The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-03
j. BUTTERFIELD,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
NOTICE

NOTICE
Respecting Pripate entries Of the lands heretofore Nth
drd,on from market in Illinois on account Of the Hi
nots 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 prirdfe entries by cash
locations by land warrants, lat 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 toriting, and all the applications made on any
one day will be examined after sunset of that day,
and be acted on the nest day; and where il 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 y made, and such tract will be put up on
the next day thereafter at auction among such ap-
plicants, 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
ceived for private entries by cash, locations by
land warrants, for any of the vacant and unappro-
priated public lands outside of the six sections in
width each side of the said railroad and its
branches, heretofore withdrawn from market to
enable the State of Illinois to select the quantity of
land to which che is entitled, and which have not
been selected for such purpose; and such appca-
uODS VIII De received In the OrdcF In wnlCD the
townships will be announced, and, If the pressure
Of business should require, such applications will
be treated in the same manner as those above men,
toned.
Ed,Dardspilfe and Springfield Districts.
There being no lands within the EDWARDS
vILLs District, and unsoid lands within the
SPRISGFiELD District, falling within the elk mile
limits of the railroad grant, such vacant and
unappropriated lands exterior to such limits, ly
ing within those districts, which have been with
held from private entry account Of said road,
and found TO 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, or location, at the following pc
riods, to wit: the lands in EDwARDsvILLE DIsTaicT
on Monday, the tpslfh day of July next; and the
lands in the SPRlSoFiELD DISTRICT on Monday, the
t,oenty- sirh day OF July next.
No right of pre- empion TO any of the public
lands which have been withheld from market on
account OF the railroad grant will be recognised
have accrued in virtue of settlement made thereon
subsequent TO September 20, 1850, and prior the
day when the land shall again be made subject to
private entry as aforesaid
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 regua
prescribed by this office on 23d March last.
Given under my hand at the General Land OF.
flee, the third day Of April, 1852
Ap6-lewl3w J. BUTTERFIELD, Comm'r.