Circular from the General Land Office Showing, the Manner of Proceeding to Obtain Title to Public Lands by Purchase, by Location with Warrents Or Agricultural College Scrip, by Pre-emption and Homestead: Issued August 23, 1870 |
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25 per acre Act of Congress act of fourth Act to secure actual settlement actual settlers affidavit required aforesaid agricultural college scrip America in Congress Approved March army or navy AUGUST 23 benefit bona fide improvement certificate Commissioner Congress assembled day of A. D. Declaratory Statement District Land Office dollars eighteen hundred entitled An Act expiration fee and commissions further enacted grant pre-emption rights hereafter Homestead laws homesteads to actual hundred and sixty July 15 March 21 military or naval oath party patent therefor person or persons pre-emption laws pre-emptor private entry provided further public domain public lands purchase purpose of actual quarter section range number Register and Receiver register or receiver residing right of pre-emption secure homesteads Senate and House settled and improved settlement and cultivation sixty acres solemnly swear subject to private surveyed lands thereof township number tract of land twenty-one U. S. Statutes United warrant
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Page 16 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 22 - ... that he does not apply to purchase the same on speculation, but in good faith to appropriate it to his own exclusive use and benefit; and that he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner...
Page 19 - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Page 17 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page 15 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Page 13 - ... he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he might acquire from the government of the United States should inure, in whole or in part, to the benefit of any person except himself...
Page 16 - ... subject to pre-emption at one dollar and twenty-five cents or less per acre ; or eighty acres or less of such unappropriated lauds at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be located in a body, in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, and after the same shall have been surveyed...
Page 19 - ... and that he, she, or they will bear true allegiance to the Government of the United States; then, in such case, he, she, or they, if at that time citizens of the United States, shall be entitled to a patent, as in other cases provided by law.
Page 12 - 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 laud to reside on the public land in the same State or Territory...
Page 21 - States, to purchase the quarter of section , in township , of range , in the district of lands subject to sale at the land office at , and containing acres...