The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-27

Commissioner Of the General Land Olfic
NUTICE

NUTICE
Respecting iDate entries Of the lands heretofore tD-
drdtcn from market IN Illinois account of the HI
nous Central Kdilrodd.
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 rrirate entries by cash
locations by land warrants, Cat double the
pfice,) will be received the neIt day. and from day
to day for any land in the several townships which
had been offered at such public sale, and remained
unsoid, in the order in which cuch townships will
be announced. The applications to enter at pri-
yatc sale after the close of the public sale, for
the location of land warrants, arc to be made
TN tcyiting, and all the applications made Oh any
one day will be examined after sunset Of that day,
and bc acted on the nex day; and where it shall be
discovered that two or more persons have applied
on the same day to enter locate the same tract,
such applications will be regarded as being stimuli
taneousy made, and such tract will be put up
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-
priated public lands outside of the six sections in
width each side of the said railroad and its
branches, heretofore withdrawn from market TO
enable the State of Illnois TO select the quantity of
land TO which she is entitled, and which have not
been selected for such purpose; and such applca-
tlOn5 VIII DC received IN tnc OrQCr In winch tDe
townships will be announced, and, if the pressure
OF business should require, such applications will
be treated in the same manner as those above men
toned.
Ed,oardsrHe and Springfield Districts.
There being no lands within the EpwARps-
VILE District, and no unsold lands within the
SPRiNeFIELp District, falling within the six mile
limits of the railroad grant, such vacant and
uuoppropriated lands exterior 10 such limits, ly
ing within those districts, which have been with
held from private entry account OF said road
and found 10 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, location, ut the following pc
riods to wit: the lands in EDwARDsvILLE DsTRicT
Monday, the foSfh day Of July next; and the
lands in the SPRisoFIELD DisTRicT on Monday, the
t,oerty siIb. day Of July next
No right of pre- emplion to any Of the public
lands which have been withheld from market
account OF the railroad grant will be recognised to
have accrued in virtue of settlement made thereon
subsequent to September 20, 1850, and prior TO the
day when the land shall again be made subject to
private entry aforo said.
Where locations made by land warrnnts
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, ut the General Land OF
tcc, the third day of April, 1852.
Ap6-lawl3w J. BUTTERFIELD, Comm'r