The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-29

Form OF acknowledgment trhpe NE UendOr Is not
personally knotpn TO the officer. and ichre his
identity has TO be proceed.
STATE OF -, COUNTY OF --.
On this - day of -, in the year -,
personally came before me (here insert the name
Of the person TO tUhom HE certificate Of location rs
sued and (tsre insert the and residence of a
tcitnsss,) and the said (here insert the Of the
tciinsss) being we'll known TO me credible
and disinterested person, wac duly sworn by me,
and on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said here insert the of the person
TO ,chom Ms certificate Of location issued) and that
he 10 the same person to whom the within certIfi-
cate Of location issued, and who executed the FORE
going assignment; and his testimony being salts
factory evidence to of that fact the said there
insert the Of the person 10 ohom The cerhf cafs
Of location is,usd) thereupon acknowledged the
said assignment TO be his act and deed.
(Oficer's signafue)
Assignment No. | and acknowledgment must
be endorsed upon the warrant, and No 2 and ac.
knOwlcd gnient upon the certificate Of ocation and
must be attested by two witnesses, Acknowledged
before Register Receiver of Land Office,
Judge Of Court of Record, a Justice Of the Peace,
Commissioner OF Deeds resident in the State
from which he derives his appointment; and in
every instance where the ackno wedgment is made
before any officer other than the Register or Re-
ceivcr of Land Office, it must be accompanied
by certificate, under seal Of the proper authority,
OF the official character OF the person before whom
the acknowledgement was made, and also OF the
genuinencss 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- oinpton right to any land, shall be
entitled to use any such land warrant in payment
Of the same, at the rate OF s % per for the
quantity Of land therein specified"
BY this provision, all persons entitled TO pre-emp.
ton whether on offered or unoffered lands can use
a military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre-empted, reckoning the said warrant
at ono dollar and twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land go
claimed is at the usual enhanced minimum.
Should the area of the tract claimed exceed the
amount called for in the warrant the pre- emptor
will have to pay for the excess in each, but If it
should fall short, he is not entitled TO refunding
Of the excess
Its further provided by the same section othat the
warrants which have been, 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: Provided
further, That when said warrant shall be located
on lands which are subject 10 entry at a greater
minimum than one dollar and twenty five cents
per hcre, 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
~ five cents per and the tract Of land located
on !"
By these provisions, where the lands are subject
90 private entry Mt dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, the holder Of an eighty acre warrant can
body Of eighty acres; and the holder Of warrant
for one hundred aud sixty acres can. take two
eighty-acre four forty acre tracts, forming
compact body Of one hundred and sixty acres.
Where the minimum price Of the lands, subject
TO private entry proposed TO be located s than
s % 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 docs not authorize the holder Of
eighty acre warrant to locate herewith forty
acre tract of land at 50 90 per acre in full salts
faction thereof but be locate by legal subdi-
visions the compact body Of eighty acres, near
az may be- and pay the difference IN cash. So also
Of lGJ-acre warrants, except IN pre-emption cases
as hereinbefore stated
Each warrant il 10 &c distinctly and separately
located that IL follows that no body Of land
be located by any assignee of various wsrrantecs,
with number Of UorTnnts; nor can a pre-emptor
in any case more than one vibrant in the loca-
ton Of the land pre-empted by him, and the ex-
cess, if any, must be paid fr by him in cosh.
The second section of THE act provides That the
Registers and Receivers Of the Land Offices shall
hereafter be severaly authorized to charge and re-
ceive for their services in locating all military
bounty land warrants Issued since the 18th day of
February, ls41, the same compensation or per
centoge TO which they entitled by law for sales
Of the public lands for each, at the rate Of = %
per acre. the said compensation TO be hereafter
paid by the assignecs or holders of such war
r,nts"
The third section Of this act provides THAT Re
gisters and Receivers, whether In or out OF office
the passage Of this act, their legal representa-
tives in of DEATH shall be entitled to receive
from the Urea ury Of the United States, for SER
vices heretofore performed in locating military
bounty land warrants. the same rate OF compensa
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 20 require the holders Of
military land warrants to compensate the Land
Officers Of the United States for services in relation
10 the location Of those warrants, approved May