The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-19

before me personally came (here insert the name
Of The person 10 Dhom the certificate of location
sued,) and (here insert bte aud residence Of a
,oitneSs,) and the said there insert the Of he
,citness) being well known 10 me a credible
and disincrestcd person, duly sworn by Inc,
and on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said (here insert The name Of the person
TO ,chom the certificate Of location issued) and that
he is the same person 10 whom the within certif
cate Of location issued, and who executed the fore
going assignment; and his testimony being salts
factory evidence to Of that fact, the said (here
insert me name 81 The person 10 iohon the certificate
Of location issaed) thereupon acknowledged the
said assignment TO be his act and deed.
(OGicer's signaf,ve.)
Assignment No. and acknowledgment must
be endorsed upon the warrant, and No. 2 and ac-
encouragement upon the certificate OF location; and
must be attesed by two witnesses, acknow lodged
before Register or Receiver of n 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 oficers above spcci-
fed, except the Register Receiver Of Land
Otcc, II 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.
uincness OF his signature
All assignments of bounty land warrants issued
under the act OF September %, 1850, made be-
fore the date Of this act, invalid and void.
The same section provides, "That any person
entitled TO pre- cmption right to any land, shall be
entitled to use any such land warrant in payment
Of the same, ut the ratio of rs per acre for the
quantity OF land therein specified
by this provision, all persons entitled 10 prc-cmp
ton whether offered unofIered lands can use
a military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre- emptcd, reckoning the said warrant
at dollar and twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land so
claimed is at the usual or enhanced minimum.
Should the area Of the tract claimed exceed the
ILL.,. Al.
will have TO pay for the excess in cash, but IL il
should fall short he is not entitled TO refunding
of the excess.
Itisfurher provided by the salnc section "that he
warrants which have been, may hereafter be issued
in pursuance Of said laws Of this act, may be To-
Gated according 20 the legal subdivisions Of the
public lands, in ono body, upon any lands OF the
United States subject to private entry at the time
Of such location, at the minimum price: PROVIDED
further. That when said warrants shall be located
on lands which subject 20 entry at q greater
minimum than one dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, the locator Of said warrant shall pay
the United States in cash the difference between
the value Of such warrants Mt one dollar and TWEEN
ty five cents per acre and the tract of land located
on"
by these provisions, where the lands subject
to private entry nj one dollar and twenty five cent?
per acre, the holder Of an eighty acre warrant can
take any two forty acre lots, forming n compact
body Of eighty acres; and the holder Of n warrant
FOR ono hundred. and sixty acres can take two
n
compact body of one hundred and sixty acres.
Where the minimum price Of the ands, subject
to private entry proposed TO DC located IL than
% per acre, the holder OF the warrant can To-
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 docs not authorize the holder of nm
eighty acre warrant to locate herewith a forty
acre tract Of land at 81 80 per acre in full salts
faction thereof, but nc must locate, by legal subdi
visions, the compact body Of eighty acres, as near
as may be, and pay the difference in cash SO also
Of lGD-scre warrants.
Each warrant ia TO be distinctly and separately
located 40 that il follows that no body Of land ca n
be located by an assignee of various warrantccs
with a number Of toa,rGnts; nor can a pre-cmptor
in any case usc more than warrant in the loca-
ton OF the land pre- emptcd by him. and the o1
ccss, u any, must be paid fer by him i'm cash
The second section of this act provides THAT the
Registers md Receivers of the Land Offices shall
hereafter be sevcraly authorized To charge and re-
ceivc for their services in locating all military
bounty land warrants Issued since the lth day of
February, 1911, tho same compensation or per
ccntagc 20 which they orc entitled by law for ealcs
Uf the public lands for cash, at the rate of "A 25
per acre, the siid compensation 10 be hereafter
paid ny the assignccs or holders of such war
rants"
The third section Of this act provides "'rhat Re
gsters and Receivers, whether in out of office
at the passage Of this act, their legal representa-
tvcs in " death, shall he entitled 10 receive
from the Trca Jury Of the United States for ser
vices heretofore performed In locating military
bounty land warrants, the same rate OF compcnsa
ton provided in the preceding section for services
hereafter to I've performed, after dcducting the
amount already received by such officers under
the act entitled An net TO require the holders of
military land warrants to compensate the Land
Dihcors OF the United States for services in relation
TO the location OF those warrents,' approved May