by the General Assembly of The
State Of Missouri as follops:
: l.. All persons holding pre.empton GER.
tficates for any Of the lands granted to this
State, by an act OF Congress, approved Sep.
tember the fourth. eighteen hundred and forty
one, may make payment therefor to the re-
ceiver Of the proper land office, at or before
the times following, and in the following in>
stallments One third on the first Monday in
March, l848, and the residue in two equal an
nual iustallments, with interest at six per cent.
per annum, from the third Monday in Novem-
Der, 1847.
| 2. Any person holding preempton GER
tficate for any Of the aforesaid lands, who
shall fail TO pay the first installment therefor,
at the time specified in the first section of this
act, shall forfeit his pre-emp,ion ,here,o; and
the registers and receivers at the several land
offices are hereby required to offer such for
ieited lands for sale, to the highest bidder, for
cash in hand, on the first Monday in April l848
having first given at least go days notice in
some newspaper OF general circulation in their
land district Of the time, place, and land TO be
sold, and the terms Of sale; and if either Of the
other installments shall not be paid as required
by this act, such lands shall be offered for sale,
according to the provisions Of this section, on
the first Monday in April after such forfeiture,
which sales shall continue from day TO day un
til such lands are sold or offered for sale and
no such lands shall be sold for less than one
dollar and 25 cents per acre, and such as shall
not sell, shall be subject to private entry, imme
diately after such sales, at 81 25 cents per
acre: Provided such sales or entries shall be
in legal subdivisions
3. All lands held by this State, by virtue
of said act OF Congress, shall be subjec! to pre-
emption, according to the fifth section of the
act to which this is an amendment and also
any person who shall improve and cultivate
not less than FIVE acres oil land shall be en,i-
tied to pre.emplion; but persons so pre-emp>
ting shall not remove any timber from the tract
so pre-empted Provided that a quarter section
shall in all cases be legal subdivision, and The
right Of pre-emp.ion, by cultivation, shall not
be construed as to apply to lands which may
have been pre-empted and forfeited to the State
under the last preceding section.
4. Any prerson who has heretofore or
may hereafter make settlement upon any Of
the lands specified in the last preceding section,
in conformity with the fifth section Of tine act
to which this is an amendment, may make
proof thereof to the register and receiver Of
the proper land Office at any time before the
third Monday in November, l847, and shall
be required TO make payment therefor, accord.
ing to the provisions ofthe LIST section Of this act
5. Any portion Of said lands which shall
not be pre-empted or entered on the third
Monday in November, l847, shall be subject
10 pre.emp,ion until the third Monday in No
vember, l94e: Provided that in such cases
payment shall be made in two annual install
ments--one- hall on the first Monday in March,
l849, and the other half on the first Monday
in March, 1850.
3 6. Any person who may hold pre>emp-
ton on any OF the aforesaid land and shall lor>
felt or fail TO pay for it shall not be allowed to
bid for or buy either directly or indirectly any
part Of the land which he forfeited, nor shall
any person holding pre- emptlon be allowed
to enter any part OF his presumption less than
the whole: Provided that nothing in this act
shall be so construed as to prevent the widow
or child or children Of any person who may
have proven prescription from rellnquishing
any par. Of the land so pre-empted, and pay
| ing for any legal subdivision Of such tract.
80. The term Of office of the several regis
ters and receivers OF the State land offices in
this State, now in office, shall extend to the first
day Of May, l8i9, and the terms of their sew.
eral successors shall commence on the said rst
day OF May, 1849, and continue for two years,
Approved February 2, l847.
*The following section of the pre-enptioI
law Of l845, is revived by the foregoing act.
[See Revised Statues Of l845, p. 683.]
5 S. Every person, being the head of fam
lily, or over twenty lone years of age, or widow,
who has heretofore made, or who shall hereaf-
ter make, settlement in person upon any Of
the lands granted 10 this State by said &C; OF
Congress, upon which no right Of prescription
shall at the time exist, and who has erected, or
shall erect, dwelling house thereon, and who
shall inhabii the same, shall be entitled to a
prescription right, al Sl,25 cents per acre, to
one quarter section Of land, to include the i'm
provement: Provided, where such settlement
shall not have been made upon quarter sec.
ton, bu, upon other legal subdivisions, such SET
tier shall be entitled to prescription right up
on adjoining legal subdivisions, TO include the
| improvement, so as not TO exceed one hundred
and sixty acres, or the number Of acres contain
ed in a quarter section: Provided, a quarter
section shall not be considered legal subdivis
ion.
Brig. General LANE has made a supple
mental report Of the movements OF the In
diana Brigade during the battle at Buenf
Vista. He gives in detail the action o
the left wing Of the army under his com
mand, and shows that the charge Of COW
ardice made against the I'd Indiana Regi
ment is base SANDER. OF about 400 mel
belonging to that regiment, l07 fell on th'