The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-08
Form Of acknowledgment ,ohere the uendor is no
personally knoUn TO the officer, and tohere hi
identity has TO be proceed.

STATE OF -, COUNTY OF
On this - day of -, in the year -,
Of the person TO tchom the certificate Of location is
sued) and (here insert the name and residence of a
tDifness,l aud the snid (here insert the Of the
tCitRess) being well known 10 me a credible
and disInterested person, was duly sworn by me,
and on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said (here insert the of the person
TO sChom The certificate Of location issued and that
he ID the same person to whom the within certif-
cate OF IL, alton issued, and who executed the FORE
going assignment; and his testimony being salts
factory evidence to me of that fact the said there
insert the Of the person 10 lcom the cert fcate
= Of location issued) thereupon acknowledged the
said Assignment to be his act and deed. -
..# (Oficer's sisnature.)
Assignment No. and acknowled gment must
be endorsed upon the warrant and No. and c.
know ledguent upon the certificate of locations and
must be attes,ed by two witnesses, acknowIed ged
before n Register or Receiver of a 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-
he'd, except the Register or Receiver OF a Land
Ohcc, it must be accompanied by 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 %, 1880 made be-
fore the date of this act, invalid and void.
The same 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 came, at the rate of S 25 per acre for the
quantity of land therein specified"
BY this provision, all persons en- titled to pre- emp
ton, neither offered or unoffered lands, use
military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre-empted, reckoning the said warrant
at dollar and twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land so
claimed ia at the usual or enhanced minimum
Should the area of the tract claimed exceed the
"a 10, tAr he
will have 10 pay for the in each, but if it
should fall short, nc is not entitled to refunding
of the excess.
s further provided by the same section s'that The
warrants which have been 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 one body, upon any lands OF the
United States, subject to private entry at the time
of such location, at the minimusl price: Provided
further, That when said warrants shall be located
on lands which are subject. TO entry at a greater
minimum than one dollar and twenty five cents
per acre the locator of said warrant shall pay to
the United States in cash the difference between
the value OF such warrants at one dollar and TWEEN
tyfVe cents per and the tract of land located
on"
BY these provisions, where the lands are subject
to private entry at dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, the holder Of an eighty acre warrant can
take any two forty acre lots, forming a compact
body of eighty acres; and the holder of warrant
for one hundred and sixty can take two
eighty acre or four forty acre tracts, forming a
Where the minimum price of the lands, subject
TO private entry proposed to he located is more than
81 % per acre. the holder of the warrant can To-
cate in accordance with the instr uctons conta ned
in the foregoing paragraph, the quantity specified
in the warrant, by paying the difference in cash.
This act docs not authorize the holder of an
eighty acre warrant to locate herewith n forty
tract of land at So 80 per acre in full salts.
faction thereof but he must locate, by legal subdi-
visions the compact body of eighty acres as near
may be- and pay the difference in cash. So also
Of l6o-ncre warrants.
Each warrant is to be distinctly and separately
located, 50 that ii follows that no body Of land ca
be located by assignee of various warrantees,
with a number Of Darrdnts; nor can pre-emptor
in any case use more than one warrant in the oca-
ton OF the land pre-empted by him, and the ex.
Gees, il any, must be paid f. By him in cash
The second section of this act provides That the
Registers and Receivers of the Land Offices shall
hereafter be scveraliy authorized to charge and re-
ceivc for their services in locating all military
bounty land warrants, issued since the tn day Of
February, lS47, the same compensation or per
centage TO which they are entitled by law for sales
Of the public lands for cash, at the rate of 81 25
per acre, the said compensation to be hereafter
paid 10y the a5sIgnees holders of such war
rants
The third section Of this act provides THAT Re.
gisters and Receivers, whether in or out of office
at the passage {" tins act their legal representa-
tves ia case Of death. shall he entitled to receive
from the Trca.ury Of the United States, for SER
vices heretofore performed in locating military
bounty land warrants, the same rnte Of compenea
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 relation
TO tho location Of those warrants.' approved May