The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-10
j. BuTTERFIELp,
Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
NOTICE

NOTICE
Respecting private entries Of the lands heretofore ,ci
drdtcn from market in Illinois on account Of the IM
nO,s Central Railroad.
To prevent confusion and difficulty, the land
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
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 remained
unsold, in the order in which such townships will
be announced. The applications to enter at pri-
vate sale after the close Of the public SALE for
the location of land warrants, are to be made
IN uriting, and all the applications made OH any
one day will be examined after sunset Of that day
and be acted on the next day and where 1t shall be
discovered that two or more persons have applied
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
the next day thereafter at auction among such ap
pcants, and be awarded to the highest bidder,
according to law.
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-
priatcd public lands outside Of the six sections in
width on each side of the said railroad and its
branches, heretofore Withdrawn from market to
enable the State OF Illinois select the quantity Of
land to which che is entitled, and which have not
been selected for such purpose; and such applica-
tions will be received in the order in which the
townships will be announced, and, if the pressure
OF business should so require such applications will
be treated in the same manner as those above men,
toned.
Ed,rardsrilie aud Springfield Districts.
There being no lands within the EDwARps-
WILLIE District, and unsoid lands within the
SPRISGFIELp District, falling within the six-mie
limits of the railroad grant, such vacant and
unappropriatcd lands exterior to such limits, ~
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 the
selections for the road grant have been completed,
will, in like manner the aforesaid, be restored
TO private entry, location. at the following pc
riods, 10 witt the lands in EpwARDsviLLE DIsTRIcT
on Monday, the fiDslfsh day Of July next; and the
lands in the SpnisoFIELD DIsTnIcT on Monday, the
ttoenty- sirh day of July next.
No right of pre- empiion 10 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, $780, and prior 10 the
day when the land shall again be made scbect to
private entry as aforcsaid
Where locations are made by land warrants,
they will be received at the minimum price Of the
land, and any deficit Of the purchase money must
be paid in cash. in accordance with the regulations
prescribed by this office on ssd March last.
Given snder ny hand, a, the General Land OF.
fee, the third day of April, 1852.
Ap6-lawl3w J. BUTTERFIELD, Comm'r.