The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-02-05

all warrants for military bounty lands
which have been or may hereafter be
issued under any law of the United
States, and all valid Locations of the same
which have been or may hereafter be
made, are hereby declared to be assign
able, by deed or instrument of writing
made and executed after the taking ef-
feet of this act according to such form,
and pursuant to such regulations as may
be prescribed by the Commissioner of
the General Land Office, so as to invest
the assignee with all the rights of the
original owner of the warrant or loca-
tion; ProWded, That any person enti-
tied to pre-emption right to any land
shall be entitled to use any such land war;
rant in paymentfor tne same at the rate
of one dollar and twenty-five cents per
acre, for the quantity of land therein
specified: Provided, That the warrants
which have been, or may hereafter be
issued in pursuance of said laws or of
this act maybe located according to the
legal subdivisions Of the public lands in
one body upon any lands Of the United
States, subject 10 private entry at the
time of such location, at the minimum
price. Pr0Hded, .tur1er, That when
said warrant shall be located on lands
which are subject 10 entry at a greater
minimum than one dollar and twenty five
cents per acre, the locator of said war
rants shall pay 10 the United States in
cash the difference between tho value of
such warrants at one dollar and twenty
five cents per acre and the tract Of land
loo ated on. trr..r |.4e. sHsl
Sec. 2 And be Il further enacted,
That the registers and receivers of the
land-offces shall hereafter be severalIy
authorized to charge and receive for
their services in locating all military
bounty land warrants issued since the
eleventh day of February, eighteen hun
dred and forty-seven, the same comppn-
salion or percentage 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
compensation to be hereafter paid by
the aSSignees or holders of such warrants
Sec. 3. And be 1t further enacted,
That registers and receivers, whether
in or out of Office at the passage of this
act, or their legal representatives in case
of death, shall be entitled to receive
from the treasury of the United States,
for services heretofore performed in To-
eating military bounty land warrants,
the same rate of compensation provided
in the preceding section for sevices here
after to be performed, after deducting
the amount already received by such
officers under the act entitled "An act
to require the holders of military land
warrants to compensate the land. officers
of the United States for ser, ices in re.
lation to the location ofthose warrants y
approved May seventeenth, eighteen
hundred and foIty-eight: Provided,
Thatno register or receiversha receive
any compensation out of the treasury foI
past services, who has charged and re-
ceived illegal fees for the location of Sucl,
warrants: find provided further, That
no register or receiver shall receive for
his services during any year a greater
compensation than the maximum now
allowed by law.
Sec. 4. And be il further enacted,
That in all cases where The militia OF
volunteers, or State troops of any State
or Territory were called into miitar,
service, and whose services have beer
paid by the United States subsequent tc
the eighteenth June, eighteen hundred
and twelve, the officers and soldiers o.
such militia, volunteers or troops shall
be entitled to all the benefits of The act
entitled can act granting bounty land
to certain officers and soldiers who have
been engaged in the military service o
the United States" approved Septem
Der twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred
and fifty, and shall receive lands lo
their services according to the provis
ions of said act, upon proof of length 0
service as therein equired, and that th'
! last proviso of Tue ninth section of N,
act Of the eleventh Of February, eigh
} teen hundred and forty.seven, be, AM
the same is hereby repealed: Provided
} That nothing herein contained shall su
: thorize bounty land TO those WHO hav,
heretofore received or become entitle,
to the same. Ja adl moll .gla.m0a
Sec. 5.aAnd BE- IL. FURTHER enacted
J That where any company, battalion o