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LAND OWNER'S MANUAL

CONTAINING

A SUMMARY OF

STATUTE REGULATIONS,

IN

NEW-YORK, OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN,
IOWA AND WISCONSIN,

CONCERNING

LAND TITLES, DEEDS, MORTGAGES, WILLS OF REAL ESTATE, DESCENTS, LAND
TAXES, TAX SALES, REDEMPTIONS, LIMITATIONS, EXEMPTIONS,
INTEREST OF MONEY AND USURY,

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AUBURN, N.Y.:

J. C. DERBY & CO., PUBLISHERS.

BUFFALO:

DERBY & HEWSON.

CINCINNATI:

DERBY, BRADLEY & CO.

1847.

16-75

KF 570
295
H 35

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and

forty-seven, by

BENJAMIN. F. HALL,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New-York.

PRESS OF JOHN C. MERRELL & CO.,
AUBURN, N. Y.

TESTIMONIALS.

The Publishers beg leave to submit the following extracts from communications relating to the Land Owner's Manual, and its adaptation to the exigencies of the times and the wants of the public:

FROM EX. GOV. WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

"I believe your work will be extensively useful, and think I cannot be mistaken in advising its publication under an expectation that it will be of much service to land owners and to the public."

FROM THE HON. ALFRED CONKLING, U. S. D. C.

"I cannot doubt that an accurate summary of the Statute regulations in the States northwest of the Ohio, concerning the execution, attestation, acknowledgment and recording of deeds, wills of real estate, descents, land taxes and redemptions, is a desideratum, and would be found highly convenient and useful to the profession, as well as to non-resident land owners."

FROM THE HON. MILLARD FILLMORE.

"Such a work is wanted not only by the legal profession of this State, but by many business men having commerce or dealings in the States noticed. Such a manual would furnish just the information which persons interested in western lands desire. It would also be valuable in each of the several States, from the Statutes of which the compilation is made, by furnishing to citizens of each a knowledge of the laws in the other States."

FROM THE HON. FREEBORN G. JEWETT, N. Y. S. C.

"I do not hesitate to express my opinion that a publication containing an accurate summary of the Statute regulations in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, concerning conveyances, wills, land taxes and redemptions, cannot fail to be highly convenient and valuable, as well to the legal profession as to men having property or dealing in the said States."

FROM THE HON. JOSEPH L. RICHARDSON, FIRST JUDGE OF CAYUGA COUNTY,

"I am of opinion that the Land Owner's Manual will be found to be a work of prime necessity. I have through a long life of judicial experience felt the want of such a digest; and I think you will lay the community at large under great obligations by its publication."

FROM S. A. GOODWIN, ESQ., COUNSELLOR, &c.

"Your work evinces industry, research and ability, and will be convenient in the hands of professional gentlemen and others, as it furnishes a ready solution to many questions continually arising with those interested in land titles. It has moreover many points of interest to the antiquarian tastes of the general reader."

FROM THE HON. ABRAHAM GRIDLEY, N. Y. SENATE.

"I am satisfied that the Land Owner's Manual cannot fail to be of vast utility not only to emigrants but to every person interested in western lands. The documentary history of each State will be interesting to the public generally. I hope the manuscript may be put to press, and doubt not that its sale will be rapid and general. I recall many instances of perplexity and embarrassment whilst acting as County Clerk some twenty years ago, concerning the execution, attestation, and recording of foreign conveyances which such a book would have obviated. I would advise that it be condensed in size as far as practicable, so that it may not be so voluminous or expensive as to be beyond the command of every one who needs it."

FROM THE HON. JOHN PORTER.

"From a cursory examination of the sheets of your work I find evidence of your assiduity in collecting the necessary materials for such a publication; and of your judgment and skill in arranging them in a form convenient and useful for reference. Those seeking historical information upon subjects of which you treat, and others interested in the municipal regulations of New-York and the Western States, so far as relate to land titles, must feel under obligations to you for the ready means your book will afford of ascertaining those rules by which they must be governed in various transactions of business, as well as for the appropriate remarks with which you accompany elucidate and apply them."

FROM NELSON BEARDSLEY, ESQ., COUNSELLOR, &c.

"Having heretofore experienced inconvenience from the want of information now so readily obtained from your "Land Owner's Manual," I can more fully ap preciato the value of your labors. The work is evidently the fruit of much re

search, and cannot fail to commend itself to all who have business relations with the people of the States, of whose laws and statute regulations you treat in so lucid and practical a manner."

FROM THE HON. GEORGE RATHBUN.

"Your work I have no doubt will be found a convenient, useful and valuable book, not only to non-resident land owners, but to our citizens generally, compri sing as it does much useful information upon a great variety of subjects."

FROM MICHAEL S. MYERS, ESQ., COUNSELLOR, &c.

"I concur in the opinions expressed in favor of your Land Owner's Manual. The scope and matter of the work must render it useful to the profession, and instructive to the general reader.

FROM GEO. W. FITCH, M. D, (IOWA.)

"If you can present the subject of land taxes in five or six States in a condensed work, so that it can be readily procured by the people at large, I think you will confer a favor upon the immense number of persons who are yearly purchasing lands at the west."

FROM JAMES H. BOSTWICK, ESQ., MAGISTRATE AND SURVEYOR.

"A guide to conveyancing for record in the western States is much wanted by magistrates in New-York. A reliable work of that kind, and which shall contain the regulations concerning taxes and the redemption of forfeited lands would supply a hiatus in the book market, and be of much service to the public. If you have the materials from which you can prepare a work of that kind, you will oblige me, as no doubt you will all Justices of the Peace, Commissioners, and Clerks of counties, by so doing.

FROM EBENEZER B. COBB, ESQ., CLERK OF CAYUGA COUNTY.

"I know of no book so much wanted by Clerks of Counties, as one which shall contain exact information concerning the signing, sealing, attestation, proof and acknowledgment and certificate of authentication of deeds and mortgages, executed in New-York, but designed for record in other States. The number of such conveyances annually executed and brought to Commissioners and Clerks of Counties to be certified, is immense, and the importance of a work containing the statute regulations of the State where they are to be read in evidence, or recorded, is commensurate with the number. I was, therefore, much gratified to learn that you were engaged in preparing a book containing the information so generally wanted. As such a work can hardly fail to be appreciated and purchased by a large proportion of the owners of western lands, residing in the middle and eastern States, I hope you will hasten its publication."

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