The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-07
JIICI OI tIiC O6ItCIdI LNIl
NOTICE
.e entries W the lands here
rket IN Illinois on account


Respecting private entries Of the lands heretofore NTH
draicn from market IN Illinois account Of the III
nOis Central railroad.
To prevent confusion and difficulty, the land
officers after closing all the business Of the public
sales above proclaimed, will announce to those pre-
sent that applications for private entries by cash
locations by land warrants, (at double the minimum
pics,) will be received the merit day, and from day
to day for any land in the several TOWNSHIP which
had been offered at such public sale, and remained
unsold, in the order in which such townships will
be announced. The applications TO enter at pri-
vate sale after the close of the public sale, for
the location of land warrants, are to be made
in ,criting, and all the applications made on any
one day will be examined after sunset of that day,
and be acted on the neIt day; and where it shall be
discovered that two or more persons have applied
on the same day TO enter or locate the came tract
such applications will be regarded as being stimuli
tancousy made, and such tract will be put up on
the next day thereafter at auction among such ap
plicants, and be awarded to the highest bidder,
| according to law.
After having acted on the pressing applications
for the double minimum lands, the land officers
will announce that written applica tions will be
celved for private entries by cash, or locations by
land warrants, for any Of the vacant and unappro-
priated public lands o,tside of the six sections in
width on each side OF the said railroad and its
branches, heretofore withdrawn from market to
enable the State of Illinois to select the quantity of
land to which she is entitled, and which have not
been selected for such purpose; and such apphca
tions will be received in the order in which the
of business should SO require, such applications will
be treated in the same manner those above men
toned.
EdtDardsviHe and Springfield Districts.
There being no ands within the EDWARDS
WILLIE District, and unsold lands within the
SrRIssrfELD District, falling within the ix-miic
limits Of the railroad grant, such vacant and
unnppropriatcd lands exterior to such limits, ly
ing within those districts, which have been with.
held from private entry on account Of said road,
and found TO remain TO the United States after the
selections for the road grant have been completed, ,
will, in like manner the aforesaid, be restored
to private entry. or location, Mt the following pc
riods, TO wit: the lands in EpwAapsviLLE DisTRicT
on Monday, tho f,ceJM day OF July next; and the
lands in the SrnserIELp DisTRIcT on Monday, the
f,oenfy fy- sirh day Of July next.
No right of pre- -emption to any OF the public
lands which have been withheld from market on
account of the railroad grant will be recognised to
have accrued in virtue Of settlement made thereon
subsequent to September 90 1850. and prior to the
day when the land shall again be made subject TO
private entry as Aforesaid.
Where locations made by land warrants,
they will be received at the minimum price of the
land, and any deficit Of the purchase money must
be paid in cash, in accordance with the reg uiatons
prescribed by this office on 23d March last.
Given under my hand, at the General Land or
fee, the third day of April, 1862.
Ap6-lawl3w J. BUTTERFIELD, Comm'r