Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1878 — How To Secure Forfeited Railroad Lands. [ARTICLE]

How To Secure Forfeited Railroad Lands.

Wahhinoton, Sept. 6. A circular of instructions has been issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the recent decision of the Secretary of the Interior in the Dudymott case, and is addressed to Registers and Receivers of the United States District Land Offices. The Commissioner’s instructions apply only to lands granted by the act of July 1, 1862, as amended by the act of July 2, 1864, and the act of March 3, 1869, authorizing the transfer of a part of the grant to the Union Pacific Railway Company. The instructions say: Where any person shall apply to file a pre-emp-tion declaratory statement lor a tract or tracts not exceeding a quarter aeotion within the limits of such grant, and when the entire road shall have been completed for more than three years, each applicant will be mquired to show that he or she is duly qualified as pre-emptor. Thereupon the declaratory statement will be conditionally received and the proper note thereof made. Yon will immediately thereafter call upon the proper officer of the railroad company for a statement showing whether the lands applied for had been sold prior to the date of the application to hie a declaratory statement thereof. If the company shall report that the land had been sold, the report most show the date of such sale and the name of the person or persons to whom sold, and give a description of the deed or instrument of conveyance. On receipt of such report you will rejeot the application to file a declaratory statement, subject to appeal to this office. If the company shall state that the land had not been so sold, you will receive the declaratory statement, and. upon the applicant showing at the proper time a full oomplinnoe with the requirements of the Pre-emption laws, permit payment at entry at sl-25 per acre. Following is the list of companies whose grants are clearly under or subject to the terms of the act of July 1, 1862, with the date of completion of such roads, as appears from the records of the Department: Union Pacific Railroad, completed July 15. 1869: Kansas Pacific Railway, completed Oct. 19,1872; Union Pacific, Central Branch, completed Jan. 20,1872; Denver Pacific Railroad, completed May 2,1872; Sioux City & Pacific, completed March 2, 1869; Central Pacific Railroad, completed July 15, 1869: Western Pacific Railroad, completed Jan. 21,1870.

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