Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-09-14

Hon. Geo ". Jones, we are enabled
to place the bill before our readers.
1t provides, a perusal will show, that
all lands which have been in market
for different terms of years, shall be
sold at the different reduced prices,
as follows:
For ten years and upwards . Isl 90
Fifteen years and upwards -. IS
Twenty years and upwards. :. -. so
Twenty-Five years and upwards. 49,. rs
Thirty years or more l2k
The graduation does not include
the mineral lands or railroad reser-
vations:-
PUBLIC, LXXXI.-An act to graduate
the price Of the Public Lands to ac-
fua! Settlers and Cultieators.
Be it enacted By tie Senate and
House Of Representatives. Of the I'M.
ted States Of america in To- gresS as
seplJisd, 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 ap-
plieation to enter the same under
the, pro visions Of this act, and still
remaining unsold, shall be subject to
sale at the price of one dollar per
acre; and all Of the lands of The Uni
ted States that shall have been in
market for fifteen years or upwards,
as aforesaid, and still remaining un-
sold, shall be subject to sale at sew
enty-five cents per acre; and all of the
lands Of the United States that shall
have been in market for twenty years
or upwards, as aforesaid, and still re-
naming 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 market for
twenty five years and upwards, as
aforesaid, and still remaining unsold,
shall be subject to sale at twenty-five
cents per acre; and all lands of the
United States that shall have been
in market for thirty years or more,
shall be subject to sale at twelve-and-
a-half centsIper acre: ProSded, This
section shall not be SO construed as
to extend TO lands reserved to the
United States, in acts granting land
to States for railroad or other inter.
nal Improvements, or to mineral lands
held at over one dollar and twenty
FIVE cents per acre.
SEC. 2. An a be it further enacted,
That upon every reduction in price
under the provisions of this act, the
occupant and settler upon the lands
shall have the right Of presumption
at such graduated price, upon the
same terms, conditions, restrictions,
and limitations, upon which the pub |
tic lands of the United States are
aow subject to the right Of preemp-
ion, until within thirty days pre-
,eding the next graduation or reduc-
ion that shall take place; and if not
70 purchased, shall again be subject
o right of presumption for eleven
months as before, and so on from
ime to time, rs reductions take
,lace: PrOuideG, That nothing in
his act shall be SO construed as TO
interfere with any right which has or
nay accrue by virtue Of any act
presumption to actual set
lers upon public lands i
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, [,
That any person applying t enter
ny Of the aforesaid lands shall be
equired to make affidavit before t
he register or receiver Of the prop {
r land Office, that he or she enters q
he same for bis or her own use, and {
Or the purpose of actual settlement |
nd cultivation, or for the use of an q
djoining farm or plantation, owned 7
r occupied by himor herself, and to- t
ether with said entry, he or she has /
OF acquired from the United States. /
nder the provisions of this act, more a
ban three hundred and twenty acres,
ocording to the established surveys;
nd if any person or persons taking :
Ich oath or affidavit shall swear \
lsely in the premises, he or she il
,all be subject to all the pains and l.
snalties of perjury. s.
APPROVED, August 4, 1854. O