The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-12
NOTICE


Respecting private entries the lands heretafors ,OtA
drdion from market IN Illinois on account Of the Ilt
nois Central Railroad.
To prevent confusion and difficulty, the lane
officers, after closing all the business Of the public
sales above proclaimed, will announce to those pre-
sent that applications for private entries by cash OF
locations by land warrants, tat double the minimum
price, will be received the nert day, and from day
to day, for any land in the several townships which
had been offered at such public sale, and remainee
unsold lin the order in which such townships viii
be announced. The applications to enter at pri
vatc sale after the close Of the public sale, or fo
the location of land warrants, are to be made
in priting, and all the applications made on any
one day will be examined after sunset OF that day
and be acted on the nert day. and where it shall be
discovered that two or more persons have apphet
on the same day to enter or locate the same tract
such applications will be regarded as being stimuli
taneously made, and such tract will be put up or
the next day thereafter at auction among such ap
plicants, and be awarded to the highest bidder
according TO law. .... .. s...
After having acted on the pressing applications
for the double minimum lands, the land officers
will announce that written applications will be re-
ceivcd for private entries by cash. or locations by
land warrants, for any OF the vacant and unappro'
prated public lands outside OF the Six sections In
width on each side of the said railroad and itt
branches, heretofore Withdrawn from market t.
enable the State of Illinois to select the quantity oil
land to which she is entitled, and which have not
been selected for such purpose; and such appllca
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,oardsuile and Springfield Districts.
There being lands within the EDWARDS
VILE District. and ansold lands within thu
SPnINGrIELD District, falling within the six milk
limits of the railroad grant, such vacant ant
unappropriated lands exterior to such limits, ly
ing within those districts, which have been with
held from private entry on account OF said road
and found to remain to the United States after tn,
selections for the road grant have been completed
will, in like manner the aforesaid, be restored
to private entry, or location, at the following pc
RODS, to wit: the lands in EpwARDsvILLE DIsTRIc1
on Monday, the trpsLfh day of July next; and The
lands in the SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT on Monday, the
tirenty- sirh day Of July next
No right of pre- emption to any Of the public
lands which have been withheld from market on
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 It
private entry as aforesaid.
Where locations made by and warrants
they will be received at the minimum price Of thu
land, and any deficit of the purchase money mus
be paid in cash, in accordance with the regulations
prescribed by this office Odd March last
Given under my hand, at the General Land or
fee, the third day of A pril, 1852.
Ap6-lawl3w J. BUTTERFIELD, Comm'r.