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 246 THIR.TY·SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. UH. 145. 1853. demand, with a. salary each of three thousand dollars per annum, payable Location ofland quarter-yearly ; and the land officc shall be located at such Place as the °m°°· President, in view of the public convcnicucc, shall from uma to time direct ; aud,prcvi0usly to entering on the duties of their offices, they each shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, before one of the Judges of the United States Courts, or other competent officer, to support the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their respective ounces, and shall give bond in the same amount as other registers and receivers of the public land officesg and their general duties and responsibilities shall be the same as other oillccrs of like character: Ca.1if<>mia,m¤.y Provided, however, That at such time or times as in his judgment the be diymd M0 public interest may so imperatively require, and in the absence of any ?§g$Sst€:ma??d further and special legislation of Congress on the subject, it shall be pointed. lawful for the President of the United States to divide the State of Culifomia into two or three separate and distinct land districts, as circumstances shall determine to be necessary, embracing respectively the upper and lower, or the upper, middle, and lower portions of the State; and he shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or during the recess of Congress when necessary, a. register of the land office and receiver of public moneys for each of such land districts; and the land offices for the same respectively shall be located at, and be removed from time to time to such places as the President shall deem most suitable for public convenience. Public lands m SEO. 6. And be itjorther enacted, That all the public lands in the (7¤¤U¢`<¤¤i¤» H- State of California, whether surveyed or unsurveycd, with the exception ciuimeyl, Gm., to to the State for the purposes of public schools in each township, and b° ¤¤PJ°¤”<>§”°· with the exception of lands appropriated under the authority of this act, omptxon un ar · . . . Mt of 184L 6h_ or reserved by competent authorxty, and cxcepting also the lands claimed 16- under any foreign grant 01* title and the mineral lands, shall be subject to the preemption laws of fourth September, eighteen hundred and forty- one, with all the exceptions, conditions, and limitations therein, except as is herein otherwise provided; and shall, after the plats thereof arc Sale thmoi returned to the office of the register, be offered for sale, after six momhs’ public notice in the State of the time and place of sale, under the laws, rules, and regulations now governing such sales, or such as may be here- Noticgofclaim after prescribed: Provided, That where uusurvcyed lands arc claimed ofprcémption. by preemption, the usual notice of such claim shall be Bled within three months after the return of the plats of surveys to the land offices, and prod? and payment shall be made prior to the day appointed by the Pl‘6Sid6Dl»,S proclamation for the commencement of the sale, including such lands; the entry of such claims to be mndc by legal subdivisions, uccording to the United Stutcs’ survey, and in the most compact form: who may be And provided further, That the fact of persons having heretofore had P”°°mP“°“°”· the benefit of said act of the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, shall intcrposc no bar to their obtaining the benefits of this uct; und all of said lands that shall remain unsold after having been Privwta entry- proclaimed and offered, shall be subject to entry at private salc as other public land, at the same minimum price pcr acre; and the register and receiver shall not be entitled to any por ccntage or fees, except for deciding preemption cases, when each of them shall be allowed the same fees as are paid to other like officers; but the receiver shall be entitled to his actual necessary expenses, going and returning, in making his deposits: P*'°'i¤°°~ Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize any 1854, ch. 17. settlement to be made on any public lands not surveyed, unless the same bc made within one year from the passage of this act; nor shall any right of such settlers be recognized by virtue of any settlement or improvement made of such unsurveyed lands subsequent to that dny: And provided further, That this act shall not be construed to authorize any
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