The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-04-14
From the Chicago Journal.
FORMS AND REGULATIONS.

we are IN receipt, from MIR. ButlerneId,
Commissioner Of the Land Office, of the pre-.
scrbed forms fixed by him for the assignment
and location of Land Warrants, which are as
follows:
Form for the assignment cfhe Warrant.
For value received, l, A. B., to whom the
within warrant No. was issued,
do hereby sell aud assign unto c. D., of
and to his heirs and assigns forever, the said
warrrnt, aed authorize hun to locate the same,
and receive patent therefore.
Witness my hand and seal, this
day of sIS5
Attest: Al IsEAL1
f F.
Form Of acknowledgment acherc the rcndor is
knorn to the officer taking the acknomiedg,
ment, = st- r.
SrATEoF COUNTY OF
Ga this day of sin the year
personally appeared (here insert the name
OF the Warrantee) t. me well known, and ac-
knowledged the foregoing assignment to be his
act and deed and certify, that the said (here
insert the name Of Uarantee) is the identical
person to whom the within warrant issued, and
who executed the foregoing assignment there
of.
(OGcers signature.)
Form Of Acknowledgment uhcre the rendor IS
not hmorm to the c0icer and his identity has
to be prored.
STATE OF COUNTY Of
On this day of lin the year
personally came before me (herc In
the name Of the Varrantee) and (here insert the
hume and residence cfa nitness) and the said
(here insert tic name Of tie witness being well
known to me a credible and dis Interested
person, was duly sworn by me, aud on his oath
declared and said, that he well knows the said
| (here insert the name Of Me Harrantee) and
that he Is the same person to whom the within
! Warrant issued, and who executed he fo-ego-
| ing assignment, and his testimony being sat.s-
factory evidence me of that fact and SAID
(here insertth name of the Waryantee,) there
upon acknowledged the said assignment to be
! his act and decd
Offices signature.)
Form for the assignment Of the Location
| No.2
For value received, |, A. b., TO whom the
within certificate OF location was issued, do
hereby sell and assign unto e. D., and 10 his
heirs and assigns for ever, the said certificate
"t location, and warrants and land therein de
scrlbed, and authorize him to receive The patent
therefore.
! Witness my hand and seal, this day OF
Attest: A. b. GsEAL
| + F.
q H.
Form tor acknowledgment araere the rendor is
personally knoem to the office taking the
| same
STATE OF COUNTY OF
| On this day of in the year
personally appeared (here insert The
name of the person to ,ohom The cert;fea Of To-
cation issued to me well knows, aud acknow-
edged the foregoing assignment to be his act
and deed; and certify, that the said (here in
Sert the name Of the person to mhom the certif-
cute Of location issued the identical person t.,
whom the within certificate of locations issued,
and who executed the foregoing assignment
| thereof.
Officers signature)
! Form of acknowledged 7ohcre the rendor is
not personally known to the officer, md ,chcre
has identity has to be proceed
STATE OF COUNTY OF
On this day Of lin the yeer
personally came before me (tere in
sert the name Of the person to ,chJm The certif-
cute Of location isSued) and there insert she
name ind residence Of acuness) and the said
| (herc insert the name Of the aoitnesS) being well
Known to me a credible and disinterested per-
son, was duly sworn by me, and on his oath,
declare and said that he well knows the said
| (herc insert tie name Of tie person to arh0,n the
certificate Of location issued,) and that he is the
same person TO whom the within certificate of
Location issued, and who executed the forego-
ing assignment: and his testimony being sis
factory evidence to me of that fact, the said
| (herc insert the name Of the person to ,chom tie
certificate Of locations issued thereupnn &C
knowledged the said assignment to be his act
and deco.
Officers sygniture)
Assignment No. J. and acknowledgment
must be endorsed upon the warrant, and No g
| and acknowledgment upon the certliicats of To-
cation; and must be aitested by two witnesses
acknowledged before Register of Receiver of
a Land Office, Judge Of court of Record,
Justice of the Peace, or Commissioner of
deeds resident in the State from which he de.
rives his appointment and in every instance
where the acknowledgement is made before any
officer other than the Register or Receive of a
land office, 1T must be accompanied by certfi-
cate, under seal of the proper authority, OF The
official character OF the person before whom
the acknowledgment was made, and also of the
genunsness OF his signature.
All assignments of bounty land warrants
issued under the act September 23lh, 1859.
made before the date of this act, are invalid and
void
The same section provides. "That any person
entitled to prescription right to any land, shall
be entitled to use such land warrant in payment
OF the same, at the rate of 1925 per acre for the
quantity Of land therein specified "
BY this provision, all persons entitled to pre-
empton, whether offered or unotfrred lands.
can use military bounty land warrant in pay
ment for the tract pre- empted, reckoning the
said warrant at 81 25 per acre for the quantity
therein specified, whether the land so claimed
at the usual enhanced minimum
NIL tha oT DI,
the amount called for in the warrant, the pre-
emptor will have to pay for the excess in cash,
but if it should fall short, he is not entitled to
refundng of the excess.
it is further provided by the same section
'That the warrants which bave been, or may
hereafter be, issued in pursuance OF said laws or
OF this act, may be located according to the lie.
gal 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: Prorided, further, That when
said warrants shall be located on lands which
are subject to entry at greater minimum than
81 % per acre, the locator of SAID warrant shall
pay to the United States, in cash, the difference
between the value of such warrants at 81 %
per acre, and the tract of land located on =
BY these provisions, where the lands are sub.
ject 10 private entry at IS 2o-10H per acre, the
holder OF an eighty acre warrant can take any
two forty acre lots, forming compact body of
eI9 hty acres; and the holder of warrant
for one hnudrtd and sixty acres, can take two
eighty acre, or four forty acre tracts, forming
compact body of one hundred and SIX
cres.
Where the minimum price of the lands, SUBJ
Ject to private entry proposed to be located is
more than 81 2o-i6O per acre. the holder of
the warrant can locate, in accordance with the
instructions contained in the foregon. para.
graph, the quantity specified in the warrant, by
paying the difference in cash.
This act does not authorize the holder of an
eighty acre warrant to locate Herewith a forty
acre tract of land at 81 5l-l0O per acre in full
satisfaction thereof, bat he must locate, by le-
gal subdivisions, the compact body of eighty
acres, as near may be, and pay the d. ference
in cash. So also Of l6O acre warrants, except |
in presumption cases as herein before stat.
ed.
Each warrant is to be distinctly and separate.
ly located, that it follows that no body ofiuud
can be located oy an assignee of various war
rants, with number Of carrants nor can |
pre- emptor in any case more than one war
rant in the location OF the land pre emptod nv |