The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-11
aULATIONa
FORMS AND REGULATIONS
For the Assignment OF Land Warrants ant
Locations.

| lations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner
of the General Land Office, so as to vest the as.
signee with all the rights of the owners OF
| the warrant or location"
In accordance with the provisions Of this section,
the following forms are prescribed for the assign
ment ofthe warrants and locations referred to, to
Wit
FORM FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE
WARRANT.-No. l.
For value received, l, A. b., to whom the within
warrant No. - was issued, do hereby sell and
assign unto G. D., Of and to his heirs
and assigns forever, the said warrant and author
| ize him to locate the same, and receive patent
| therefor.
Witness my hand and seal, this - day Of,
Attest: b. (sEAL.]
E. Ell f.
Form of acknowledgment ,rhere the uerdor is kno,on
to the officer taking the acknowledgment.
sT on sis-d sSv Of % OF in the YEAR,
before personally came (here nsertt name Of the
| Darrantee) to me we'll known, and acknowledged
| the foregoing assignment to be his act and deed;
and certify that the said (here insert the Of
,oarrantee) is the identical person to whom the
within warrant issued, and who executed the fore
going assignment thereof
(OHcer's sisnature)
Form Of acknowledgment ,,here the ue.dor is no.
knOton TO The officer and his identity has to be
proceed.
STATE OF ---, COUNTY Of
On this - day of -, in the year -.
before me personally came there insert the name Of
the ,oarrantee) and (here insert the name and resi-.
dence Of tcttnfss,) and the said (here insert the
name Of the ,oitness) being we'll known to me as a
credible and dsinterested person, was duly sworn
by me- and on his oath declared and said, that he
we'll knows the said there insert the name Of the
,carrantee,) and that he is the person to whom
the within Warrant Issued, and who executed the
foregoing assignment, and his testimony being
satisfactory evidence to me of that fact, the said
there insert ne name Of the toarrantee) thereupon
acknowledged the said assignment to be his act
and deed. (OGcer's signat,tre.)
FORM FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE To-
CATION.-No. 2.
For value received, l, A. B., to whom the within
certificate Of location was issued, do hereby sell
and assign unto G. D., and to his heirs and assgns
forever, the said certificate Of location, and the
warrant and land therein described, and authorize
him to receive the patent therefor.
Witness my hand and seal, this -- day Of
A,,a lsS A.B. 1s..,,.
H.
Form IF acknowledgment ,ohere the vendor is per-
soncAy kno,on to the officer taking the same.
STATE OF -, COUNTY OF -.
On this -- day of -, in the year -,
before me personally there insertth name ohs
person to ,oom the certicate Of location issued) to
me well known, and acknowledged the foregoing
assignment to be his act and deed; and certify
that the said there insert the Of the person to
ohom the certificate Of location issued) is the idcn
teal person to whom the within certificate OF To-
cation issued, and who executed the foregoing as.
signmcnt thereof.
(O6icer's sisnat,re.)
Form Of ackno,ceds ,nsnt tohe,s the pendor is not
personally knoton to the officer. and ,ohere his
identity has to BE- proved
before me personally came (here insert the name
IF Tie per.on to .ohom the certificate Of location is
s"ed and (here insert the and residence ofa
,oness,) and the said (here insert tile name Of The
,Ditness) being well known to me as a credible
and disinterested person. was duly sworn by me,
aud on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said here insert the name Of the person
to ,ohom TIE certfc Of location issued and that
he ia the same person to whom the within certih-
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 name Of the person TO ,chom the certificate
Of location issusd) thcreupon acknowledged the
said assignment to be his act and deed:
(OGcer's sisnatlre.)
Assignment No. | and acknowledgment must
be endorsed upon the warrant, and No. and
acknowledgement upon the certificate of location; and
must be attested by two witnesses, acknowledged
before a Register or Receiver of Land Office, q
Judge of Court Of Record, Justice of the Peace,
o a 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-
fed except the Register or Receiver of Land
Office, it must be accompanied by certif-
cate, under seal Of the proper authority, of the
official character of tire person before whom the
acknowledgement was made, and also Of the gen.
uineness OF his signature.
All assignments of bounty land warrants Issued
under the act Of September 2S, 1850, made be-
fore the date OF this act, are invalid and void.
The section provides, "rhat any person
entitled to pre- cmption RICH, to any land shall be
entitled to use any such land warrant in payment
Of the same at the rate of 25 per for the
i,uap tity Ia nd fhprpi HpI
ny this provision, all persons entitled to re-emp
ton, whether offered unofTcred lands, can
a military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre- cmpted reckoning the said warrant
at one dollar and twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land
claimed ID Mt the usual or 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 cash, but if it
should fall short he is not entitled to refunding
of the excess.
tits further provided by the section "that the
which have been may hereafter be issued
in pursuance of said aws of this act, may be To-
Gated according to the legal subdivisions OF the
public landa 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 warrants shall be located
on lands which subject to entry at greater
minimum than 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
ty hive cents per acre and the tract OF land located
on"
BY these provisions, where the lands subject
to private entry at dollar and twenty. five
per acre, the holder of an eghty.acre warrant
| take any two forty lots, forming compact
body Of eighty acres; and the holder Of q warrant
| for one hundred and eixty acres can take two
eighty acre or four torty-acrc tracts, forming
compact body Of one hundred and sixty acres.
Where the minimum price Of the lands, subject
private entry proposed to be located is than
i % per acre, the no der of the warrant 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 does not authorize the holder of an
| elghty-acr warrant to locate herewith a forty
acre 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 may be, and pay the difference in cash. So also
| OF 6U-acre warrants.
| Each warrant ia to be distinctly and separately
located 80 that it follows that body Of land
| be located by an assignee of various warrantecs,
| with number Of todrrants; nor can pre-emptor
in any more than one warrant in the ioca-
| ton OF the land prc.eInpted by him, and the ex
Gees, ifany, IN al DC paid FL by him in cash.
The second section of this act provides "'rha the
| Registers and Rec evers of the Land Offices shall
| H.. g,,- 81.