The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-27
FORMS AND REGULATIONS
FOR the Assignment OF Land Warrants and
Locations.

FORMS AND REGULATIONS
For the Assignment of Land Warrants and
Locations.
GENERAL LAND OFFICE, March %, 1852
DY THE FIRST SECTION OF the act OF Congress,
ID entitled "An act making Land Warrants as
signabe and for other purposes, approved March
% 1852 it is provided THAT all warrants for mill
tary bounty land which have been or ma hereafter
be Issued under any law ofthe United States and all
valid locations of the same which nave been or
may hereafter be made, are hereby declared to be
assignabe, by deed or instrument oil writing made
and executed after the taking effect OF this act ac
cording to such form, and pursuant TO such regu'
lations as may be prescribed by the Commissioned
Of the General Land Office, 30 az to vest the as
signee with all the rights OF the original owners oi
the warrant or location. 1900
Ia accordance with the provisions OF this section,
the following forms are prescribed for the assign
ment OF the warrants and locations reier'e" TO- 10
wit:
FORM FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE
WARRANT.-No. /.
For value received, /, A. b., to whom the within
warrant No - was issued, do hereby sell aud
and assigns forever, the said warrant aud author
ize him to locate the same, and receive patent
therefor.
Witness my hand and seal, this - day Of,
Attest: Il. [sEAL.l
E.F.
G. II.
Form Of acknowledgment ohere he ce'tdor - knotoh
to the officer taking the acknowledgment.
STATE OF -, COUNTY OF -.
On this - day of -. in the year -,
before personally came (hers insert Tie mime Of the
tcarTantee) to me well known, aud acknowledged
| the foregoing assignment TO be his act and deed;
and certify that the said (here insert the name o.
,oarruntee) is the Identical person to whom the
within warrant issued, and who executed the fore
(O6icer's signature
Form of acknowledgment inhere the uendor is not
kno,on to the officer, and his identity has to be
proceed
On this - day Fl, in the year -,
before me personally came (ssre insert the name of
the ,oarrantee) and (here insert the and resi-
denes Of toitress,) and the said (hers insert the
credible and disinterested person, was duly sworn
by me. and on his oath declared and said, that he
well knows the said (here insert the name Of the
,oarrantee) and that he is the same person to whom
the within Warrant issued, and who executed the
foregoing assignment, and his testimony being
satisfactory evidence to me OF that fact the said
(here insert the of the tDarrGntee) thereupon
acknowledged the said assignment to be his act
and deed. (OEcer's signature
FORM FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE Lo-
CATION.-No. 2.
For value received, /, A. B., to whom the within
certificate Of location was issued do hereby sell
and assign unto &. D., and to his heirs and assigns
forever, the said certificate Of location, and the
him to receive the patent therefor.
Witness my hand and seal, this - day Of
-, 1876
Attest: A. b. tsEAL.]
EE
Form of acknowledgment tDhere the ue,adoy is per-
sonaHy k,,otrn to the officer taking The same.
STATE OF COUNTY OF -.
On this -- day Of -, in the year
before personally (hers insertthe name Of the
person TO ioho'n the certificate Of location issued) to
me well known, and acknowledged the foregoing
assignment to be his act and deed; and certify
that the said (lere insert the Of the person to
,ohom the certificate Of location issued) is the den
teal person to whom the within certificate OF To-
cation issued, and who executed the foregoing a5
signment thereof.
(OGicer's signature.)
Form of acknowledgment ,oheye the pendor 10 not
personally knoton to the officer. and tohere his
identity has to be proved.
STATE OF -, COUNTY OF -.
On this - day of -, in the year -,
before me personally came (here ins,rt the name
Of the person to tchom the certfcat Of location is
sued, and (here insert the and residence Of a
,Ditness,) and the said (here insert the Of the
,Ditness) being we'll known to me as credible
and disinterested person, was duly sworn by me.
| and on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said (here insert the name Of the person
to ,oho the certificate Of location issusd) and that
he is the person to whom the within certlh-
cate of location issued and who executed the fore
| going assignment; and his testimony being salts
factory evidence to me of that fact the said (here
insert the name of the person TO ,ohom the fcate
| Of location issued) thereupon acknowledged the
| said assignment to be his act and deed.
| [Oficer's signat,re)
Assignment No. and acknowledgment must
| be endorsed upon the warrant, and No. and &C
acknowledgement upon the certificate of location; and
| must be attested by two witnesses, acknowledged
before a Register or Receiver of n Land Office,
Judge of Court of Record, Justice of the Peace,
or a Commissioner Of Deeds resident in the State
| from which he derives HIS appointment; and in
mat nee w n ia
made before either of the officers above speci-
| fed, except the Register or Receiver of a Land
Office, it must be accompanied by certif-
cate, under seal OF the proper authority, OF the
| official character Of the person before whom the
| acknowledgment was made, and also of the gen.
| uineness of his signature.
| All assignments of bounty land warrants issued
under the act of September %, 1880, made be-
fore the date of this act, are invalid and void
The same section provides, THAT any person
entitled to pre- emption right to any land, shall be
Of the same, at the rate of % per acre for the
quantity of land therein specified"
BY this provision all persons entitled to preemp-
ton, whether offered or unoffered lands,
a military bounty land warrant in payment for
| the tract pre- empted, reckoning the said warrant
at one dollar and twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified whether the land
| 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- emptor
will have to pay for the excess in cash, but # it
| should fall short, he 10 not entitled to reiundng
| of the excess. ...
Itis further provided by the section "that the
warrants which have been, may hereafter bessued
! in pursuance Of said laws of this act may be To-
Gated according to the legal subdivisions of the
public lands, in one body, upon any lands Of the
United States, subject to private entry at the time
| of such location, at the minimum price: Provided
| further, That when said warrants shall be located
| on lands which subject to entry at greater
| minimum than dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, the locator of said warrant shall pay to
| the United States in cash the difference between
the value of such warrants at one dollar and TWEEN
ty five cents per acre and the tract of land located
on"
| BY these provisions where the lands subject
to private entry at one dollar and twenty five cen ia
per acre, the holder of an eighty-acre warrant can
| take any two forty acre lots, forming a compact
body Of eighty acres; and the holder Of warrant