The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-04
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Form Of acknowledgment toh9e the pendor is not
personally k,so,cn TO the officer, and ,ohere has
identity hdS TO be proved

On this - day OF -, in the year
before me personally came (hee insert the name
Of the person TO ,ohom the cert fcats Of location
sued and (here insert The and residence Of
,oitness,) and the said (hers insert tie name Of the
Uitness) being well known TO me credible
and disinterested person, duly sworn by me,
and on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said there insert the name Of The person
TO ,ohom TIE cetf cate Of location issued and that
he Is the same person to whom the within certih-
cate OF location issued and who executed the lore
going assi gnment; and his testimony being salts
factory evidence to of that fact, the said (here
insert the of the person TO ,ooSa the certificate
Of location isStled) thereupon acknowledged the
said assignment to be his act and deed
(0Dices signat,ue.)
Assignment No. ! and acknowledgment must
be endorsed upon the warrant, and No. and ac-
acknowledgement upon the certificate of location; and
must be attested by two witnesses, acknowledged
before Register Receiver of a Land Office, a
Judge of Court of Record, Justice of the Peace
or Commissioner of Deeds resident in the State
from which he derives his appointment; and in
every instance where the acknowledgement is
made before either OF the officers above speci-
fed, except the Register or Receiver of Land
Othcc, 1t must be accompanied by certih-
cate, under seal of the proper authority, OF the
official character of the person before whom the
aCknow ledgmept was made, and also Of the gen
uneness of his signature.
All Assignments of bounty land warrants issued
under the act of September 2S, 1850, 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
entitled to use any such land warrant in payment
Of the same, at the rate of rs per acre for the
quantity of land therein specified"
ny this provision, al persons entitled TO pre- emp
ton, whether on offered unofIered lands can use
a military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre- emptcd, reckoning the said warrant
at one dollar and twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land 80
claimed is at the usual or enhanced minimum.
Should the area Of the tract claimed exceed the
n war he pto
will have TO pay for the in each, but If it
should fall short, he is not entitled to rounding
Of the excess
isfurther provided by the same section "that the
warrants which have been may hereafter be Issued
in pursuance Of said laws of this act may be 10.
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: PrOuided
further, That when said warrants shall be located
on lands which are subject TO entry at a 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 Mt one dollar and TWEEN
ty five cent? per acre and the tract OF land located
on
by these provisions, where the lands arc subject
TO private entry at dollar and twenty. five
per acre. the holder Of an eighty-acr warrant can
take any two forty acre lots, forming a compact
body OF eighty acres; and the holder of warrant
for one hundred and sixty acres can take two
eighty acre or four forty-acre tracts, forming n
compact body Of one hundred and sixty acres
Where the minimum price OF the lands, subject
20 private entry proposed 20 be located is than
81 25 per acre, the holder Of the warrant can To-
cate, in accordance with the instructions 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 acre warrant 20 locate herewith forty
acre tract OF land ut 81 80 per in full salts
faction thereof, but he must locate, by legal subd
visions, the compact body of eighty acres, near
may be, and pay the difference in cash. So also
of 60-acre warrants.
Each warrant is to be distinctly and separately
located, that IL follows that no body of land can
be located by assignee of various warrantecs, |
with number Of ,odudnts; can a pre-emptor
in any case u5c more than one warrant in the huca
ton OF the land prc-empted by him, and the ex-
cess, ifany, tnust be paid fer by him in cash.
The second section of this provides THAT the
Registers and Receivers Of The Land OGices sha
hereafter be scveraly authorised 20 charge and re-
ceiye Tor their services in locating all military |
bounty land warrants issued since the tn day of
February, lS47, the same compensation or per |
centage TO which they entitled by law for sales
OF the public lands for cash, at the rate of 40
per acre, the said compensation 20 DO hereafter |
paid by tho assignccs or holders of such war. !
rants
The third section Of this act provides THAT Re.
gisters and Receivers whether in or out of Office
at the passage of this act their legal representa-
uvcs in case OF DEATH shall be entitled 10 receive
from the Trea Jury Of the United States for ser. |
vices heretofore performed in locating military |
bounty land warrants, the same rate OF compensa.
ton provided in the preceding section for services
hereafter to be performed after deductinp the |
amount already received by such officers under |
the act entitled AN act to require the holders of
military land warrants to compensate the Land |
Ohoers OF the United States for services In relation
to the location OF those warrants, approved May |