Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-04-14

bounty land warrant at $1,25 per acre
for the quantity therein specified, whether
the land so claimed is at the usualor en-
HANGED minimum.
Should the area of the tract claimed
exceed the amount called for in the war
rant, the pre- -emptor will have to pay for
the excess in cash but if it should fall
short, he is not entitled to refunding Of
the excess.
1t is further provided, by the same Sec
ton, {" that the warrants which have been
or may hereafter be issued, in pursuance
of said laws or of this act, may be located
according to the legal subdivisions of the
public lands, in one body, upon any lands
of the United States subject to private en-
try at the time of such location, at the
time of such location, at the minimum
price: Provided further, That when said
warrants shall be located on lands which
are subject to entry at greater mini
mum than $1,25 per acre, the locator of
said warrant shall pay to the United
States in cash, the difference between the
value of such warrants at 81, rs per acre
and the tract of land located on"
By these provisions, where the lands
are subject to private entry at $1,25 per
acre, the holder of an eighty-acre war
rant can take any two forty acre lots, for
ming compact body of eighty acres /;
and the holder of a warrant for one hun
dred and sixty acres can take two eighty
acre, or four forty-acre tracts, forming
compact body of one hundred and sixty
acres.
Where the msnimum price of the lands
subject to private entry proposed to be
located is more than 81 rs per acre, the
holder of the warrant can locate, in accor-
dance with the instruction contained in
the foregoing paragraph, the quantity
specified in the warrant, by paying the
difference in cash.
This act dees not authorize the holder
of an eighty-acre warrant to locate there
with forty-acre tract of land at $3.50
per acre in full satisfaction thereof, but
he must locate, by legal sub -diyisions, the
compact body of eighty acres, as may be,
and pay the difference in cash. So also
of one hundred and sixty acre warrants,
except in presumption cases as herein be-
fore stated.
Each warrant Is to be distinctly and sep
arately located, so that it follows that no
nee of various warrantees, with number
of warrants; nor can pre-emptor in any
case use more than one warrant in the
location of the land pre'empted by him,
and the excess, if any, must be paid for
by him in cash.
The second section of this act provides
"that the Registers and Receivers of the
Land Offices shall hereafter severally be
authorized to charge and receive for their
services in locating all military bounty
land warrants, issued since the 18th day
of February, l847, the same compensa-
ton of per centage TO which they are en-
titled by law for sales of the public lands
for cash, at the rate of $1,25 per acre,
the compensation to be hereafter paid by
the assignees or holders of such war
rants"
The third section of this act provides
''that Registers and Receivers, whether
| in or out Of Office at the passage of this
act, or their legal representatives in case
of death, shall be entitled to receive from
the Treasury of the United States, for SER
vices heretofore performed in locating
military bounty land warrants, the same
rate of compensation provided in the pre-
ceding section for services hereafter to be
performed, after deducting the amount
already received by such officers under
the act entitled An act to require the
holders Of military land warrants to COM
pensate the Land Officers of the United
States for services in relation to the loca-
ton of those warrants approved May II,
1913: Provided, That no Register or Re-
ceiver shall receive any compensation out
of the Treasury for past services who has
charged and received illegal fees for the
location of such warrants And provided
further, That no Register or Receiver shall
receive for his services during any year,
greater compensation than the maxi
mum now allowed by law"
Where parties may desire to avail
themselves of the privilege Of having their
warrants located through this office, as
provided for by the act of 28th Septem-
Der, 1850, they must take tho necessary
steps to pay 10 the Register and Receiver
the fees to which they are entitled. The
same course must be observed by persons
remote from the District Land Offices in
making applications by letter to those of
ficers.
Without the payment of those fees the
warrants cannot be located.
By the terms of this law the fees are
as follows
For 4O-acre warrant fifty cents
each to Register and Receiver
total 81 90
For an 8O-acre warrant one dol
lar each to Register and Recei-
ver-total 50 90
For a 16O-acre warrant two dol
lars each to Register and Recei-
Yer-total 50 90
]. BUTTERFIELD, Com.
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