Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1852-04-08
Land Warrants made Assignable.

it passed both Houses Of Congress. it!
will, no doubt, promptly receive the
signature of the President:
AN ACT making Land Warrants As
signable and for other purposes.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives, Of the United States
Of Anaeficd in Congress assembled, That
all warrants for military bounty land,
which have been or may hereafter be
issued under any law of the United
States, and all valid locations of the
same, which have been, or may hereaf-
ter be made, are hereby declared to be
assignable, by deed or instrument of
writing, made and executed after the
taking effect of this act according TO
such form, and pursuant to such regu-
lations as may be prescribed by the
| Commissioner of the General Land Of
/ fee, 20 as to vest the assignee with all
the rights of the original owners of the
warrant or location: Pronided, That
any person entitled to pre-emption right
to any land shall be entitled to use any
such land warrant, in payment of the
same, at the rate of ST. per acre, for
the quantity of land therein specified:
ProUided, 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
1 United States, subject to private entry
at the time of such location, at the min
imum price: PyoUided, further; !; That
when said warrants snail be located on
lands which are subject to entry at a
greater minimum than 81 ,25 per acre,
the locator of said warrants shall pay
4 to the United States in cash the differ
ence between the value of such war
ranis at 81 ,25 per acre, and the tract
of land located on.
SEC. 2. And be IL further enacted,
That the registers and receivers of the
land Offices shall hereafter be severally
authorised to charge and receive for
their services in locating all military
bounty land warrants, issued since the
4 l1th day of February, 1917, the same
compensation or per centage 20 which
they are entitled by law for sales of the
public lands for cash, at the rate oil
Sl,25 per acre, the said compensation
to be hereafter paid by the assignees
or holders of such warrants.
SEC. 3. And be 1t further enacted,
That registers and receivers, whether
IN ont of office at the passage oi
: this act, or their legal representatives
in case Of death, shall be entitled to re.
ceive from the Treasury of the United
States, for services heretofore perform
ed in locating military bounty land
warrants, the same rate of compensa-
ton provided IN the preceding section
for services hereafter to be performed,
after deducting the amount already re-
ceived by such officers under the act,
entitled AN act to require the holders
of military Jand warrants to compen-
safe the land officers of the United
States for services in relation to the
location of those warrants" approved
May II, lS4S: Prorided, That no re.
: gister or receiver shall receive any com.
pensation out of the Treasury for pas
! services, who has charged and received
! illegal fees for the location of such war
rants: And prouidcd further, That ne
register or receiver shall receive for hi:
8 services during any year a greater
compensation than the maximum now
, allowed by law.
, SEC. 4. And be ii further enacted
, That in all cases where the militia Of
: volunteers or State troops Of any Stat,
), or Territory were called into militar,
service, and whose services have beer
paid by the United States subseguen
to the 18th Of June, eighteen hundred
and twelve, the officers and soldiers o
. Esuch militia, volunteers or troops, shal
: be entitled to all the benefits OF the ac
: entitled ' An act granting bounty lant
i to certain officers and soldiers VIII,
: have been engaged in the military ser
), vice of the United States" approves
September 2Sth, eighteen hundred AM
! fifty, and shall receive lands for thei
services according to the provisions Q
: = said act, upon proof of length of ser
:. vice as therein required; and that tn
last proviso of the ninth section of tn
!, act of eleventh of February, eighteel
= hundred and forty seven, be and th
same is hereby repealed: Prormed
: That nothing herein contained sha
authorize bounty land to those VIII
have heretofore received or become en-
titled to the s;if1e.
5 SEC. 5. And be 1t further cnacico
d That where any company, battalion 0
e regiment, in an organized form, march
+ ed more than twenty miles to the plac
ds where they were mustered into the SCI
: vice of the United States, or were dis
,fl charged more than twenty miles fror
e the place where such company, batta
; ion or regiment was organised: in a
u such cases, computing the length G
IS service of the officers and soldiers &
e any such company, battalion or reg
n ment, with a view to determine tn
d lquantity of land any officer or soldie
,fl is entitled TO under said act, approve
: 18th of September, 1850, there sha
) be allowed one day for every twent
miles from the place where the com