The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-29

before me personally came (here insert the
Of the person 10 ohom the certificate of location
SUED and (hers insert The name and residence of
ucitneas, and the said (hers insert the name Of The
IDifness) being well known to me as a credible
and dislnterested person, was duly sworn by me,
and on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said (hsre insert the name of the person
TO chom the certificate Of location issued) and tina
he Is 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 me of that fact, the said (hsr,
insert The Of The person 10 ,chon he cerfifcai
| Of location issusd) thcreupon acknowledged the
| said assignment 10 be his act and deed.
(Ohcer's signatupc.)
Assignment No. and acknowledgement must
be endorsed upon the warrant, and No. 2 and &C.
acknowledgement upon the certificate of locations and
must be attested by two witnesses, acknow led ged
before Register or Receiver of Land Office a
Judge Of Court Of Record, Justice of the Peace,
or a Commissioner of Deeds resident in the State
from which he derives his appointment; and in
every instance where the scknowled gment is
made before either Of the officers above speci.
fed. except the Register or Receiver Of Land
Ofhcc, 1t must be accompanied by certifi-
cate, under zeal Of the proper authority, OF the
official character of the person before whom the
acknowledgment was made, and also Of the gen.
uineness Of bis signature.
All assignments of bounty land warrants issued
under the act Of September D, 1850, made be
fore the date Of this act, arc invalid and void
The came section provides, THAT any person
entitled to pre- empton right To any land, shall be
entitled to use any such land warrant in payment
OF the same, at the rate OF 25 per acre for the
quantity Of land therein specified"
by this provision, all persons entitled 10 prc-emp.
ton, whether on offered or unoffered lands can use
a military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre- empted, reckoning the sand warrant
at one dollar aud twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land 90
claimed is 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 excoss in cash but If IL
should fall short he s not entitled TO rcfundinr
Of the excess.
II il further provided by the came section that the
warrants which have been, ma hereafter be issued
in pursuance Of ssid laws of this act may be To-
Gated according to the legal subdivisions Of the
public lands, IN one body, upon any lands Of the
United statcs subject TO private entry at he time
Of such location, at the minimum price: PROVIDED
further, That when said warrants shall be located
on lands which nre subject TO entry at a greater
minimum than one dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, the locator Of said warrant shall pay 20
the United States in each the difference between
the value Of such warrants at ono dollar and TWEEN
~ i've cent? per acre and the tract OF land located
on"
BY these provisions, where tho lands are subject
90 private entry st dollar and twenty five CO Ia
per acre. the holder Of an eighty acre warrant
take any two forty-acre Tote, forming a compact
body Of eighty acres; and the holder of a warrant
for hundred and sixty acres can take two
eighty acre or four forty-nc tracts, forming n
compact body Of ono hundred and sixty AGREE
where the minimum price Of the lands, subject
TO private entry proposed TO be located ia more tha
= % per acre, tho holder Of the warrant can 10.
cate accordance with the instructions contained
IN the ioregoing paragraph, the quantity specified
In the warrant, by paying the difference in cash
This act docs not authorize the holder Of IN
cighty-acre warrant TO locate herewith a forty.
acre tract Of land at 81 80 per acre in foil salts
faction thereof, bot he must locate, by legal subd-
vsions, the compact body Of eighty acres az near
o. may be, and pay the difference IN cash So also
OF bl-aCre warrants.
Each warrant IL to be distinctly and separately
located, 90 that ~ follows that body Of land can
he located by an assignee Of various warrantees,
With n,imbr Of to1rranfs; nor can a pre-emptOr
IN any case use moro than one warrant in the lOca-
ton Of the land pre- tempted by him, and the or
ccss, II any, InDst be paid fr by bin in cash.
The second scctiOn Of this act provides THAT the
Registers and Receivers Of the Land Offices sba II
hereafter be sevcrally authorized 10 charge and
ceiYe ior their services in locating all military
bounty land warrants, issued snce the Ia day of
February, ls47, the same compensation or por
ccntage to which they entitled by law for saIea
Of the public lands FOR cash. at the rate of ( %
per acre, the said compensation 10 be hereafter
paid by tho assgnecs or holders Of such war.
rants
The third section Of this act provides orbat Re-
gisters and Receivers, whether IN or out Of office
IT the passage of tbis act their LEGAL representa-
tvcs in of death, shall be entitled TO receive
from the Urea ury 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 70 be performed, after dcducting the
amount already received by such officers under
The act entitled An act TO require the holders OF
military land warrants 20 compensate the Land
Oihcers Of the United States for services in relation
20 the looailen Of those warrants approved May