The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-03-31
THE BILL MAKING LAND WARRANTS ASSIGN

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been relieved by the final passage of the above
Bill, through both houses OF Congress. BY i,
all Land warrants are made assigna5le and
Registers and Receivers are made entitled to
pay for past servces,t the same as for the present
and future.
32d CONGRESS, 1sr SESSION.
| Is. 1863
IN THE SENATE OF, THE u. STATES,
JANUARY 81, 1859
Read the first and second time, and ordered 10
be engrossed.
A BILL sa
To make land Warrants assignable, and for other
purposes. go
Be 1t enacted By The Senate and House of Re
prcscntatircs Of The United States Of .4merica in
Congress assembled, That all warrants for
military bounty lands which have been or may
hereafter be issued under any law o E the United
States, and all valid locations of the same which
have been may hereafter be made, are here
by declared to be as>ignable, by deed or instru.
ment of writing made and executed after the
taking effect OF this act, according to such
form and pursuant to such regulations as may
be prescribed by the Commissioner Of the Gen
eral Land Office, so to vest the assignee
with all the rights Of the original owner of the
warrant or location: Preceded, That any per.
son entitled to presumption right to any land
shall be entitled to use any such land warrant
in payment for the same at the rate of one dol
lar and twenty five cents per acre, for the duan.
tty of land therein specified.
Provided, that the warrants which have been.
may hereafter be- issued IN pursuance OF
said laws of this act may be located according
20 the legal subdivisions Of the pubic lands in
one body upon any lands of the United States
subject to private entry at the time If such To-
cation, at the minimum price; PrOrided fu IT,
err, that when said warrants shall be located on
lands which are subject to entry at greater
minimum than 81 rs per acre, the locator of
said Warrants shall pay to the United States IN
cash the Difference between the value of said
warrants at 81 IS per acre and the tract of land
located on.
Seer. 2. find be 1t further enacted, That the
Registers and Receivers of the land offices shall;
hereafter be severally authorized TO charge and |
receive for their services in locating all military
bounty land warrants issued since the eleventh |
day OF February, eighteen hundred and forty
seven, the same conversation or per centaue
TO which they are entitled by law for sales of
The public lands for cash, at the rate Of one
dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the said
to BE- hereafter paid by the assign
res or holders Of such warrants. lg#oEe
Seer. 3. .4nd be 1t further enacted TIA.
and Receivers. whether in or out of
'ffice at the passage Of this act, or their legal
in case Of death, shall be emit.
led t. receive from the treasury Of the United
States, for services heretofore performed in
coating Military bounty land warrants, the same
ATE of compensation provided in the preceding
ec'ion for serv ices hereafter to be performed
liter drdncting the amount already received by I
uch officers under the act entitled s'An act to
equire the holders Of military land warrants to :
the land officers of tie United
States for services in relation to the location Of
hose warrants, approved May seventeenth, }
ighteen hundred and for'y-cight: Prorided, =
That no Register or Receiver shall receive any I
compensation out Of the treasury for past ser I
ices, who has charged and received Illegal fees $
" the location Of such warrants And prorided
nriAer, That no Register or Receiver shall IL
'ccivc for his services during any year great a
compensation than the maximum now allowed v
y law d
SECT. a. find be 1t further enacted, That in ~
cases where the militia, or volunteers, or
tate troops, Of any State or Territory, we're
liicd INTO military service, and whose services IN
i've been paid by the United States subsequent til
the eighteenth June, eighteen hundred and r
velve, the officers and soldiers of such militia, .
or troops shall be- entitled to all the
'neits of the act entitled can net granting W
'snty land to cert,in officers and soldiers who
I'VE been engaged 10 the military service of
e United States" approved September hs
'cnty eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and r