The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-30
FORMS AND REGULATIONS
For the Assignment Of Land Warrants and
Locations.

| GrNrRAL LAND OFFICE, March %, 1862.
| DY THE FIRST SECTION of the act Of Congress,
ID entitled "An act making Land Warrants as
signable and for other purposes" approved March
% 1882 it 10 provided: "That all warrants for mill
tary bounty land, which have been may hereafter
be issued under any law ofthe United States, and all
valid locations of the same which have been or
may hereafter be made, are hereby declared to be
assignabie, by deed or instrument OF writing made
and executed after the taking effect Of this act
cordng to such form, and pursuant to such regu-
lations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner
of the General Land Office, as to vest the as
signee with oil the rights of the original owners OF
the warrant or location" .s
In accordance with the provisions of this section,
the following forms are prescribed for the assign
ment of the warrants and locations referred to- to
wit:
FORM FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE
WARRANT.-No. l..
For value received, !, A. B., to whom the within
warrant No - was issued, do hereby sell and
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: Alb. [srAI.l
G. H.
Form Of acknowledgment ,Dhere Ire uerdor Is kno,Un
to the officer taking the acknowledgment.
STATE OF -, COUNTY Of
On this - day of in the year -,
before me personally came (here insert the name Of the
,cd,rantee) to me we'll known, and acknowledged
and certify that the said there insert the name Of
,oarrantee) ia the Identical person to whom the
within warrant issued, and who executed the FORE
going assignment thereof. a.'
(OGc9's rgnat.re)
Form of acknowledgment ,oAere the usndor is not
kno,o,s to the officer, and his identity has to be
proved, .....
STATE OF -, COUNTY oE-. 81.
A. Do, 49,
before me personally (here insert the name Of
the ,oarrantee) and (heye insert the name and resi-
dence Of a toitness) and the said there insert the
name Of the toitnsss) being we'll known to me "a a
credible and disinterested person, was duly sworn
by me, and on his oath declared and said, that he
well knows the said there insert the name Of the
,oarraNse,) and that he is the same person to whom
the within Warrant issued and who executed the
foregoing assignment, and his testimony being
satisfactory evidence to of that fact, the said
(here insrt the name Of the toarrantee) thereupon
acknowledged the said assignment to be his act
and deed. (0fSc1's sig'aassre.)
FORM FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE To-
CATION.-No. 2.
For value received, /, A. B., to whom the within
certificate of location issued, do hereby sell
and assign unto G. D., and to his heirs and assigns
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
-, 1856.
Attest: A. b. [sEAL.]
E.. F.
Form Of acknowledgment .ohere the rendor is per-
sonaiiy kno,on to the officer taking the same.
STAT. OF - COUNTY OF 1910
before 4% personally
person to ,oom the certificate Of location issucd) to
me well known, and acknowledged the foregoing
assignment to be his act and deed; and certify
that the said (hsre insert the Of the person to
tohom the certificate Of location issue) is the iden
teal person to whom the within certificate OF To-
cation issued, and who executed the foregoing g.
signment thereof
(O6icer's signature.)
Form Of acknowledgment ,Ohere the uendor Is not
personally knoson to the officer, and ,ohere his
identity has to be proceed.
sT on this Gs ds sUo of ~ OF in the
before me personally came lhere in..rt the name
Of the person to tohom the certificate Of location is
sued and (here insert the name and residence Of
,oitness) being well known to me as credible
and disinterested person, was duly sworn by me,
and on his oath declared and said that he well
to ,ohom the certificate Of location is,ued) and that
he is the same person to whom the within certif-
cate Of location issued, and who executed the FORE
factory evidence to of that fact the said there
insert the name Of the person to sohom the certificate
Of location issued) thereupon acknowledged the
said assignment to be his act and deed:
Assignment No. l and acknowledgment must
be endorsed upon the warrant, and No. and
know edgment upon the certificate of location; and
must be attested by two witnesses, acknowledged
before Register or Receiver of a Land Office, q
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 acknowledgement is
made before either OF the officers above speci-
fed, except the Register or Receiver of a Land
Office, it must be accompanied by a 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.
| uineness 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- emption right to any land shall be
entitled to use any such land warrant in payment
of the same, at the rate Of 81 Is per for the
quantity of land therein specified"
by this provision, all persons entitled to emp
ton, whether offered or unoffered lands,
q military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre- empted, reckoning the said warrant
at one dollar and twenty Ave cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land SO
| claimed is at the usual or enhanced minimum.
Should the 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.
It's further provided by the same section "that the
warrants which have been may hereafter be issued
in pursuance of said laws or 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 ut 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 one dollar and twenty. five cents
per acre, the locator Of said warrant ehall pay to
the United States in cash the difference between
the value of such warrants at one dollar and TWEEN
ty five cents per acre and the tract of land located
on"
BY these provisions, where the lands are subject
to private entry at dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, the holder of an eighty. warrant can
take any two forty acre lots, forming compact
body Of eighty acres; and the holder Of warrant
for one hundred and sixty acres can take two
eighty acre or four forty acre 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 more than
81 % per acre, the holder Of the warrant To-
cate, in accordance with the instruction 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
eighty acre warrant TO locate Herewith forty
acre truct Of land at 81 80 per in full salts
faction thereof but he locate, by legal subdi-