The States not named in the foregoing list select lands within their own limits, and consequently receive no Scrip.

Congress has recently suspended the delivery of Scrip to the States not represented in that body.

INDIAN SCRIP.

This is a class of government land Scrip issued to the Sioux and Chippewa tribes of Indians and to their half-breed descendants, in payment for rights to certain reservations which they relinquished. There is a very limited amount in circulation, and it may be used in the entry of the public lands as follows:

1st. It is not assignable, but must be located in the name and for the use of the Indian or half-breed in whose name it was issued.

2d. The location may be made by the party in person, or by his or her regularly constituted attorney.

3d. The Scrip will lay upon any of the surveyed non-mineral public lands of the United States not reserved or otherwise disposed of.

4th. Upon any unsurveyed public lands upon which the party may have improvements.

5th. Upon any unoccupied lands subject to pre-emption, whe ther surveyed or unsurveyed.

6th. If filed upon unsurveyed lands, the application must be accompanied by a diagram of the tract, and possession maintained in such a manner as to be fair notice to all other persons of the claim to and occupancy of the premises; and within three months after the survey of the tract by the United States, and the return of the plat of such survey to the local land office, the party must repair to such local office and make claim to the proper legal subdivisions covered by the diagram.

7th. No fees are required to be paid on the location of this class of Scrip, and no receipt is given for the same by the local officers.

8th. Said officers are required to send up to the General Land Office the application, properly certified by themselves, and attach to each application a certificate to the following effect: "We hereby certify that the within certificate has

Excess receipts are issued for the payment for any fraction less than forty acres or the smallest legal subdivision, which it may be necessary to include in the location, in excess of the number of acres called for by the Scrip.

REVOLUTIONARY BOUNTY LAND SCRIP.

This is a class of Land Scrip issued under the act of the 31st of August, 1852, in favor of the present proprietors of unsatisfied Virginia military land warrants issued or allowed by the authorities of the State of Virginia prior to the 1st of March, 1852.

The Scrip is issued for eighty acre tracts of land, except for fractions, to which the claimant may be entitled, after deducting the eighty acre certificate.

• When Scrip is claimed, located or sold by the "guardian of an infant" or the husband of a "femme covert," the evidence of their being such guardian or husband must fully appear.

This Scrip is "assignable by indorsement, attested by two witnesses," in the following manner, upon the back of the certificate: For value received (I, or we, as the case may be), the present proprietor of the within certificate of Scrip, do hereby sell and assign the same to

and his heirs

of

This Scrip is "receivable in payment of any lands owned by the United States, subject to sale at private entry," except such lands as are claimed by pre-emption, or are settled upon and cultivated, and can be applied at the rate of $1.25 per acre, in the same manner as money, in all cases where the tract applied for contains the area specified in the Scrip, or more; where it contains less, the excess of the Scrip cannot be refunded in money, but may be denoted in the relinquishment as applicable to any other tract.

THE HOMESTEAD LAW.

WHO ARE ENTITLED TO ITS BENEFITS.

Any person who is a citizen of the United States, or has declared his intention to become such under the laws of the United States, and who is:

1st. The head of a family.

2d. Who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years.

3d. Who has served in the army or navy of the United States during actual war, for at least fourteen days, and who has never borne arms against the United States government, or given aid or comfort to its enemies.

Any person possessing the foregoing qualifications may enter 160 acres or a less quantity of the surveyed public lands of the United States; the land to be in a compact body, and in conformity to the lines of the public surveys; unoccupied and subject to entry under the pre-emption laws, at $1.25 per acre. Double minimum or railroad reserved sections may be taken at the double minimum rates, that is, 80 acres of $2.50 land may be taken in lieu of 160 acres at $1.25.

Any person owning and residing on land may enter contiguous land, which, with that already owned and occupied, shall not exceed in the aggregate 160 acres.

The applicant for the benefit of the Homestead Law is required to file with the Register of the United States Local Land Office, for the district in which the lands are located, his application as follows:

(Form A.)

HOMESTEAD.

Application.

No.

I,

of

LAND OFFICE at
(Date)

do hereby apply

to enter, under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved May 20th, 1862, entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," the

township

of section

of range

acres.

[In pre-emption cases the following should be added: Having filed my pre-emption declaration thereon on

containing

in

day of

Signature of applicant.

LAND OFFICE at

186.

I, Register of the Land Office, do certify hereby that the above application is for surveyed lands of the class which the applicant is legally entitled to enter under the Homestead Act of May 20th, 1862, and that there is no prior, valid, adverse right to the same.

having filed my

Application, No for an entry under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved May 20th, 1862, entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," do solemnly swear that [here state whether applicant is the head of a family, or over twentyone years of age; whether a citizen of the United States, or has filed his declaration of intention of becoming such; or, if under twenty-one years of age, that he has served not less than fourteen days in the army or navy of the United States during actual war; that said Application No. is made for his, or her, exclusive benefit; and that said entry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not, directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever].

of section
in town-
under the act of Congress,

being the amount of fee, and one-half the compensation of

Register and Receiver, for entry of

ship

of range

approved May 20th, 1862, entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain.”

Receiver.

Should the homestead settler so desire, he may, after settlement and cultivation of the tract entered as above, prove such settlement and cultivation by disinterested witnesses, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, when he will have the right to pay for the same, instead of waiting five years for his title as provided in the law; in which case he will receive a certificate in the following form, entitling him to a patent for the land.

CERTIFICATE.
No.

}

LAND OFFICE.
(Date)
APPLICATION.

{No.

IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, That, pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress approved May 20th, 1862, entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," has made payment in full for

containing

in township

acres.

of section of range

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN, That on presentation of this certificate to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the said

described.

shall be entitled to a patent for the tract of land above

Register.

The fee required to be paid on a homestead entry is $10 fcr the use of the government, and one per cent. commissions to each of the officers-Register and Receiver-on the value of the land, at $1.25 or $2.50 per acre, as the case may be. A like commission has also to be paid upon receiving a Patent Certificate.

Lands entered under this act are not liable for debts contracted prior to the issue of patent.

An abandonment of the land for more than six months within the five years residence required, is cause of forfeiture, unless the land shall have been paid for under the 8th section of the act as above explained.

In case of death of the homestead settler, the land may be sold for the benefit of infant heirs, but for no other purpose.

Pre-emptions upon surveyed $1.25 lands may be transmuted into homesteads if no other rights shall have intervened.

Persons residing at a distance from the proper land office may make application before the clerk of the county in which he or