Persons claiming a preference in purchasing to deliver notice in writing to the register of the land-office, &c.
If a person is entitled to a preference he may enter the same.That every person claiming a preference in becoming the purchaser of a tract of land, in virtue of this act, shall make known his claim, by delivering a notice in writing, to the register of the land-office, for the district in which the land may lie, wherein he shall particularly designate the quarter section he claims; which notice the register shall file in his office, on receiving twenty-five cents from the person delivering the same. And in every case where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of public monies of the land-office, that any person, who has delivered his notice of claim, is entitled, according to the provisions of this act, to a preference in becoming the purchaser of a quarter section of land, such person so entitled shall have a right to enter the same, with the register of the land-office, on producing his receipt from the receiver of public monies for at least one twentieth part of the purchase money, as in case of other public lands sold at private sale:Proviso.
How the preference may be forfeited. Provided, that all lands to be sold under this act shall be entered with the register, at least two weeks before the time of the commencement of the public sales, in the district wherein the land lies: and every person having a right of preference in becoming the purchaser of a tract of land, who shall fail so to make his entry with the register, within the time prescribed, his right shall be forfeited, and the land by him claimed shall be offered at public sale, with the other public lands in the district to which it belongs.
Approved, February 5, 1813.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XXI.—An Act authorizing a Loan for a sum not exceeding sixteen millions of dollars.
President authorized to borrow, on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding sixteen millions of dollars.
Reimbursable in twelve years from the first of January, 1814.
Sale of certificates of stock a good execution of power to borrow.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to borrow, on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding sixteen millions of dollars, to be applied, in addition to the monies now in the treasury, or which may be received from other sources, to defray any of the expenses which have been, or, during the present session of Congress, may be authorized by law, and for which appropriations have been, or, during the present session of Congress, may be made by law: Provided, that no engagement nor contract shall be entered into, which shall preclude the United States from reimbursing any sum or sums thus borrowed, at any time after the expiration of twelve years, from the first day of January next: And it is hereby further declared, That it shall be deemed a good execution of the said power to borrow, for the President of the United States to cause to be sold the whole or any part of the certificates of stock issued for the sums to be borrowed by virtue of this act.
President to cause to be laid before Congress an account of all the monies obtained by sale of certificates, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States do cause to be laid before Congress, on the first Monday in February, eighteen hundred and fourteen, or as soon thereafter as Congress may be in session, an account of all the monies obtained by the sale of the certificates of stock, by virtue of the power given him by the preceding section, together with a statement of the rate at which the same may have been sold.
Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President, to employ agents to obtain subscriptions to the loan.Commission to agents.
Forty thousand dollars appropriated to pay commissions and defray other expenses.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to employ, with the approbation of the President of the United States, an agent or agents, for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the loan authorized by this act, or of selling any part of the stock created by virtue thereof. A commission not exceeding one quarter of one per cent. on the amount thus sold, or for which subscriptions shall have been thus obtained, may, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be allowed to such agent or agents; and a sum
