The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-06-30
NOTICE
Respecting pirate entries Of The lands hereto
fore trithdrarn from market in Illinois on
account Of the Illinois Central

Respecting pirate entries Of Tie lands hereto
fore rithdrarn from market in Illinois on
account Of the Illinois 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 present that Applications for pirate
entries by cash orlocatons by land warrants,
Cat double the minimum price, will he received
the nsrt day, and from day TO day, forany land
in the several townships hch had been offered
at such public sale, and remained unsold, IN
the order in which such townships will be an
nounce6. The applications to enter at private
sale after the close of the public sale, or for the
| location of land warrants, are to be made IN
rriting, and all the applications made on any
| one day will be examined after sunset OF that
day, md be acted on the meat day; and where
| ii shall be discovered that two or more persons
have applied on the same day TO enter or To-
cate the same tract, such applications will he
regarded as being simultaneously made. and
such tract will be Put up on the next day there
after at auction among such applicants, and
be awarded TO the highest bidder, according
to law.
| After having acted on the pressing npplco'
lions for the double minimum lands, the land
| officers will announce that written applica
tons will be received for private entries by
| cash. or locaii0ns by land warrants, for any ii
the vacant and Incorporated public lands
outSide oil tn six sections in width on eacl
side of the said railroad and its branches
heretofore Withdrawn from market 10 enable
the State of Illinois to scect tho quantity o.
land to which she is entitled and which have
not been selected tor such purpose; and sucl
applications will be received in the order il
which the townships will be announced, and
if the pressure of business should 50 require
such applications will be treated in the SAINT
manncrfs those above mentioned.
EdicdrdsriHe and Springfield Districts.
There being no lands within the EDWARDS
WILLIE DIsTRIcT. and no unsold lands within
the SpRIxorIELD DISTRICT, falling within thu
six-mile limits OF the railroad grant, such va
cant and inappropriate lands exterior tt
such limits, lying within those districts, whici
have been withheld from private entry on nc
count of said road, and found to remain to thu
United States after the selections for the roa,
grant have been comrleted, will, in like man
ner as The aforesaid, he restored 10 private en-
try, or location at The following periods, IL
| wit the lands in EDwARDsvILLE DISTRICT OF
Monday, the trclhh day of July next; ant
the lands in the SPRISGFIELD DISTRICT OF
Monday, the frcafy-sich day of JHIv next.
No right Of presumption to any Of the public
lands which have been withheld from mhrke
on account Of the railroad grant, will he rec
ogniscd to have accrued in virtue OF settle
ment made thereon subsequent 10 Sep'cmoc
90, 1850, md prior 10 the day when The lane
shall again he made subject to private entry M
aforesaid.
Where locations are made by land warrants
they will be received at the minimum price o
the land, and any deficit of the purchase
money must he paid in cash, in acc"rdanc'
with the regulations prescribed by this Office
on 23d March last.
Given under my hand at the General Lam
Office the third day of April, 1852.
j. BUTTERFlELD,
| Glow Commissioner.