The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-19

knoson to the officer, and his identity has to be
sT on tsis = d s9V of OF in the year
before me personally came (hsre insert the name Of
the ,oa,rantee) and (here insert the and resi-
dence Of toitness) and the said there insert the
| name Of the ioitr,eSS) being well known to me as
credible and disinerested 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
tcurantee) 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 me of that fact, the said
(hee insert the name Of the ,carra,rtee) thereupon
&C know led ged the said ASST gnment to be his act
and deed. (Ofcer's signature
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 c. 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.l
| Eff.
Form of acknowledgment ,Dhsre the uendor is per-
sonaAy kno,on to the officer taking the same.
sTATE OF -, COUNTY OF 49, ,
before ' me personally came (hers nserte name Of
person TO icho the certificate Of location issued to
| me we'll known, and acknowledged the foregoing
assignment to be bis act and deed; and certify
that the said there insert the Of the person to
,ohom the certificate Of location issued) is the iden
teal person to whom the within certificate OF To-
cation issued, and who executed the foregoing as.
signment thereof.
(OGcer's signat,re.)
Form Of acknowledgment ,chere the uendor is not
personally k,,o,on to The officer. and .Dhere his
identity has to be proceed.
STATE OF -, COUNTY OF -.
n,,th loy nf in flra
before me personally came there insert the name
Of the person TO tohom The certca Of location is
sued and (here insert the and residence Of
,oitness) and the said there insert The Of the
tcitness) being we'll known to me as credible
and disinterested person, was duly sworn by me,
| and on his oath declared and said that he well
knows the said (tere insert the name Of The person
to tcho the certificate of location issued,) and that
| he is the same person 70 whom the within certih-
cate of ocationissued, 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 10 chom The certificate
Of location issued) thereupon acknowledged the
said assignment to be his act and deed.
| (OGcer's signattpe)
| Assignment No. ! and acknowledgment must
| be endorsed upon the warrant, and No. 2 and &C.
knowledgmen upon the certificate of location; and
must be attested by two witnesses, acknowledged
| before Register or Receiver Of a Land Office, a
Judge of a Court of Record, Justice of the Peace
| or 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 certih-
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.
| uincness of his signature.
All assignments of bounty land warrants issued
under the act Of September IS, 1850, made be-
fore the date Of this act are invalid and void.
i The same section provides, THAT any person
entitled to pre- .empton right to am land shall be
entitled to use any such land warrant in payment
of the same at the rate of 81 % per acre for the
quantity of land therein specified"
BY this provision, all persons entitled to pre-emp-
ton, whether offered or unoffered lands, use
a military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre- empted reckoning the said warrant
at one dollar aud twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land 30
claned is at 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 il it
should fall short he is not entitled to refunding
| of the excess.
warrants which have been, may hereafter beissued
in pursuance of said laws 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 warrants shall! be located
on lands which are subject to entry at a greater
minimum than one 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 five cents per and the tract OF land located
o."
| By these provisions where the lands are subject
to private entry Mt one dollar and twenty five cent?
per acre. the holder Of an eighty acre warrant can
, take any two forty acre iots, forming compact
body Of eighty acres; and the holder Of a warrant
for one hundred and sixty acres can take two
eighty-acre four forty acre tracts, forming a
compact body Of one hundred and sixty acres.
| o lands, subject
to private entry proposed be located, ia than
ST IS per acre, the holder Of the warrant can To-
cate IN accordance with the instructions contained
in the foregoing paragraph, the quantity specified
in the warrant, by paying the difference in cash.
y This act does not authorize the holder Of an
eighty acre warrant to locate herewith forty
acre tract of land at 50 80 per acre in full salts
faction thereof, but he must locate by legal subdi
visions, the compact body Of eighty acres, as near
as may be, and pay the difference in cash So as1
of l69-acre warrants.
Each warrant Ia TO be distinctly and separately
located, that il follows that body Of lard c1r
be located by an assignee of various warrantecs
with number of Uarrants; nor can a pre-cmptor
in any case use more than one warrantln the l0ca
. ton of the land pre- cmpted by him, and the ex
cess, if any, most be paid fer by him in cash.
The second section of this act provides "That the
Registers and RECEIVERS Of the Land Offices shal
hereafter be scveraily authorized TO charge and re
4 ccivc for their servicos in locating all military
bounty land warrants, issued since the llh day o
February, lS47 the sauce compensation or pei
centage to which they are entitled by law for sale
| Of public !ands for cash, at the rate oil 5 u
!; per acre, the said compensation to be hereafter
paid by the assignees or holders of such war
II rants"
The third section ofthis act provides "That Re
gisters and Receivers, whether in or out OF otlc'
at the passage Of this act, their legal representa-
tives in case Of death shall be entitled to receive
from the Treasury of the United States, for ser
" vices heretofore performed in locating military
J bounty land warrants, the came rate of compensa
ton provided in the preceding section for service
| hereafter to be performed, after deducting thu
- amount already recei'sh by such officers undo
The act entitled 'An to require the holders o
| military land warrants 10 compensate the Lane
Officers of the United States for ices in relation