Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1852-04-08

know tcdRmcnt is made before any officer other
llan the Register OF Receiver Of Land Office,
|, must he accompanied by certificate, under
zeal Of The proper authority Of The official char
acter Of the person before whom the aeknowl-
edgmcnt was mades and also Of the gennineness
Of his signature. ~
All assignments OF bounty land warrants is
sued under the act Of September 2Sth, 1850
made before the date Of this act, are invalid apd
void.
The same section provides, 'eThat any person
entitled 10 prescription right TO any land, shall
be entitled TO use any such land warrant in pay
lnent Of the same, at the rate Of s 20 per acre
for the quantity Of land therein specified"
BY this provision, all persons entitled 10 pre-
empiion, whether on offered or unofered lands,
can use military bounty land warrant in pay
ment for the tract prc-empted, reckoning the
said warrant at 81 20 per acre for the quantity
therein specified, whether the land so claimed
is at the usual or enhanced minimum.
Should the area Of the tract claimed exceed
the amount called for in the warrant, the pre-
smptor will have 60 pay for the excess in cash,
but il it should fall short he is not entitled 10
a refrnding OF the excess.
II is further provided by The same section,
''that tho 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 sub
jccl to private entry at the time Of such lOca-
ton, at the minimum price: Prorblef, further,
That when said warrants shall be located on
lands which arc subject 10 a greater minimum
than 81 % per acre. The locator of said warrant
shall paw to tho United States in cash, the differ
..olra nf e,,al, at
81 % per acre, and the tract Of land located
on.i
BY these provisions, when the lands are sub
ject 10 private entry at 81 IS per acre, the hold
er Of an eighty acre warrant can take any two
forty acre lots, forming compact body of
eighty acres; and the holder Of warrant for
one hundred and sixty acres, can take two eight
y-acre, or four forty-acre tracts, forming COM
| pact body of one hundred and sixty acres.
Where the minimum price of the lands, sub
| ject to private entry proposed TO be located is
more than 25 per acre, the holder Of the war
rant can locate, in accordance with the instruc-
lions contained in the foregoing paragraph, the
quantity specified in the warrant, by paying the
difference in cash.
This act does not authorize the holder Of an
eighty-acrc warrant to locate Herewith forty
acre tract of land at 81 so per acre in full sat
isfaction thereof, but he must locate, by legal
subdivisions the compact body of eighty acres,
as near as may be, and pay the difference IN
cash. So also Of l60 acre warrants, except in
pre- emption cases, as herein before stated.
Each warrant is to be distinctly and separate
! " located so that it follows that no body Of
land can be located by an assignee Of various
warrantecs, with number Of warrants; nor car
a pre-emptor in any case use more than ono
warrant in the location Of the land pre-emptet
by him, and the excess, if any, must be paid fol
by him in cash.
The second section OF this act provides, "Tha
the Registers and Receivers of the Land Office,
shall hereafter be sGverally authorized TO de-
mand and receive for their services in locating
all military bounty land warrants, issued since
the llth day of February, lS47, the same com.
pensation or per centage to which they arc en-.
titled by law for sales of the public lands fol
cash, at the rate of 81 20 per acre, the SAID
compensation TO be hereafter paid by the assign
ces or holders of said warrants"
! The third section of this act provides "Tha
/ Registers and Receivers, whether in or out Of
office at the passage of this act, or their lega
representatives in case OF death. shall be enti
tied to receive from the treasury of the United
States, for services heretofore performed in 10.
eating military bounty land warrants, the SAME
rate of compensation provided in the preceding
section for services hereafter to be performed
after deducting the amount already received b,
such officers under the act entitled AN act L
require the holders of military land warrants t.
compensate the Land Officers of the United
States for services in relation TO the location o.
those warrants, approved May 18th, 1913
| Provided that no Register or Receiver shall re-
I aot w otiOn mt nf tho Trao 20,
past services who has charged and received lille
legal fees for the location of such warrants
find propided further, That no Register or Re.
ceiver shall receive for his services during any
year a greater compensation than the maximum
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 nc
of 26lh September, 1850, they must take tn,
necessary steps to pay TO the Register and Re
ceivSr the fees to which they are entitled Tn,
same course must be observed by persons re
mote from the District Land Offices in makinl
application by letter to those officers. Withou
the payment Of those fees the warrants oanno
be located.
BY the terms of this law tho fees are as fol
lows:
For forty acre warrant, fifty cents each
to Register and Receyer-total 81 OF
For an eighty-aere warrant, one dollar
each to Register and Receiver 500
For one hundred and sixty acre warrant,
two dollars each to Register and Re
ceiver $4 On
j. BUTTERFIELD, Commissioner.
KossuTH IN JAoxsoN. jackson, Miss.
March 23-Kossuth was received by Cover