No. 2. GENERAL LAND OFFICE, GENTLEMEN: I am in receipt of a letter from J. H. Birch. jr., attorney for Redan and White, enclosing military bounty land warrant No. 38173, for 80 acres, with an application made on the 2d September, 1856, by James D. White and Martin W. Redan, to locate land warrant on the west half of lots Nos. 1 and 2 of northwest quarter of section 4, township 63, range 37, Plattsburg district, Missouri, and a certificate from the receiver of public moneys, showing that a fee of two dollars was received by him from said White and Redan for the location of said warrant. It appears from this letter that Martin W. Redan and James D. White applied to locate warrant No. 38173 on the above described tract, and were refused permission to locate the same for the reason that, under the rule adopted by a former register, applications for about 100,000 acres had accumulated, and that the present register, therefore, refused to receive any further application until those then on hand had been disposed of; and that the papers in this case are submitted for the purpose of ascertaining whether a register of the land office can properly refuse at any time to receive an application to enter a tract of land which is vacant, and to the entry of which there appears to be no legal objections. In reply, I have to state that it is the duty of a register to receive and to act upon and consummate, so far as his official action is required for that purpose, at the time of reception, all such applications, to enter or locate lands, subject to entry at private sale, as may be presented to him in the regular order of the business of each day, taking care at the same time, when there is a crowd in the office, not to allow a monopoly of purchase in favor of any one person, and not permitting any one person to purchase or locate, at any one time, more than the extent of an ordinary entry. It is then the duty of the receiver of public moneys to receive, in cash, land warrants, or scrip, payment for each tract so sold by the register, and certified as sold in the regular order, during each day of the reception by him of the necessary certificates from the register and full consideration for the tract so purchased or located, thus consummating, before the close of each day, every entry for which full payment has been made during the day. If at any time a greater number of applications for the entry or location of land should be tendered at your office than can be attended to and consummated in the regular order of their reception, they should be allowed to remain in the hands of the applicant until they can be so received and consummated. The fact that an applicant has tendered his application and consideration for the tract he desires to purchase or locate, at a time when the business before you would not permit you even to examine, much less to consummate, the entry or location, gives him no right to make a subsequent entry or location of the tract in preference to one who may have made a proper application and tender for the same tract at a time when his application could be attended to and consummated. You will furnish Mr. Birch with a copy of this letter, if he desires it, and return him the warrant and other papers which are herewith enclosed for that purpose. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, REGISTER and RECEIVER, Plattsburg, Missouri. Commissioner. No. 3. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., We the undersigned make application to locate the following described lands, situated in the Plattsburg district, viz: In the names of Peter McLaughlin and Henry F. Felix, of Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania: No. 46,705, for 160 acres, to wit: the NW. of section 21, township 63, range 34. Nos. 41,194, for 160 acres; 46,253, for 120 acres; 33,223, for 120 acres; 81,074, for 120 acres ; 63,544, for 120 acres, to wit: section 9, township 63, range 24. No. 28,031, for 160 acres, to wit: the SW. of section 10, township 63, range 34. No. 50,257, for 160 acres, to wit: the NE. of section 5, township 3, range 34. Nos. 28,011, for 160 acres; 70,323, for 120 acres; 69,841, for 120 acres; 70,293, for 120 acres; 28,431, for 120 acres, to wit: the section 4, township 63, range 34. Nos. 72,246, for 120 acres; 75,037, for 120 acres; 18,542, for 80 acres, to wit: the NW. and SW. quarters of section 3, township 63, range 34. Nos. 49,639, for 160 acres; 83,303, for 120 acres; 53,943, for 120 acres; 23,598, for 80 acres, to wit: NE., SE. and SW. quarters of section 33, township 64, range 34. Nos. 40,631, for 160 acres; 77,846, for 120 acres; 68,227, for 120 acres; 43,208, for 80 acres, to wit: the NW., SW. and NE. quarters of section 34, township 64, range 34. No. 50,330, for 160 acres, to wit: the SW. of section 27, township 64, range 34. Nos. 84,413, for 120 acres; 69,367, for 120 acres; 31,642, for 80 acres, to wit: the NE. and SW. quarters of section 36, township 63, range 34. No. 20,377, for 160 acres, to wit: the NE. of section 27, township 63, range 34. Nos. 72,384, for 120 acres; 77,644, for 120 acres; 70,934, for 120 acres; 74,221, for 120 acres; 36,710, for 80 acres, to wit: the NW., NE. and SE. quarters, and the eastern quarter of the SW. of section 26, township 63, range 34. Nos. 52,805, for 160 acres; 85,243, for 120 acres; 58,293, for 120 acres; 87,675, for 120 acres ; 36,347, for 120 acres, to wit: section 25, township 63, range 34. Nos. 60,842, for 120 acres ; 75,061, for 120 acres, to wit: the SE. and the eastern half of the northeastern quarter of section 23, township 63, range 34. Nos. 25,022, for 160 acres ; 76,921, for 120 acres; 84,553, for 120 acres; 74,007, for 120 acres ; 81,559, for 120 acres, to wit: section 24, township 63, range 34. No. 51,406, for 160 acres, to wit: the eastern quarter of the northeastern quarter of the southeastern quarter of section 14, township 63, range 34. Nos. 50,637, for 160 acres ; 56,040, for 120 acres; 79,039, for 120 acres; 69,535, for 120 acres ; 79,002, for 120 acres, to wit: section 13, township 63, range 34. Nos. 41,319, for 120 acres; 63,370, for 120 acres; 40,435, for 80 acres, to wit: the NE. and SE. quarters of section 12, township 63, range 34. No. 52,241, for 160 acres, to wit: the NE. of section 17, township 62, range 33. Nos. 54,120, for 120 acres; 55,210, for 120 acres, to wit: the SE. and the eastern quarter of the NW. of section 7, township 62, range 33. Nos. 31,732, for 160 acres; 69,141, for 120 acres; 84,365, for 120 acres; 60,015, for 120 acres; 65,206, for 120 acres, to wit: section 8, township 62, range 33. Nos. 48,450, for 160 acres; 9,499, for 120 acres; 86,790, for 120 acres; 73,367, for 120 acres; 41,064, for 120 acres, to wit: section 9, township 62, range 33. Nos. 51,646, for 160 acres; acres; 80,059, for 120 acres; township 62, range 33. Nos. 34,772, for 160 acres; acres; 81,846, for 120 acres; township 62, range 33. Nos. 51,111, for 160 acres; acres; 84,272, for 120 acres; township 62, range 33. 86,631, for 120 acres; 30,876, for 120 80,341, for 120 acres, to wit: section 6, 66,259, for 120 acres; 70,656, for 120 59,825, for 120 acres to wit: section 5, 76,537, for 120 acres; 86,543, for 120 85,995, for 120 acres, to wit: section 4, Nos. 81,419, for 120 acres; 75,031, for 120 acres; 86,330, for 120 acres; 69,783, for 120 acres; 42,467, for 80 acres, to wit: the NW. and the SW., the NE., NW. and SW. quarters of the NE., and NW., SW. and SE. quarters of the SE. of section 31, township 63, range 33. Nos. 23,722, for 160 acres; 71,449, for 120 acres; 82,062, for 120 acres; 65,073, for 120 acres; 83,369, for 120 acres, to wit: section 33, township 63, range 33. Nos. 48,353, for 160 acres; 4,502, for 160 acres; 43,233, for 160 acres: 45,117, for 160 acres, to wit: section 30, township 63, range 33. Nos. 35,929, for 80 acres; 28,391, for 80 acres, to wit: the western quarter of the northwestern quarter, and the western quarter of the southwestern quarter of section 29, township 63, range 33. Nos. 49365 for 160 acres, 29703 for 160 acres, 34168 for 160 acres, 54160 for 160 acres, to wit: section 19, township 63, range 33. Nos. 47041 for 160 acres, 85534 for 120 acres, 79242 for 120 acres, to wit: the northwestern quarter, the western quarter of the southwestern quarter, the eastern quarter of the northeastern quarter, and the eastern quarter of the southeastern quarter of section 20, township 63, range 33. Nos. 49736 for 160 acres, 38528 for 160 acres, 44859 for 160 acres, to wit: the north western, southwestern, and southeastern quarters of section 18, township 63, range 33. Nos. 48146 for 160 acres, 46988 for 160 acres, 45415 for 160 acres, 50490 for 160 acres, to wit: section 7, township 63, range 33. No. 35287 for 160 acres, to wit: the northwest quarter of section 8, township 63, range 33. Nos. 36079 for 160 acres, 46857 for 160 acres, 33973 for 160 acres, 40961 for 160 acres, to wit: section 9, township 63, range 33. Nos. 42656 for 160 acres, 36022 for 160 acres, to wit: the northeast and the northwest quarters of section 6, township 63, range 33. Nos. 35417 for 160 acres, 31174 for 80 acres, 41325 for 80 acres, 33757 for 80 acres, 35877 for 80 acres, 29385 for 80 acres, 36875 for 80 acres, to wit: section 5, township 63, range 33. Nos. 27041 for 80 acres, 36672 for 80 acres, 43227 for 80 acres, 29672 for 80 acres, 28414 for 80 acres, 33843 for 80 acres, 42175 for 80 acres, 37280 for 80 acres, to wit: section 4, township 63, range 33. Nos. 34627 for 80 acres, 36774 for 80 acres, 34277 for 80 acres, 33084 for 80 acres, 36729 for 80 acres, 22726 for 80 acres, 12644 for 80 acres, 23874 for 80 acres, to wit: section 3, township 62, range 33. Nos. 18330 for 160 acres, 49663 for 160 acres, 20361 for 160 acres, 24348 for 160 acres, to wit: section 22, township 63, range 33. Nos. 48449 for 160 acres, 31785 for 160 acres, 50593 for 160 acres, 38963 for 160 acres, to wit: section 15, township 63, range 33. No. 82193 for 120 acres, the northwest, southwest, and southeast quarters of the southwest quarter of section 10, township 63, range 33. PÉTER MCLAUGHLIN, HENRY F. FELIX. Hon. THOS. A. HENDRICKS, Commissioner of the General Land Office. PLATTSBURG, August 4, 1857. GENTLEMEN: In reply to your letter of this date, I have to state that the foregoing is a descriptive list of the tracts of lands applied for by Messrs. McLaughlin and Felix on the 26th of November, 1856. Yours, respectfully, Messrs. WINSLOW TURNER, Register, and H. WHITTINGTON. H. F. FELIX. No. 4. GENERAL LAND OFFICE, February 6, 1857. GENTLEMEN I forward herewith, for location, 152 military bounty land warrants, received at this office from the assignees, Messrs. Peter McLaughlin and Henry F. Felix, of Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania, also map of Nodaway county, Missouri, showing by red and yellow shades the tracts on which they desire that these warrants shall be located, and a descriptive list of said warrants in which the particular tract or tracts on which each of the above mentioned warrants should be located is fully set forth, also a copy of a receipt from Messrs. Adams & Co's. Express Company, (the original of which is on file in this office,) showing that McLaughlin and Felix have placed in their hands, to be forwarded to you, four hundred and seventy-seven dollars in gold for the payment of the fees to which you will be entitled for making said locations. These gentlemen have furnished this office with the highest testimony of their intentions in making their locations of forming an actual and permanent settlement, in a manner to advance the public interest, both State and federal. You will, therefore, without delay, examine the records and plats of your office and locate the warrants in accordance with the descriptive list on such of the tracts therein named as are at the date of the reception of this letter vacant public lands, subject to such locations, and return the duplicate certificates of location with the list and map to this office in a special letter on the subject. In order to avoid delay in this matter I have caused the warrants and the assignments endorsed thereon to be carefully examined in this office, and find them in all respects to be sufficient, they will, therefore, not require the usual examination, in that respect, by you. In making up your monthly abstract of locations, for the month in which these locations shall have been made, you will make in the margin opposite each of these cases a reference to this letter by its date. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, REGISTER and RECEIVER, Plattsburg, Missouri. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, Commissioner. Great Eastern, Western, and Southern Package Express. THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY. WASHINGTON, D. C., February 5, 1857 Received of McLaughlin & Felix, in apparent good order, to be forwarded to Henry Whittington, Plattsburg, Mo., only the undermentioned articles, marked as per margin, and subject to the agreement now made and herein expressed, as follows: It is agreed, and is part of the consideration of this contract, that |
