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 10 the Registers and Recievers of the Unit. ed States Land Offices.
 General Lana Oodce, August 30, 1854
 GENTLEMEN.-Anne is copy of the act of Congress, entitled, "An act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settelers and cultivartors," approved August 1854. '
 This act takes effect from its passage. It an- plies to all lands except those Preserved to the United States, In acts granting lands to States tor railroad or other internal improvements. or to mineral lands, held at over one dollar and twenty -hve cents per acre; and except also lands reserved from sale by act of Congress- order of the President, or which may have been appro- prla'eo TOT any purpose whatever. Lands wnlcn are required by treaty stipulations to be soio TOT tue oenent of Indians, are also excluded from the provisions of this law.
 Lands subject to the operation of this act ara also subject to pre-emption, at the graduated price, under the provisions of the act of Sente,n- per 4, !o4l. Where settlers claim any of these lands by pre-emption, under that law. thev must file their declaratory statements prove mn their rights and make payment at the oradn- ated price within the time prescribed 6v the said act, except towards the close of each neri. cd of graduation, when they must be paid for within thirty days preceding the next gradua- ton or reduction that shall take place, or forfeit thelr claim, even if the year allowed by the act of lo4l has not expired; and the lands settled on by them will be subject to private entry. If not purchased at private entry, however, be- fore the next graduation or reduction has taken place, such lands will again be subject to pre- emptlon as aforesaid at such reduced price. This act provides, however, that nothing in it shall be so construed as to interfere with any right which has or may accrue by virtue of any act granting pre-emption to actual settlers upon public lands" Therefore, any right of pref erence which may have attached, or many hereafter attach, under the act of May 27. 1854 entitled "An act for the relief of settlers on lands reserved for railroad purposes" may be pad tor ct tue groduated price, within the time prescribed by the said act of 1854 except to- wards the close of each period of graduation when they must be paid for within thirty days preceding the next graduation or reduction. or the claim be forfeited
 All such claims, however, under the law of l84l, as we'll as that of 1854, preferred towards the close cf each period of graduation, which shall not have been consummated or entered under the act of August 4, 1854, may be paid for and entered subsequently, during the period allowed by said acts of 1844 and 1854 but at the usual minimum of one dollar and t,UeQtg- fve cents per acre.
 Any person may enter lands subject to the operations of this act at the graduated price on making affidavit, before the Register or Receiv- CT of the proper lah d office that he or she en- ters the same for his or her own use, and for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, or for the use of an adjoining farm or plantation owned or occupied by him or herself, and together with said entry he or she has not acquired from the United States, under the provisions of this act, more than three hundred and twenty acres, according to the established surveys.
 All entries, by pre-emption or otherwise, un- der the provisions of this act, must be in con- pact body by legal subdivision of tracts adia- cent and contiguous, the same as under the pre-emption act of 1841, except where the land is claimed for the use of an adjoining farm or plantation: when it must form with such farm or plantation compact body as aforesaid All lands not returned under the provisions of this act as pre-emptons for actual settlement and cultivation, or as constituent part of a farm or plantation, will be subject to the laws reguat- ing the sale or location of lands at the ordinary minimum price of one dollar and twenty. five cents per acre.
 Where parties apply to locate warrants or scrip on any of the lands graduated under the provisions of this act, they can locate no more than Is called for by the face of the warrants or scrip that IS, forty-acre warrant or scrip can only take torty-acre tract or its equivalent an eighty acre warrant can take an eighty acre, or two contiguous and adjacent forty acre tracts forming compact body of eighty acres; and so on, without reference to the price.
 To prevent confusion and simplify the busi- ness as much as possible, it has been determin- ed not to reckon fractions of years-the fs- cal year governing. Hence, all lands, offered say from July1, l841, to July l. 1889, will be regarded as coming within the first class under this law; those offered between July l, l845, and July l, 184O will not fall within the sec ond class till July l, 1855; and so on in the other classes.
 Great care and attention must be given to this matter to prevent errors, and all entries claimed under tnlS act since It's passage, and Tn accOrd- ance with its provisions, must be adjusted as above directed
 The testimony in all cases under tbis act will be transmitted to this office with the certificates of entry.
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant
 JOHN WILSON, Commissioner. AN ACT to graduate and reduce the price of
 the public lands to actual settlers and culti- vatOrs
 Be it enacted 6y tue Senate and House cf Re- personalities cf tue United States cf America in Congress assembled, That all of the public lands of the United States which shall have been in market for ten years or upwards, prior to the time of application to enter the same, under the provisions of this act, and stillremaining unsold, shall be subject to sale at the price of one dol lar per acre; and all of the lands of the United States that shall have been in market for fifteen