The Shasta courier., 1854-04-15
PRESCRIPTIONS ON THE PUBLIC
DOMAIN,
What is Necessary to Secure them

Whnt - necessary 20 secure them.
The Act of Congress- the substance of which
is contained in the article below, and which was
to expire the LIST of March last, has by the present
Congress, been continued for two years. Set
tiers at liberty therefore to avail themselves
OF all the privileges of pre-emption in the same
manner as heretofore.
By an Act of Sd March, 1853 the pre-emp-
ton laws were extended over California These
laws authorised settlements TO be made on pub
lie lands in this State not get surveyed, If made
within gear from the passage Of the Act of Sd
March last, (l853); but such settlements will
not be recognized under these laws if made snb.
segment to that period.
The 10th and 32d sections which have been
donated to the State for school purposes. if set
tied on, can be held by pre-emptors, and the
State may select other lands in lieu of those
thus settled on.
By this Act lands reserved 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-
ton 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 or have
declared his intentions to become such must
be the head of family, widow, or a single
man over the age of twenty-one years. These
lands may be paid for by military land warrants
at the rate of 81 25 per But one warrant
can be used in each pre-empton case. Parties
settling on such land are required to file their
declara;ory statements with the proper Register.
containing the precise day of settlement &C..
within three months after the filing of the town
ship plat in said Registers office, The proof.
affidavit, and payment OF these lands may be
made at any time previous to the day fixed by
the Presidents proclamation 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 section, Notwithstanding its
quantity may be few acres more or less than
one hundred and sixty acres; any lesser subdi-
VISION, or any adjoining lgal su6dicisions the ag
greSate number OF acres III which does not ex-
ceed one hundred and sixty acres. 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 consuna-
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
laration for tract Of land. cannot, at any fl-
ture period, file 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 or abandon his resi-
dence on his own land in California, to reside
on the public lands is entitled to the benefit of
this Act.
No assignment or transfer of pre-emption
rights can be recognized of entries made with
cash, or revolutionary landscrpt. 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 assignable per Act of Congress. approved
March %, 1852 the certificate of location may
be assigned, and the patents will be issued to
the asst gnee.
The following descriptions of lands are ex-
empt from the operations of these Acts:
l. Lands included by any reservation by any
treaty, law. or proclamation by the President Of
the United States, and lands reserved for sa-
lines or any other purposes.
3. Lands reserved for the support of schools,
except as to sections sixteenth and thirty-sx on
nmsurreyed land, as herenbetore mentioned.
3. Any Indian reservat on to which the title
has been, or may be extinSuis!Ied by the United
States at any time during the operation of this
Act.
A. Sections Of land reserved to the United
States, alternate to other sections, which may
hereafter be granted to the State for the con-
struction OF any canal, railroad, or other public
Improvement. except where the settlements
may be made Oh such land between the time of
reservation and the final allotment referred to in
IN the Act of Sd March, 1853, Chapter l4a, sec
ond session, 32d Congress.
5. Sections,.or fractions of sections iucluded
within the limits of any incorporated town.
q. Every portion of the public lands which
has been selected as site for city or town
Z. Every parcel or lot of land, actually set
tied and occupied for the purpose OF trade, and
not agriculture
g. All lands on which are situated any known
salnes mines
g. Lands reserved by competent authority,
and those claimed by any foreign grant or title.
TO- Lands in the possession occupation of
an Indian tribe.
IL. Lands occupied for military post, or
within one mile of such post.
Those claiming the benefit of this Act are
quired to furnish proof by one disinter-
ested witnesses, of the facts necessary TO estab-
llsh the three requisites pointed out i'll these in
viz: citizenship, family relations or
age, and the inhabitation Of the tract sought.