The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-24
j. BUTTERFIELD.
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
NOTICE

NOTICE
Respecting private entries @ the lands hereteto ore ,ci-
drdcn from market IN Illinois account of the HI
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 prarde entries by cash
locations by land warrants, (at double the minimum
price, will be received the nert day, and from day
to day, for any land in the several townships 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, to be made
IN Urittng. and all the applications made on any
one day will be examined after sunset of that day
and be acted the neat day; and where it shall be
discovered that two or more persons have applied
on the same day to enter or locate the tract,
such applications will be regarded being stimuli
taneousy made, and such tract will be put up on
the next day thereafter at auction among such ap-
plicans, 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 applications will be
cevcd for private entries by cash, or locations by
land warrants, for any OF the vacant and unappro-
priatcd public lands outside of the six sections in
width each side of the said railroad and its
branches, heretofore Withdrawn from market 10
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 applica-
tions will be received in the order in which the
tow nshps will be announced, and, If the pressure
of business should require such applications will
be treated in the same manner as those above mem
toned.
Edi1ardsuHe and Springfield DISTRICTS.
There being no lands within the EDWARDS
WILLIE District, and unsold lands within the
SPRISGFIELp District, falling within the ix-mile
limits Of the railroad grant, such vacant and
unappropria ted lands exterior to such limits, ly
ing within those districts, which have been with
held from private entry 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 at the following pc
RODS, to wit: the lands in EpwARpsvILLE DIsTRIcr
on Monday, the ftoefh day of july next; and the
lands in the SPRiSoriELp DISTRICT on Monday, the
tpenfy- 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
have accrued in virtue of settlement made thereon
subsequent TO September 30 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 regulations
prescribed by this office on 23d March last
Given under my hand, at the General Land Of.
ice, the third day of April, 1852.
Ap6-law13w J. BUTTERFIELD, Comm'r