Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-05-29

which lIaH passed the lIouse of hepfese1.
tatives iii Congress. Il Is said that 1t will
likewise pass tue Senate:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives Of the United States
Of America In Congress assembled, That
any person who IL the head Of a family
and citizen OF the United States, or any
person who Is the head OF family, aud
had become citizen prior to the first day
or january, eighteen hundred and fifty-two,
as required by the naturalization laws OF
the United States, shall, from aud after the
passage Of THE net, be entitled to enter,
free Of cost. one-quarter section of vncent
aud unappropriated public lands, or a quall.
tity equnl thereto, 10 be located III q body
In conformity with the legal subdivisions
Of the public lands, and after the same
shall have been surveyed.
| SEe, 2, Aud be IL further enacted, Tint
the pefssn applying for the benefit Of this
act shuI, upon application to the register
or the land office ID which he or she Is
about 10 mike such entry, make affidavit
before tile said register that he or she is
the head OF family, and Is not the owner
Of any estate III land ut the time OF such
application, aud has not disposed of any
estate In the land to obtain the benefits oil
this act; and, upon making the affidavit
ns above required, and filing the affidavit
with the register he or she shall thereon
be permitted to enter the quantity Of land
already specified provided, however, that
no cert6cate shall be given or patent Is.
sued therefor until the expiration Of five
years from the date of such entry; and II,
at the expiration of such time, the person
making such entry, OF II he be dead, his
| widow, or, in case of her death, his heirs
or devisee /; or, In case Of widow making
such entry, her heirs or devisee, In case o
her death, shall prove by two credible
witnesses that he, she, or they have con.
tinued to reside upon aud cultivate said
land, and still reside upon the same, aud
have not alienuted the same. or any part
thereof, then in such case, he, or she, Of
they shall be entitled to a patent. as in
other eases provided by law: and provi
ded further, That in case of the deuth o
both father aud mother, leaving an infant
child or children under ID years Of age
tho right aud the fee shall enure to the
benefit of said infant child or children
and the executor, administrator, or guar
dian, may, at any timo within two years
after the death of the surviving parent
sell said land for the benefit OF such in
fants, but FOR no other purpose and the
purchaser shall acquire the absolute titlt
by the purchase, and be entitled to pa
tent from the United States.
! SEC. 5. And belt further enacted, Tha
the register of ,hs land Office shnll note al
such applications on the tract books ant
| plats Of his Office, and keep a register O
all such entries, and mike return thereo
to the General Land Office, together will
the proof upon which they have beel
founded. A# l8
i SEc. 4. And be it further enacted, Tha
all land acquired under the provisions o
this act, shall In no event become liable Il
the satisfaction Of any debt or debts con
tracted prior to the issuing the paten
therefor.
i SEQ. And be ii further enacted, Tha
IL, nj any time after filing the affidavit III
required IN the second section Of this act
and before the expiration Of the five year
Aforesaid. it shall be proven by two or more
respectable witnesses, upon oath, to TIL
satisfaction Of the register Of the land Of
fee, that the person having filed such affi
davit shall have actually changed his o
her residence, or abandoned the said entr,
for more than six months al any one time
and in that event, the land so entered shal
revert back to the government, and b'
disposed of as other public lands are nov
by law.
/ SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, Tbn
if any individual, now resident Of an,
one Of the States or Territories. and not /
citizen of the United States, but at thu
time of making such application for tn.
benefit Of this net shall have filed decla
ration Of intention as required by the nat
uralization laws of the United States, ane
shall become citizen OF the same before
the issuance Of the patent, as made ant
provided for in this act, shall be placet
upon an equal footing with the native-borr
citizen of the United States.
| SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, Tha
no individual shall be permitted to make
more than one entry under the provisions
of this act and that the Commissioner o
the General Land Office is hereby req,lir
ed TO prepare and issue such rules and reg
ulations consistent with this act as shaI
be necessary and proper to carry its pro
visions into effect and that the register.
and receivers of the several land Offices
shall be entitled to receive the same com
pensasion for any lands patented under the
Iprovisions of this act, that they are now
tentitled to receive when the same quantity
of land is entered with money, to be PAID
by the party to whom the patent shall be
issued Provided, however, That all per
sons entering land under the provisions o.
this act, shall, as near as may be practica.
bic, in making such entries, be confined q
each alternate quarter section, and no land
subject to private entry: And provided
further, That nothing in this act shall be
so construed as to impair or interfere ID
any manner whatever with existing pre-.
emption rights.
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