The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-31
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(Signed) G.. D., Register.
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AN ACT to appropriate the proceeds of the
sales of the public lands, and to grant
pre-emption rights.
SEC. 10. Aad Be It further enacted,
That from and after the passage of
this act, every person, being the head
of a family, or widow, or single man,
over the age of twenty-one years, and
being a citizen of the United States,
or having filed his declaration of in
tention to become citizen, as required
by the naturalization laws, who, since
the first day of June, A. D.. eighteen
hundred and forty, has made. or shall
hereafter make, a settlement in person
on the public lands to which the In
dian title had been, at the time of suoh b
settlement, extinguished, and which
has been, or shall have been, surveyed
prior thereto, and who shall inhabit
and improve the same, and who has
or shall erect dwelling thereon, shall
be. and is hereby, authorised to enter
with the register of the land Office for
the district in which such land may
lie, by legal subdivisions, any number
of acres not exceeding one hundred
and sixty, or a quarter section of land,
to include the residence of such claim
ant, upon paying to the United States
the minimum price Of such land, sub
ject, however, to the following limita-
tions and exceptions. No person
shall be entitled to more than one pre-
emptive right by virtue of this act;
no person who is the proprietor of
three hundred and twenty acres of
land in any State or Territory of the
United States, and no person who
shall quit or abandon his residence on
his own land to reside on the public
land in the same State or Territory.
shall acquire any right of pre-emption
under this act; no laIds included in
any reservation, by any treaty. law oil
proclanation of the President of the
United States, or reserved for salines,
or for other purposes; no lands reserv-
ed for the support of schools, nor the
lands acquired by either of the two
last treaties with the Miami tribe of
Indians in the State of Indiana, or
which may be acquired Of the Wyan-
dot tribe of Indians in the State of
Ohio, or other Indian reservation TO
which the title has been or may be
extinguished by the United States at
any time during the operation of this
act; no sections of land reserved to
the United States alternate to other
sections granted to any Of the States
for the construction of any cazal. rail-
road, or other public improvement;
no sections or fractions of sections
included within the limits of any in
corporated town; no portions of the
public lands which have been selected
as the site for city or town: no par
eel or lot of land actually settled and
occupied for the purposes of trade
and not agriculture; and no lands on
which are situated any known salines
or mines. shall be liable to entry un-
der and by virtue of the provisions
of this act. And so much of the
proviso of the set of twenty-seeond
Of june, eighteen hundred and thirty
eight, or any order of the President
ofsthe United States, as directs eer-
tain reservations to be made in favor
of certain elauses under the treaty of
Dancing Rabbit Greek, be, and the
same IS hereby repealed: Prosidsd,
That such repeal shall not s9ect any
title to any tract Of Iznd secured in
virtue Of said tresty.
SIC. IL had b Z further enacted,
Thst when two or mora persons shall
have settled on the sane quarter Sec
tion Of land. the right Of presumption
shall be in him or ksr who made ths
first settlement, provided sHch persons
shall eoEform 70 the other provisions
of this act; and ell questions IS to
the right Of pre- smption arising hss
tween the pfesnpters. shsll Be settled
BY The register and reseiysr Of the dis
friet within which the land is situated
subisct to sa appeal TO and revision
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