Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-09-03

of a claim of this latter class will be
settlement, improvement and contin
ued occupancy. Preference should
invariably be given to such claimants.
This however cannot be strictly re-
quired Of persons whose claims are
confined exclusively to the timbered
lands; but they should report them to
you and exercise such other acts of
ownership over them as would lead
the community to regard them as
valid.
In case any Of the claimants upon
either class of lands mentioned do not
desire to purchase Immediately, you
will register their names, with de-
scription oftheir land and permit them
to purchase at any time within six
months after the expiration of the no.
tice hereinafter referred to, and if they
fail to purchase within the time speci-
fed, their claims UiN be considered for
fcited.
The remainder of the grant, after
of SO much Of it as may be
embraced in the two classes of claims
referred to, you can sell as applica-
ton may be made for it, observing in
doing so the general rules given for
the second class of claims. Require
each application to be filed in your
office thirty &n1Aau hoEaEa~sAns~sbA
land applied for, in order that you
may have time to ascertain whether
it conflicts with other claims.
/ am not authorized to make any
disposition Of the lands in the amor
gdnizcd counties. | would say how
ever to claimants and others interest
ed, that so soon as any of the new
counties are organized in which they
have been selected, they will be dis
posed of in conformity with the fore
going instructions.
The terms of sale will be one fourth
in cash and the remainder on Gre
dit of ten years. The whole amount
however may be paid in cash and a
tificate given Immediately if desired.
The price per acre will be the valua-
ton fixed by the selecting agents,
which you will find annexed to each
subdivision in the list heretofore re-
ferred to.
Where land is purchased on a par
tial credit, certificate of payment
should not be issued for any portion
of it until the stipulations OF the con-
tract are fully complied mith. For in
stance person contracting for half
section, should not receive certifi-
cate for any sub division of it, until
payment is made for the whole. This
rule should not be departed from in
of either this or the 10th
section grant. You should also take
due precautinn to protect the lands
sold on a partial credit from waste.
Permit no person to use more timber
than is necessary for ordinary build
ing or farming purposes. Cutting
timber for sale, such as wood, rails,
saw logs, &c, should be strictly pro-
hibited until full payment is made for
the land.
Upon the receipt. of this circular
and the accompanying papers, you
will Immediately give thirty days no.
tice of the sale by dating and posting
up the enclosed hand bills. The six
months additional time given to pur-
chasers who desire it, will commence
at the expiration of this notice. The
transcripts of land sent herewith,
should be covered and carefully pre-
served for future reference. | send
also the necessary blanks for con-
tracts, certificates, and mortgages.
conceive that the two former are the
only papers which it is essential you
should record in your office. 1t is
sufficient to have the mortgages re-
corded in the county Recorders office.
This record and the expense attend
ing 1t seems to have been overlooked
by the General Assembly, as no pro-
vision is made for either. In view
therefore of this fact, and from the ad-
ditional consideration that the inter-
est on the school fund is limited to ten
per cent, you will in future require the
person borrowing the money to pay
the fee for recording the mortgage.
Keep copy of each contract on file
and give duplicate to the purchaser.
| send herewith blanks for your
quarterly and annual reports. Your
annual report, by an amendment of
last winter, will be rendered on the
first Of November, instead of the 18th
October as heretofore. 1t should
however extend back to the 18th Oc-
tober last. You will perceive that it
is intended only to embrace educational
statistics, as the financial affairs of your
office will appear from your quarterly
reports.
| did not succeed in getting the
school law printed when at Dubuque
in July. I will return 70 that place
in the present month and SO soon as
it can be prepared, you will be sup
piled with the requisite number of
copies for your county. Ihave had d
uniform set of books prepared for the
Fund Commissioners and design de-
livering them at each office in person
when ! have leisure to do SO. In the
mean time you will make only such
temporary records and entries as are
absolutely necessary. u future you
will please prepay all mail matter
addressed to this office, and the same
rule will be observed with that trans
mitted to you by the undersigned.
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