Index To The Reports Of Committees Of The House Of Representatives For The First And Second Of The Forty Fifth Congress 1877 1878 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...meridian. Your memorialist made the proper and usual proof on the whole oue hundred am! sixty acres, not supposing anything dono by Sarah Nix could be regarded as final pre oniptiou proof, and tor the further reason that the register of the land office at Camdii: advised me to that course. Supposing that I had done all the law required me to uV I expected to receive a patent from the General Laud Office, but you can imagine mv surprise when I was notified that the Commissioner of the General Land Office had n the 25th of March, 1878, rejected my applicat ion to prove up and pay for the pre-emption of my mother as her heir, on the ground mainly that the payment of the $50 hy my mother, Sarah Nix, made on the 3lst day of March, 1854, appeared on the record in the General Land Office as an entry in regular form, and operated as a waiver t" all but a portion of the tract which was covered by the said payment. As before stated, that payment was intended to be a deposit, ou what would, in proper time, become an entry when the whole tract was proved np and paid for. Sarah Nix paid and made an affidavit that she lived upon the land and had made an improvement in compliance with the requirements of the district officers. This oath sbe made before a justice of the peace near her home, and not before the register, as the record shows m the General Laud Office, and it certainly was not her intention to waive any right to any portion of her claim, but she, on the contrary, was struggling to make arrangements to secure her home whon the projier time should arrive far final payment, nor was anything further ever required of her, though the records show thai a good deal more has been done, which need not be wondered at, when we exaiuiii the...