The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-02-04

President Lincoln has forwarded the fol
lowing additional instructions to the direct
Itax commissioners for the district of South
ICarolina, i'll relation to the disposition OF
lands
1. You will allow any loyal person of
twenty-one years of age Or upwards, who
has at any time since the occupation by the
national forces resided for six months, or
now resides, upon, or rs engaged in cult
waiting, any lands i'll your district owned by
the United States, to enter the same for pre-
emption to the extent Of one or, at the OPP
ton Of tie pre- -emptor two tracts OF twenty
acres each, paying therefor one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre. You will give
preference in all cases to heads Of families
and to married women whose husbands are
engaged in the service of the United States,
Or are necessarily absent
g. You will permit each soldier, sailor Or
;marine actually engaged in the service OF the
United States, or any who may have been
OF hereafter shall be honorably discharged to
pre-empt and purchase i'll person or by au-
thorized agent, at the rate of one dollar and
twenty five cents per acre, one tract OF TWEEN
ty acres of land, if single, and if married
two tracts of twenty acres each, Ill adj
dition to the amount head Of family or
married woman in the absence of her hus-
band is allowed to pre-empt and purchase
under the general privilege Of loyal per-
sons.
g. Each pre-emptor, on filing his claim
and receiving his certificate of pre-emption,
must pay, insUnited States notes, two fifths
Of the price, and the residue on receiving a
deedfor the parcels of land preempted, and
and failure to make complete payment on
receipt of his deed will forfeit allrights under
the pre-empton. as well as all partial pay
ments for the land,
4. When persons authorized to purchase
by presumption desire TO enter upon and Gull
tivate lands not yet surveyed, they may do
so but they will be required to conform in
their selections nearly as possible to the
probable lines Of the surveys and to take
and occupy them subject to correction Of til
tie and occupation by actual surveys when
made.
.. In making surveys, such reservations
for paths and roadways will be made as will
allow easy and convenient access to the sew
eral subdivisions entered tor sale and occu-
lpancy by presumption or otherwise.
A. LINCOLN.
Approved Dec 81, 1863"
The lands thus thrown into market arc
among the richest in the Southern country,
producing the most valuable crops in return
for very moderate labor Of course, they
will be eagerly taken up in small sections,
and populous settlement Of owners of the
soil, will become at once the tiIlers and de-
tenders Of the rich Inheritance, which as il
by a significant retribution of Providence,
rebellion has flung into the lap of the once
oppressed poor and enslaved Of their PEG
pie.
Many of the settlers will be Northern sol
diers, who having become acclimated and
delighted with this sunny region, will prefer
: to remain Mechanics, already greatly in
demand, will ply their various arts in new
community schools and churches will be
; multiplied under Northern inspiration AND
? example industry, production, and inteili
gence will follow our arms and when oul
7 forces withdraw, instead of leaving desc
late country behind them, they will point Il
it as a blooming and regenerated Eden
, The amount Of land bid in by the Tax
: Commissioners for the United States, anc
now open for prescription, is about 43, 0OC
acres, exclusive of ., 900 acres reserved fol-
: school funds. The negro population Of the
. Sea Islands is about $4,000, Of whom one
fifth are eligible to pre-empt, Tie soldiers
sailors and civilians who are likely to claim
land are numerous, so that very little of the
: soil will remain unoccupied. Everything is
ready for the Inauguration of new settle.
} ment on the basis Of those principles Of free
, dom and honorable industry which will en-
sure its prosperity and glory. What won
derful and unlocked for results this terrible
war is working out \ prophet who SHOULD
r have predicted five years ago such settle
ment on the choicest lands of South Carroll
ma, would have been sent to the mad-houss
at the North, or hung at the South