The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-13
FORMS AND REGULATIONS
For the Assignment Of Land Warrants and
Locations.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE, March %, 1852.
DY THE FIRST SECTION of the act of Con gress,
- entitled IAN act making Land Warrants as
signable and for other PURPOSES" approved March
%, 1882, 1t is provided: THAT all warrants for mill
tary bounty land, which have been may hereafter
be issued under any law othe United States, and all
valid locations of the came which have been or
may hereafter be made, are hereby declared to be
assignabie, by deed or instrument of writing made
and executed efer the taking effect Of this act
cordug to such form, and pursuant to such regu-
iations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner
of the General Land Office, so as to vest the as
signee with all the rights of the original Of
the warrant or location"
In accordance with the provisions of this section
the following forms prescribed for the assign
ent VI the warrants and locations referred to, to
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 and
assign uuto &. D., Of and TO his heirs
and ASST gus forever, the sald warrant and author
izc him TO locate the same, and receive patent
therefor
Witness nv hand and seal, this - day Of,
Attest: Alb. [sEAL.l
E.F.
Oh
Form of acknowledgment ,otere The pendor is kno,cn
TO the officer taking the acknowledgment.
STATE OF -, COUNTY OF
On this - day of -. in the year
before personally came (here insert the name of the
1caTantee) to me well known, and acknowledged
the foregoing assignment to be his act and deed;
and certify that the said (here insert The name Of
tcdITdttee) is the Identical person to whom the
within warrant issued, and who executed the FORE
going ASST gnmcnt thereof
(OHca's signature
Form of acknowledgment ,rhere the uendor is not
knoton TO the officer, and has identity has to be
proceed
STATE Of -, COUNTY OF -.
On THE - day OF -, in the year -,
the t1arrantee) and (tere insert The and resi-
dence Of ioitness,) and the said (here insert The
name u The tcttness) being we'll known to me
credible and disintcrested person, was duly sworn
By me, and on his oath declared and said that he
well knows the said there insert the name of the
DHrrantee) 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 toarrantee) thereupon
acknowledged the said assignment to be his act
and deed. (OHcers 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 G. D., and to his heirs and assigns
forever, the said certificate Of location, and the
warrant and land therein described, and authorize
him to receive the patent therefor
Witness my hand md seal, this - day Of
-, 1855
Attest A. B. [sEAL]
G. II.
Form of acknowledgment toherc the pendor. is per-
sonuAy kHo,rn TO the officer taking the same.
STATE OF -, COUNTY OF -.
On this - day Of, in the year -,
before personally (here insert tie name of the
person to iohom the certificate Of location issue)
me well known, and acknowledged the foregoing
assignment TO be his act and deed; and certify
that the said (here insert the name Of the person to
,ohom The certificate Of location ssusd) is the iden
teal person to whom the within certificate OF To-
cation issued, and who executed the foregoing
oignment thereof.
(Ofcer's sisnat,ve.)
Form of acknowledgment ,chere the uendor is not
personally knOUn TO The officer, and ,ohere his
tdsntity kas TO be proved.
STATS OF -, COUNTY OF -.
On this - day of - in the year -,
before me personally came (here insert the name
Of the person TO chom the certificate Of location is
sued,) and (hsre insert the and residence Of
,oitness,) and the said (here insert the Of the
Dtthess) being well known to me credible
and disnterested person, duly sworn by me,
add on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said there insert the name of the person
TO :rio the certificate Of location issued) and that
he ia the same person to whom the within certif-
cate OF location issued and who executed the FORE
going assignment; and his testimony being salts
factory evidence to of that fact, the said hsre
insert The name Of the person TO ,chom the certificate
Of location issued) thereupon acknowledged the
said asSig nment to be his act and deed.
(OtCer's Signdture.)
be endorsed upon the warrant, and No. and
know led sneut upon the certificate of location; and
must be attcsted by two Witnesses, acknow led gcd
before Register or Receiver of a Land Office, a
Judge of Court of Record, n Justice of the Peace
a Commissioner of Deeds resident in the State
from which he derives his appointment; and in
every instance where the acknowledgment is
made before either OF the officers above speci-
fled, except the Register or Receiver Of 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 %, 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 came, at the rate Of % per acre for the
quantity OF land therein specified
BY this provision all persons entitled to pre-emP-
tion whether on offered or unoffered lands,
a military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre-enlpted, reckoning the said warrant
at dollar and twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land so
Claimed is at the usual or enhanced minimum.
Should the of the tract claimed exceed the
amount called for in the warrant, the pre- emptor
will have 20 pay for the excess in cash, but if it
should fall short, he is not entitled TO reiunding
of the excess.
Eis further provided by the same section "that the
warrants which have been may hereafter beissued
in pursuance Of ead laws or of this act, may be To-
Cdtcu hCCOTuI''B W NHo itS III suOusioiohe VI VIC
public lands in one body, upon any lands of the
United States, eubcct to private entry at the time
ofsuch location, at the minimum price: Provided
further, That when said warrants shall be located
on lands which subject to entry at a greater
minimum than one dollar and twenty. five cents
per acre, the locator of said warrant shall pay 70
the United States in cash the difference between
the value of such warrants at one dollar and TWEEN
ty five cents per and the tract of land located
on"
BY these provisions, where the lands are subject
to private entry at dollar and twenty five cen ts
per acre. the holder 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
eighty-acrc or four forty acre tracts, forming a
compact body of one hundred and sixty acres.
Where the minimum price of the lands subject
to private entry proposed to be located is tha
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
eghty-acre warrant to locate herewith n forty
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