The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-16


On this - day of -, in the year -,
before me personally came (here insert the name
OF the person TO ohom the certificate Of location
sued, and (here insert the and residence of a
,oitness,) and the said (here the name of the
Ditness) being well known TO me as a credible
and disinerested person, was duly sworn by me,
and on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said (here insert the name of the person
10 chom the certificate Of location issued and that
he Is the same person to whom the within certifi-
cate Of location issued and who executed the fore
going assignment; and his testimony being satis-
factory evidence to of that fact, the said (here
insert the name Of the person 10 ,clom the certificate
Of location issued) thereupon acknowledged the
said assignment to DC his act and deed.
(OEcer's signattye.)
Assignment No. l and Acknowledgement must
be endorsed upon the warrant and No. 2 and ac-
acknowledgement upon the certificate of location; and
must be attested by two witnesses, acknow led eed
before a Register or Receiver of Land Office, a
Judge oil Court OF Record, Justice of the Peace,
or a Commissioned of Deeds resident in the State
from which he derives his appointment; and in
every instance where the Acknow ledgment is
made before either of the officers above speci-
ned, except the Register or Receiver of a Land
Once, At must be accompanied by a 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
uinencss Of his signature.
All assignments of bounty land warrants Issued
under the act OF September D, 1850, made be-
fore the date OF this act, are invalid and void
The same section provides, That any person
entitled TO pre- empuon right to any land, shall be
entitled 10 use any such land warrant in payment
Of the same, at the rate of 8 25 per acre for the
quantity OF land therein specified"
by this provision, all persons Untitled to pre-emp.
ton, whether on offered or unoflered lands can use
a military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract prc-empted, reckoning the said warrant
at one dollar and twenty five cents per acre for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land 30
claimed IL at the usual or enhanced minimum.
should the area OF the tract claimed exceed the
amount called FOR in the warrant, the pre- emptor
will have TO pay for the in cash. but If il
should fall short, he lie not entitled TO a rcfunding
of the excess.
tits further provided by the same section "thnt the
warrants which have been, may be
in pursuance Of said lave or Of this act NAV be To-
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: Provided
further, That when said warrants shall be located
on lands which arc subject to entry at a greater
minimum than one dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, the locator Of said warrant shall ma 10
the United States in cash the difference between
the value Of such warrants at one dollar and TWEEN
y five cents per acre and the tract Of land located
on"
BY these provisions where the lands are subject
to private entry at one dollar and twenty five nts
per acre, the holder Of an eighty acre warrant can
take any two forty-acre Tote, forming n compact
body OF eighty acres; and the holder Of warrant
Tor ono hundred and sixty acres can take two
eighty acre or four forty acre tracts, forming
compact body Of one hundred and sixty acres
Where the minimum price Of the lands, subject
TO private entry proposed to be located il more than
8 25 per acre, the holder Of the warrant can 10.
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 warrant TO locate herewith n forty.
acre tract Of land at b 80 per acre in full salts.
faction thereof, but he must locate by legal subd-
visons, the compact body Of eighty acres, as near
as may be, and pay the difference in cash So also
of l6O-acre warrants.
Each warrant ia to be distinctly and separately
located, that it follows that body Of land can
be located by an assignee Of various warrantees,
with number OF ,onyTnnfs; nor can n prc-cmptor
in any case use more than one warrantin tho foca-
ton OF the land pre- empted by him, and the ey.
cess any, must be paid for by him in cash
The second section Of this act provides THAT the
Registers and Receivers of the Land Offices shall
hereafter be severally authorized to charge and
ccive Tor their services in locating all military
bounty land warrants, issued since the lth 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 : rs
per acre, the said compensation TO be hereafter
paid by the 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 tho passage Of this act their leRa representa-
tives in Of death. shall be entitled to receive
from the Treasury 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 deducting 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
Ocers OF the United States for services in relation
to the location of those warrants, approved May