The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-21
FORMS AND REGULATIONS
or the Assignment OF Land Warrants and
Locations.


For the Assignment OF Land Warrants and
| Locations.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE, March %, 1852.
DY THE FIRST SECTION of the act Of Congress,
| ID entitled .'An act making Land Warrants
signable and for other purposes" approved March
% 1882 it is provided: sThat all for mill
tary bounty land, which have been or may hereafter
be Issued under any law ofthe United States and all
valid locations of the same which have been or
| may hereafter be made, are hereby declared to be
| assignable, by deed instrument of writing made
and executed after the taking effect of this act ac-
| cordng to such form, and pursuant to such regu-
lations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner
| Of the General Land Office, so as to vest the as
sigpee with all the rights OF the original owners oil
| the warrant or location"
In accordance with the provisions of this section,
the following forms are prescribed for the assign
ment of the warrants and locations referred to, to
| wit:
FORM FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE
| WARRANT mo. l.
For value received, !, A. B., to whom the within
| warrant No. - was issued, do hereby sell and
assign unto c. D., of and to his heirs
and assi gns forever the said warrant and author
| ize him to locate the same, and receive patent
| therefor.
Witness my hand and seal, this - day Of,
Attest: A. B.. [sEAL.l
e. E:E.
Form of acknowledgment ,ohere the vendor is knoon
to the officer taxing the acknowledgment.
sT on ,e or d S1v of OF in the year
before personally came there insert the name Of the
,parrantee) to me well known, and acknowledged
| the foregoing assignment to DO his act and deed;
and certify that the said (ere insert the name Of
| ,parrantee) ia the identical person to whom the
within warrant Issued, and who executed the FORE
| going assignment thereof
(OGcsr's signattre.)
Form of acknowledgment ,rhsre the uendor is not
Inn IN The
STATE OF -, COUNTY OF -;
On this day of -. in the year -.
the ,ca,rantee) and (hsre insert the and resi-
dence Of tDitness,) and the said there insert the
name Of The tritness) being well known to me as a
credible and disnterested person, was duly sworn
| by me, and his oath declared and said, that he
| well knows the said there insert the name Of the
toarrantee) and that he is the same person to whom
| the within Warrant issued, and who executed the
foregoing assi gnment, and his testimony being
satisfactory evidence to me of that fact, the said
there insert the name of the toarrantec) thereupon
acknowledged the said assignment to be his act
and deed. (0ticer's SIGNATURE
FORM FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE To-
CATlON.-No. 2.
| For value received, !, A. B., to whom the within
certificate of location was issued, do hereby sell
and assign unto c. D., and to his heirs and assigns
| forever, the said certificate of location, and the
warrant and land therein described, and authorize
| him receive the patent therefor.
Witness my hand and seal, this --- day OF
Attest: A. b. [sEAL.]
Form of acknowledgment ,chere the uendor is per-
sonaAy k"o,Dn to the officer taking the same
| STATE OF -, COUNTY OF -.
On this - day of -, in the year -.
before personally came (hers insert tie name Of the
person to ohom the certificate Of location issued) to
me well known, and acknowledged the foregoing
| assignment, to be his act and deed; and certify
that the said (hsre insert The name of the person to
,ohom the certificate Of location issusd) the iden
tcal person to whom the within certificate OF To-
cation issued, and who executed the foregoing as-
| signment thereof.
(OGcer's signat,re.)
Form of acknowledgment ,nhsre the pendor is not
| personally kno,on to the officer. and lphsre his
identity has to be proved
STATE OF -, COUNTY OF -
| On this - day of -, in the year -,
of the person to ,Dhom he certificate Of location is.
sufd, and there insert the and residence Of q
tuiness,) and the said (hers insert the name Of the
,oitness) being well known to me as credible
and on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said there insert the Of the person
to ,nhom the certificate Of location issued and that
| he 10 the same person to whom the within certif-
cate of loo alton sued, and who executed the FORE
going Segment; and his testimony being salts
factory evidence to me of that fact, the said (here
insert the name Of the person to 'chom the certificate
of location issued) thereupon acknowledged the
said assignment to be his act and deed.
(OGcer's signat,ve)
Assignment No. and acknowledgment must
| be endorsed upon the warrant and No. and &C.
acknowledgement upon the certifcat tie of location and
must be attested by two witnesses, acknowledge d
before Register or Receiver of Land Office, a
Judge of Court of Record, Justice of the Peace,
| or Commissioner Of Deeds resident in the State
from which he derives his appointment; and in
| every instance where the acknowledgment is
made before either of the officers above speci-
fed, except the Register or Receiver of a Land
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.
uneness of his signature.
All assignments of bounty land warrants issued
under the act of September %, 1880, made be.
fore the date of this act, are invalid and void.
The same section provides, That any person
entitled to pre- emption right to any land. shall be
entitled to use any such land warrant in payment
of the same, at the rate of 5 % per acre for the
quantity of land therein specified
by this provision all persons entitled to pre- emp
ton whether on offered unoffered lands can use
a military bounty land warrant in payment fol
the tract pre- empted, reckoning the said warrant
at one dollar and twenty five cents per acre, FOL
claimed ia at the usual or enhanced minimum.
Should the of the tract claimed exceed the
amount called for in the warrant, the pre- emptoI
will! have to pay for the excess in cash, but if il
should fall short, he s not entitled to refundine
of the excess.
Iis furher provided by the came section "that the
warrants hch have bean, may hereafter be issued
in pursuance of said laws of this act, may be To-
Gated according to the legal subdivisions of the
public lands, in body, upon any lands of the
United Staes subject to private entry at the time
| of such location, at the minimum price: Propidet
further, That when said warrants shall be locatcc
on lands which subject to entry at CREATE
minimum than one dollar and twenty five cent
| per acre. the locator Of said warrant shall pay Il
| he United cash hot
the value Of such warrants at one dollar and TWEEN
ty five cents per and the tract Of land locatet
on"
BY these provisions, where the lands are subjec
to private entry at dollar and twenty. five cent
per acre, the holder Of an eighty warrant cal
IN lie any uvo Tort -acre Inta fornnn cnmnac