The Shasta courier., 1854-03-25
PRESCRIPTIONS ON THE PUBLIC
DOMAIN
What i. Necessary 10 securc them.

| l3v an Act OF Sd March, 1913, the pfe-einp-
ton laws were extended over California. These
laws authorised settlements 10 be made on pub
| lie lands in this State not yet surveyed, !f made
.cikhia one year from the passage OF the Act OF 3d
March last, QS53); but such settlements will
not be recognized under these laws ii made sub-
sequent 10 that period.
The 10th and 32d sections which have been
donated to the State for school purposes if set
tied OH, can be held by pre-emptors, and the
State may select other lands in lieu of those
thus settled on.
By ths Act lands preserved on account of
claims under French, Spanish, or other grants,
which have BEEN or shall be hereafter declared
by the Supreme Court of the United States to be
invalid. will be entitled to the right of pre-emp-
tion after the lands have been released from res
ervation. in the same manner as if no reserva-
tion existed"
The person claiming the benefit of these acts
must be citizon of the United States, have
declared his intentions to become such must
be the head of family, or widow, single
man over the age of twenty-one years. These
lands may be paid for by military land warrants
at the rate of 81 % per But warrant
can be used in each pre-emption case. Parties
settling on such land required to file their
declara:ory statements with the proper Register,
containing the precise day of settlement &C..
within three months after the filing ofrhe town
affidavit, and payment of these lands may be
made at any time previous to the day fixed by
the Presidents proclaim tiUn for the commence
ment of the public sale of lands included in the
tract.
The tracts liable to entry under this act are
"A regular quarter secfi0n, Notwithstanding its
quantity may be a few acres more or less than
one hundred and sixty acres; any lesser subdi-
vision or any joining lfgai subdivisions, the ag
vrpa 10 m Ter al winch e. X.
ceed one hundred aud sixty But these
regular quarter sections cannot OF course be
known until the legal surveys by the United
States have been made.
The heirs of parties who die before consuma-
ting their claims by the filing of the proper pa
pers. &c, will have the right to perfect the
claim.
By this act person who has once filed dec
laraton for one tract of land. cannot, at any f,I-
ture period file a second declaration for another
tract.
No person who is proprietor of 800 acres of
land in any State or Territory of the United
States. is entitled to the benefit of this act.
No person who shall quit abandon his resi-
deuce on his own land in California, TO reside
the public lands is entitled to the benefit oi
this Act.
No assignment or transfer of pre-emption
rights can be recognized of entries made with
cash. or revolutionary landscript. The patents
must issue to The claimants. IN whose names all
such entries must be made but where the
claim has been located by military warrant,
(made nssi ignable per Act of Congress- approved
March % 1852 y the certificate of location may
be assigned, and the patents will be issued to
the assignee
The following descriptions of lands are ex-
empt from the operations of these Acts:
/. Lands included by any reservation by any
treaty law. or proclamation by the President OF
the United States and lands reserved for
lines or any other purposes.
. Laud reserved ior the support of schools,
except to sections sixteenth aud thlrty-slx on
unsuyreyed land, as hereubetore mentioned
3. Any Indian reservat on 10 which the title
has been or may he extInenished by the United
States at any time during the operation OF this
Act
4. Sections of land reserved to the United
States. alternate to other sections. which may
hereafter be granted to the State for 'he con-
ssrucion of any canal, railroad, other public
improvement. except where the ser'ements
MAY be made on such land between the time OF
reservatiop apd die final allotment referred to IN
in ile Act OF Sd March. 1853 Chapter li3, sec
ond session. 32d Congress.
). Sections, or fractions of sections included
within the limits of any Incorporated town.
6. Every portion Of the public lands which
has been selected a site tor city or town
7. Every parcel or lot OF land, actually set
tied and occupied for the purpose OF trade. aud
not agriculture.
8. All lands on which are situated any known
salines or mines.
9. Lands reserved by competent authority
and those Claimed by any foreign grant or title
10. Lands in The possession or occupation OF
an Indian tribe.
H. Lands occupied for military post, or
within one mile OF such post.
Those claiming The benefit Of this Act are re-
quired to furnish proof by one or more disinter-
ested witnesses. of the facts pecessarysso esta,-
lish the three requisites ponied ont in these in-
,tructions. viz citizenship, family relations or
age, and the inlIabiaiion ot the tract sought.