The Placer herald., 1873-02-01
IMPORTANT TO PRE-EMP. Oi,S.

The following circular was issued by the
General Land Office, July Goth, 1872.
The following is an act approved July Nth
1870, to extend the provisions of the pre-
emption laws to the Territory of Colorado
and for other purposes:
BE II enacted, BY the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, that the
privileges of the act of May thirlieih, eigh-
Teen hundred and sixry-two, entitled "An
act to reduce the expenses of the survey
and sale of the public lands in the United
States" be, and the same are hereby, ex-
tended to Colorado and the proviso Of the
first section of the act approved June second,
eighteen hundred and sixfy-two, entitled
"An act to establish a land office in the Ter
rtory Of Colorado, and for other purposes,
is hereby repealed.
SEC. 2, A',d be ii. further enacted, That
nothing in the act Of Congress approved
March twenty yseventh, eighteen hundred
and iifty-four, entitled "An act for the relief
of settlers on lands reserved for railroad pur-
poses" shall be construed to relieve such
settlers from the obligation to file the proper
notices of their claims, as in other cases; and
all claimants of pre-empton rights hereafter,
when no shorter period OF time is now pre-
scribed by law, make the proper pro f and
payment for the lands claimed within eigh
teen months after the date prescribed for fl
ling their declaratory notices shall have ex-
PRED: Pr0rided, That when said date shall
have elapsed before the passage of this act,
said pre-emptors shall have one year after
the passage hereof in which to make such
proof aud payment.
This act has been amended as follows
Resolred, BY the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the Unit d States OF
America in Congress assembled, that settlers
on the public lands Of the United States
who have been repaired to make proof and
payment for their lands under the act to eX
tend he provisions of the pre-emplon laws
10 the Territory of Colorado, and for other
purposes, approved july fourteen, eighteen
hundred and seventy, and by instructions
from the General Land Office, under date
july thirty, eighteen bundled and seventy,
shall have twelve months additional time
given them under which to make such proof
and payment.
Approved March 3, 1871
1HhsE STATUTES leave the provisions of the
law as heretofore respecting "oFFERD LANDS,
VIZ: filing within Huty days, and payment
within hcelre months Gfier settlement.
The settler on surveyed "unotfered land"
must file his or her decaratory statement
within three months from the date of his or
her settlement on such land, and, wit III
Hwty months from the expiration Of sud
three months, make the proper proof anu
pay for such land.
Where settlers had already filed before
the p ssage of the act they are required to
make proof and payment within hoo gears
from such passage; therefore, all filings made
prior 10 that date will expire, by Limitation
of law, upon unotfered lands, on the 14th OF
July, 1872.
The settler on "unsurvcyed land" mnsi
file his or her declaratory statement within
three mouths from the date of the receipt, al
the district land Office, of the approved pla,
of the township embracing the tract upon
which he or she has settled and, within Hir-
" months from the expiration Of said three
months, make the proper proof, and pay tol
such tract.
The proviso Of the act of June ., 1872
requiring filing within six months from sur
vey in the field, and providing for filing witt
the Surveyor General, is repealed.
The restriction as to construction of the
act of March 27, 1854, is called to youl
especial attention.
BY act of March %, 1872, all filings i.
the State of California which would, under
previous laws, expire prior to March %
1878, are held good until that date, both TO,
offered and unoifered lands.
by act of May 9, 1872, all filings, both
or offered and unoffered lands, in the States
of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and
the Territory of Dakota where settlement
was made prior to its passage, are held good
for one year from the time when they would
expire under previous laws.
In other States and Territories the genera
provisions of This circular will apply. 1t vii
be observed that all filings for unoffered lands
where settlement was made prior to April ii
1870, expire on the 14lh instant 10y Operations
of the act and joint resolution above quoted
except in the States and Territory covered by
acts of March ~ and May 8, 1872, above
referred to.
In cases governed by these provisions
you will please conform your action thereto
WILLIS DRUMMoND,
Commissioner.
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