Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-04-28

THE LAND GRADUATION BILL.
The following bill has passed the
House and is now before the Senate
AN ACT to graduate the price Of the
Public Lands TO actual settlers and
cultivators.
BE IL enacted By The Senate and House
Of Representatives ofhe United States
Of America ia Congress assembled, That
all Of the public land in the United
States which shall have been in mar
ket for ten years or upward, prior to
the time OF application to enter the
same, under the provisions of this act,
and still remaining unsold, shall be
subject to sale at the price OF one dol.
lar per acre; and all of the lands ofthe
United States that shall have been in
market Tor fifteen years at seventy
Ave cents per cre;and all of the lands
OF the United States that shall have
been in market for twenty years or up
ward. as aforesaid. and still remaining
unsold, shall be subject to sale at fifty
cents per acre; and all Of the lands Of
the United States that shall have been
in markct.for twenty five years and up
ward, as aforesaid, aud still remaining
unsold, shall be subject to sale at
twenty-five cents per acre; and Hands
OF the United States that shall have
been in maIket for thirty years or
more, shall besubject TO sale at twelve
and half cents per acre; Provided,
This section shall not be so construed
rs to extend to lands reserved to the
United States, in acts granting lands to
States for railroad or other internal
Improvements, or to mineral lands held
at over one dollar and twenty-five cents
per acre.
Sec. 2. Ind be Il further eaacted,
That upon every reduction in price
under the provisions of this act. the
occupant and settler upon the lands
shall have the right Of prccmption at
such graduated price. upon the same
terms, conditions, restrictions and linn
itations, upon which the public lands
of the United States are now subject
to the right of precmption until within
thirty days preceding the next gradua-
ton or reduction that shall take place;
and il not so purchased, shall again be
subject TO the right of precmptiDn for
eleven months as before. and so on
from time TO time, as reductions take
place: Provided, That nothing in this
act shall be SO construed as TO inter
fere with any right which has or may
accrue by virtue OF any act granting
preemption 70 actual settlers upon pub
lie lands.
See. 5. Indie Il further enacted,
That any person applying toenter any
OF the aforesaid lands shall be required
to make affidavit, before the Register
or Receiverof the propular Land office,
that he or she enters tie same for his or
her own use. aud for The purpose of ac-
tadt settlement and eultivotion, or for
he use cfan adjoining farm or plantta.
ton osoned or occupied by hin, or herself
and, together NTH said entry, he or she
has nOtdequired from he Uuited States,
under The provisions Of this act, more
than three hundred and tpenty acres,
according 10 he established surveys and
If any person or persons taking such
oath or affidavit. shall swear falsely in
the premises, he or she shall be subject
10 all the pains and penalties of PERU
ry.
Passed the house of Representatives,
April IL, 1855.
Attest JOHN w. F0RNEY. elk.
05-A Yankee gentleman, conveying
IN Englshman around to view tho dif.
fercnt objects OF attraction In the city
Of Boston, brought him TO Bunker Hill.
They stood looking ut the splendid shaft,
when the Yankee said
"Thls 10 the place where Warren
fell"
"Ah" replied the Englishman evident
ly not posted mp In local historical mat.
tors, "did IL hurt him muehl"
"llurl hlm" exclaimed The other, he
was killed slr."
'Ah, he was, ehw said the stranger,
I'LL cylng the monument, and compulIngs
its height In his own mind. layer by
layorl "Well, should think he would
have been, to fall SO far!"
AKITcHEN CoNFRB,