land in question shall be treated as unoffered, without regard to whether it may have actually been at some time offered or not. wise authorized. SEC. 2. That all public lands within the State of Mis- Missouri. souri shall hereafter be subject to disposal at private Sale of lands sale in the manner now provided by law for the sale of offered or other lands which have been publicly offered for sale, whether such lands have ever been offered at public sale or not: Provided, That the actual settlers shall have a prefer- Proviso. ence right, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. (U. S. C., title 43, Preference right sec. 675.) Approved, May 18, 1898 (30 Stat. 418). Extract from the Penal Code of the United States, approved March of actual settlers. prevent bids at SEC. 59. Whoever, before or at the time of the public Agreement to sale of any of the lands of the United States, shall bar- fand sales. gain, contract, or agree, or attempt to bargain, contract, or agree with any other person, that the last-named person shall not bid upon or purchase the land so offered for sale, or any parcel thereof; or whoever by intimidation, combination, or unfair management shall hinder or prevent, or attempt to hinder or prevent, any person from bidding upon or purchasing any tract of land so offered Punishment for. for sale, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 113.) 11992-31- 41 NOTE.-There is but very little scrip proper, such as Valentine scrip and Sioux half-breed scrip, still outstanding. Bounty land warrants are in the nature of scrip. There are also certain rights, frequently called scrip for which see "Forest Lieu Selections," under Forest Reserves," p. 131; "Soldiers' Additional Homesteads," under " Homesteads," p. 172; "Lieu Selections," p. 305; "Agricultural College Grants," under "State Grants," p. 641.-EDITOR. 66 SIOUX HALF-BREED SCRIP An Act To authorize the President of the United States to cause to be surveyed the tract of land in the Territory of Minnesota, belonging to the half-breeds or mixed bloods of the Dacotah or Sioux Nation of Indians, and for other purposes Authority to ex Pepin and Mis Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, change lands on to exchange with the halfbreeds or mixed bloods of the west side of Lake Dacotah or Sioux Nation of Indians, who are entitled Fissippi River. to an interest therein, for the tract of land lying on the west side of Lake Pepin and the Mississippi River, in the Territory of Minnesota, which was set apart and granted for their use and benefit, by the ninth article of the Treaty of Prairie du Chien, of the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and for that purpose he is hereby authorized to cause to be issued to said persons, on the execution by them, or by the legal representatives of such as may be minors, of a full and complete relinquishment by them to the United States of all their right, title, and interest, according to such form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in and to said tract of land or reservation, certificates or scrip for the same amount of land to which each individual would be entitled in case of a division of the said grant or reservation pro rata among the claimants-which said certificates or scrip may be located upon any of the lands within said reservation not now occupied by actual and bona fide settlers of the halfbreeds or mixed bloods, or such other persons as have gone into said Territory by authority of law, or upon any other unoccupied lands subject to preemption or private sale, or upon any other unsurveyed lands, not reserved by Government, upon which they have respectively made improvements: Provided, That said cer- Proviso. tificates or scrip shall not embrace more than six hundred and forty, nor less than forty acres each, and provided that the same shall be equally apportioned, as nearly as practicable, among those entitled to an interest in Further proviso. said reservation: And provided further, That no transfer or conveyance of any of said certificates or scrip shall be valid. When certificates SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President or scrip to issue. be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be ascertained the number and names of the halfbreeds or mixed bloods who are entitled to participate in the benefits of the said grant or reservation as aforesaid, before the issue of the certificates or scrip provided for in the preceding section. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this Act the President is authorized to have the lands within the said reserves surveyed and exposed to public sale at the land offices for the districts in which said lands may lie, according to the boundaries of the several land districts recently established by Congress, in the same manner as other public lands. Approved, July 17, 1854 (10 Stat. 304). VALENTINE SCRIP An Act For the relief of Thomas B. Valentine Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the ninth circuit court of the United States, of California, be, and hereby is, authorized and required to hear and decide upon the merits, the claim of Thomas B. Valentine, claiming title, under a Mexican grant to Juan Miranda, to a place called the Rancho Arroyo de San Antonio, situate in the county of Sonomo, and State of California, in the same manner, and with the same jurisdiction, as if the claim to the said tract of land had been duly presented to the board of land commissioners under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to ascertain and settle the private land claims in the State of California," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and an appeal had been duly taken from their decision to the district court of California by the said Thomas B. Valentine. * SEC. 3. That an appeal shall be taken from the final decision and decree of the said circuit court to the Supreme Court of the United States, by either party, in accordance with the provisions of the tenth section of said Act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, within six months after the rendition of such final decision; and a decree under the provisions of this Act, in favor of said claim, shall not affect any adverse right or title to the lands described in said decree; but in lieu thereof, the claimant, or his legal representatives, may select, and shall be allowed, patents for an equal quantity of the unoccupied and unappropriated public lands of the United States, not mineral, and in tracts not less than the subdivisions provided for in the United States land laws, and, if unsurveyed when taken, to conform, when surveyed, to the general system of United States land surveys; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be authorized to issue scrip, in legal subdivisions, to the said Valentine, or his legal representatives, in accordance with the provisions of this Act: Provided, That no de- Proviso. cree in favor of said Valentine shall be executed nor be of any force or effect against any person or persons; nor shall land scrip or patents issue as hereinbefore provided, unless the said Valentine shall first execute and deliver to the Commissioner of the General Land Office a deed conveying to the United States all his right, title, and interest to the lands covered by said Miranda grant. Approved, April 5, 1872 (17 Stat. 649). LIST OF PRINCIPAL SCRIP ACTS The following is a list containing the more generally known issues of scrip and the Acts of Congress under which the issuance thereof was authorized: New Madrid scrip-Act of February 17, 1815 (3 Stat. 211). McKee scrip, Acts of January 25, 1853 (10 Stat. 745), and March 1, 1889 (25 Stat. 1307). Sioux half-breed scrip-Act of July 17, 1854 (10 Stat. 304). Chippewa half-breed scrip-Treaty of September 30, 1854 (10 Stat. 1109), and Act of December 19, 1854 (10 Stat. 598). Wyandotte scrip-Article 9-Treaty of January 31, 1855 (10 Stat. 1159). Gerard scrip-Act of February 10, 1855 (10 Stat. 849). Valentine scrip-Act of April 5, 1872 (17 Stat. 649). |