The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-04


STATE or ---, COUNTY OF --.
On this -- day of -, in the year -,
before personally came (here insert the name
of fhe person TO phom The fcate of location is
surd aud (heJe insert The name and residence of a
ioifHeSs) aud the said (here insert the Of the
icitaeSs) being well known TO u credible
and disntercstcd person, was duly sworn by me,
aud on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said (here iaseyt The name Of The person
TO tohon He certificate Of location issued and that
he Is the same person 10 whom the within certiii-
cate OF location Issued, and who executed the fore
going assignment; and hls testimony being salts
factory evidence TO me of that fact, the said (here
insert The Of The person 10 lchon the certificate
Of location issted) thereupon acknowledged the
said assignment to be his act and deed.
(OGic1's signafUs.)
Assignment No and acknowledg ment must
be endorsed upon the warrant, and No. and &C.
acknowledgement upon the certificate Of location; and
must be attested by two witnesses, acknowledge
before a Register Receiver Of a Land Office,
Judge of Court OF Record, Justice Of the Peace,
n Commissioner Of Deeds resident in the State
from which he derives his appointment; and in
every instance where the acknowledgment 10
made before either of the officers above spcci-
fed, except the Register Receiver Of a Land
Othce, II must be accompanied by a ccrih-
cate, under seal of the proper authority, of the
official character OF the person before whom the
acknowledgement was made and also of the gen
uncness OF his signature
All assignments of bounty land warrants issued
under the act OF September ., 1850, made be-
fore the date of this act, are invalid and void.
The same section provides, THAT any person
entitled To pre- emption right 10 any land. shall be
entitled 10 use any such land warrant in payment
Of the same, at the rate Of - % acre for the
quantity of land therein specified"
by this provision all persons entitled TO pre- emp.
ton whether on offered unofIered lands, can use
a military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre- empted, reckoning the said warrnnt
nj dollar and twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein speclfi-d, whether the land
claimed il at the usual or enhanced minimum.
Should the area Of the tract claimed exceed the
amount called for in the warrant, the pre- cmptor
will have 60 pay for the excess in cash. but II il
should fall short, he IL not entitled to rciundng
Of the excess
Its further provided by the same section "lhat the
warrants which have been or may hereafter be issued
in pursuance of said lave 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 minimum price; ProVded
further, That when said warrants shall be located
lands which subject to entry at a creator
minimum than one dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, the locator Of said warrant shall pay 10
the United States in cash the difference between
the value OF such warrants at one dollar and twen-
ty five cents per acre and the tract Of land located
on ,"
BY these provisions, where the lands are subject
to private entry nj one dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, the holder Of an eighty acre warrant
take any two orty lots, forming a compact
body Of eighty acre.; and the holder of warrant
for ono hundred and sixty acres can take two
eighty acre or four forty tracts, forming
compact Dody OF one hundred aud sixty acres.
Where the minimum price Of the lands, subject
TO private entry proposed TO be located s more than
8 % per acre, the holder Of the warrant can 10.
cate, in accordance with the instructions contained
in the foregoing paragraph, the quantity specified
in the warrant, by paying the difference in cash.
This act does not authorize the holder of an
eighty,actc warrant to locate herewith a forty
acre tract Of land OF 81 30 per acre in full salts
faction thereof, but he must locate, by legal subdi
Visions the compact body Of eighty acres ne near
a. may be, and pay the difference in cash So also
Of lbO-acre warrants.
Each warrant is to be distinctly and separately
located, so that il follows that body of land
be located by an assignee Of various warrantces
, -.. -'nnnbr of warrants; nor can pre-emptor
in any case use more than ono warran, -. .s lnca-
ton Of the land pre-empted by him, and the ex
cess, ifany, must be paid fl by him in cash. i
The second section of this act provides "That tn
Registers and Receivers of the Land Offices shall
hereafter be soverally authorized to charge and
ceive for their services In locating all military
bounty land warrants, issued since the 18th day OF
February, 1871, the same compensation or per
ccntsge 10 which they entitled by law for sales
Of the public lands for cash, at the rate of y 25
per acre, the said compensation 70 be hereafter
paid by the assignces or 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 Of this act their legal representa-
uvcs IN Of death, shall be entitled 10 receive
from the Trca-ury of the United States for scr
vices heretofore performed in locating military
bounty land warrants the came rate of componsa
ton provided in the preceding section for services
hereafter 20 be performed, after dcductinR the
amount already received by such officers under
the act entitled AN act 10 require the holders Of
military land warrants 10 compensate the Land
Officers OF the United States for services in relation
TO the location OF those warrants approved May