The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-05-29
HOMESTEAD BILL.

The following is an abstract of the
Homestead Bill as it passed the House of
Representatives. 1t has no; come up in
the Senate:
The bill as now presented provides
that any person who is the head of a
family and citizen of the United States,
or any person who is the head CT fami-
ly and had become citizen prior to the
LIST day of January, 1852, as required by
the naturalization laws of the United
States, shall, from and after the passage
of this act be entitled TO enter, free of
cost, one quarter section of vacant and
unappropriated public lands. or a quan,i-
~ equal thereto, to be located in IA body,
in conformity with the legal subdivisions
of the public lands, and after the same
shall have been surveyed.
I'd. The person applying for the benc-
tit OF the act, to make an affidavit that
he or she is the head of family, and is
not the owner of any estate in land at the
time of such application, and has not dis
posed of any estate in land to obtain the
benefit of the act.
3D. section refers to the duties of the
Land Register.
4ih. All lands acquired under the pro-
Visions OF the act shall in no event be-
come liable TO the satisfaction o.. any
debt or debts contracted prior to the is
suing of the patent therefor.
9th. If at any time after filing the aft
davit required, and before the expiration
OF five years, it shall be proven tina, the
person locating on such lands shall have
changed his or her residence, or abandon
ed the said entry for more than six
months at any one time, the land to re-
vert back to the Government, and be dis
posed OF as other public lands are now by
law.
9th. If any individual, now resident
OF any State or Territory, and not ci,i-
zen of the United States, but at the lime
Of making application for the benefit of
the act shall have filed declaration Of
intention so TO do, as required by the
Naturalization laws of the United States.
and shall become a citizen of the same
before the issuing Of the patent, as made
and provided for in this act, he shall be
placed upon an equal footing with the ma
tive-born citizens.
7h. No individual is permitted to make
more than one entry under this act.
DIED IN THE STREEr.-A man some
40 years of age. supposed 10 be named
Baker, and TO be from Beaver Dlm. Wis.
died Saturday morning near the lower
bridge from the effects of exposure and
continued excess of the use of intoxica-
ting drinks. He had, it is said. been I'M
and down the river on steamboat decks
once or twice lately, in search of trunk
that he had lost. 1t is thought he was
landed from the Nominee on Friday even
ing.-Galena Jeff:
The ravages of the yellow fever at
Rio Janeiro are described as heart-rend-
ing. On an average, so cases are re-
ported daily among the crews of foreign
vessels. Twenty-three entire Swedish
crews have been swept away.
Mr.. CLAY.-The Washington Tele-
graph Of the 18th, says, "Our report is
still favorable. Mr.. Clay is free from
pam very tranquil, and the only citizen
OF tins great Republic who regards his
or regret"
1t is thought Gen. Scott will have %
or ~ OF the delegates in the Whip Ma.
tlonal Convention, from New Yorf. and
Mr.. Fillmore or 7. "A1