The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-10
Form Of acknowledgment ,ohere the vendor Is knO,D,
to the officer taking The acknowledgment.

rOTm OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT tcheTe the vendor - not
kno,on to the officer, and his identity has to be
STATE OF -, COUNTY oF--.
On this day Of -, in the year -.
before me personally came (hsrs insert the name Of
dence Of toitness,) and the said (here insert the
name Of the tritness) being we'll known to me as a
credible and disinterested person, was duly sworn
by me, and on his oath declared and said, that he
well knows the said (here insert the name Of the
parrantee,) and that he is the person to whom
the within Warrant issued, and who executed the
foregoing assignment, and his testimony being
(here insert the Of the ,oa,rantee) thereupon
acknowledged the said assignment to be his act
and deed. (0Gcer's sisnature.)
FORM FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE To-
CATION.-No. 2.
For value received, !, A. B., to whom the within
certificate Of location was 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
-,ls5.
Attest: A. b. sEAL.]
EFF.
Form Of acknowledgment ,ohers the uendor Is per.
sonally knosOn to the officer taking the same.
STAT. .. or -, ooUSTY OF ~ 49,
before me personally came (here insert name ehe
person to tohom the certificate Of location issued) to
me we'll known, and acknowledged the foregoing
assignment to be his act and deed; and l certify
that the said there insert the name 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.
signmcnt thereof.
(Ofcer's signature.)
Form Of acknowledgment tohere the pendor u not
personally knoton to the officer. and ,ohere his
identity has to be proved.
STATE OF --, COUNTY OF -.
bon. On this of lin in the , r.
Of the person to ohom the certificate Of location is
s,ed,) and (here insert the name and residence Of
ioitnsss) and the said (here insert the Of the
esg Te 10 dav as
and on his oath declared and said that he we'll
knows the said (here insert the name Of the person
to ,uhom the certificate Of location issued and that
he 10 the same person to whom the within certif-
cate OF location issued and who executed the fore.
going assignment; and his testimony being salts
factory evidence to of that fact, the said here
insert the name Of the person to 'chom the certificate
Of location issued) thereupon acknowledged the
said assignment to be his act and deed
(O6icer's signature.)
Assignment No. l and acknowledgment must
be endorsed upon the warrant, and No. and &C
know gment upon the certificate Of location; and
must be attested by two witnesses, acknowledged
before Register or Receiver of a Land Office,
Judge of a 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 acknowledgment is
made before either of the officers above speci-
fed, except the Register or Receiver of a Land
Office, it must be accompanied by certii-
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 3d. 1850, made be-
fore the date of this act, are invalid and void.
The same section provides, THAT any person
entitled to pre- emption right to any land, shall be
of the same, at the rate of 81 rs per for the
quantity of land therein specified
by this provision, all persons entitled to pre-emp-
tion, whether on offered or unofered lands,
military bounty land warrant in payment for
the tract pre- empted, reckoning the said warrant
at one dollar and twenty five cents per acre, for
the quantity therein specified, whether the land
claimed 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 If it
should fall short, he is not entitled to refunding
of the excess.
Nisfurther provided by the same section "thatthe
warrants which have been, or 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 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 greater
minimum than one dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, the locator of said warrant shall pay to
the United States in each 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 subject
to private entry at one dollar and twent FIVE cents
per acre, the holder of an eighty warrant
body Of eighty acres; and the holder Of q warrant
for one hundred and sixty acres 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 lie than
81 rs per acre, the holder of the warrant To-
cate in accordance with the instructions 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
tract Of land at 80 so per acre in full salts
faction thereof but be must locate, by legal subdi
visions, the compact body Of eighty acres, near
as may be, and pay the difference in cash. So also
of l6O.acre warrants.
Each warrant isto be distinctly and sepa rately
located, that it follows that body Of land
be located by an assignee Of various warrantess,
with number Of toarrants; nor can a pre-emptor
in any case use more than one warrantin the loca
| ton OF the land pre-empted by him. and the ex
cess, If any, must be paid f by him in cash.
The second section of this act provides THAT the
Registers and Receivers Of the Land Offices shall
hereafter be severally authorized To charge and
ceive for their services in locating all military
bounty land warrants, issued since the 18th day OF
February, lS47, the same compensate ton or per
centage to which they entitled by law for sales
OF the public lands for cash, at the rate Of s rs
per acre, the said compensation to be hereafter
paid BY the assgnees or holders Of such war.
rants"
The third section of this act provides "That Re-
gisters and Receivers, whether in out Of office
at the passage of this act their legal representa-
tives in case of DEATH shall be entitled to receive
! from the Treas Of the United States, for SER
vices heretofore performed In locating military
bounty land warrants, the same rate OF compen sa
ton provided in the preceding section for services
hereafter to be performed, after deducting the
amount already received by such officers under
military land warrants to compensate the Land
Officers Of the United States for services In relation
TO the location of those warrants approved May