BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled,
THATthe act entitled “An act to require the holders of Military land warrants to compensate
the land officers of the United States for services in relation to the location of
those warrants,” approved May seventeenth eighteen hundred and forty eight, be and
the same is hereby repealed; and that from and after the passage of this act it shall
be lawful for the Registers and Receivers of the several land offices to require and
receive from the holders of Military bounty land warrants and Choctaw land scrip,
a commission of one per cent on the value, at the minimum price of one dollar and
twenty five cents per acre, of all lands which may have been, or may hereafter be
located at their respective offices with said warrant or scrip, Provided, That in
all cases where the warrants or scrip is located by, in the name of and for the use
of, the person to whom the same was issued or his heirs, no compensation shall be
charged, either by the Register or Receiver, for making such location.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in the adjustment of the accounts of O. B.
Hill, late Receiver of Public Moneys, at New Orleans, Louisiana, the accounting officers
of the
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Treasury of the United States, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to allow
him office rent, at the rate of three hundred dollars per annum during his late incumbency
in said Office; estimating the amount thus to be paid from the twenty ninth day of
October eighteen hundred and forty four, the date of his oath of office, until the
first day of February eighteen hundred and forty nine, the day on which his resignation
took effect.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is
hereby directed to as-certain the amount of lands which have been located by military
land warrants, issued for military services in the late war with Mexico, by persons
other than the persons to whom such warrants were issued, their widows or heirs, and
that the pay to the several Registers and Receivers of the several land offices an
amount equal to that which they would have been entitled to, had such lands been sold
for money: deducting therefrom any sums which such officers may have received according
to law as fees for the location of land warrants. Such payment to be made out of any
money in the Treasury not
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otherwise appropriated.
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February 26.1848
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Asbury Dickins—February 26.1848
Attest
Secretary
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An act to authorize the allowance of Compensation to the Registers and Receivers of the several land offices of the United States, for locating military bounty land warrants, Choctaw land scrip, and for other purposes.
An act to authorize the allowance of Compensation to the Registers and Receivers of the several land offices of the United States, for locating military bounty land warrants, Choctaw land scrip, and for other purposes.
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Partially Printed Document, 4 page(s), Volume 469, RG 46, Entry 427: Records of the United States Senate, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the Senate, Senate Bills and Resolutions Upon Which Further Action Was Taken, 1847-1849, NAB,