What will these men think, who have placed themselves on a vacant spot, anxiously waiting its disposition by the Government, to find their pre-emption right engrossed by the purchaser of a million of acres?
If the owners had only a pre-emption right, Mr. S.
But, nevertheless, they are willing to pay an equitable price for those lands; and if they may be indulged with a pre-emption to the purchase, no men will be better friends to the Government.
It had been alleged that the right of pre-emption was the only right in possession of the States, that is, a title to purchase of the holders of the property, in exclusion of all other States, or individuals thereof or the particular State.
All that could be, or was proved to belong to North Carolina, was the colonial right to qualified sovereignty, called the pre-emption right.
He was among the foremost who advocated a railroad to the Pacific coast, and it was Thomas Benton who first introduced the idea of congress granting pre-emption rights to actual settlers.
A great many pre-emption cases are contested before the land officers, in which the services of lawyers are required.
A like vote was secured in favor of the bill to prevent the further disposition of the public lands save under the pre-emption and homestead laws, for which I had labored for years.
I was full of the subject, and was obliged, also, to give particular attention to the pre-emption of J.
King's letter, has, at the present writing, a large quantity of government land open to homestead and pre-emption entries.
They knew that no one could rightfully dispute their claim to him, and proud in their pre-emption right, they retired into their dwelling with newly awakened pleasure.
The settlement I designed locating in, was a very new one, the majority of the residents holding their lands merely by pre-emption claims, little of the country having been offered for sale by "Uncle Sam.
At length, however, these western pioneers were aroused from their quietude and inactivity by the news that Congress had passed the famous Pre-emption Law.
In the month of June or July there was a town laid off, partly on my pre-emption and partly on lands belonging to government.
In all cases where lands have been granted to railroad companies, lands to which pre-emption rights attached at the time the line of the road was fixed have been saved to the pre-emption and homestead claimants.
You will in no case allow pre-emption filing, or homestead entry on this class of lands, without instructions from this office.
While the acts of congress exclude from the grants to railroad companies all lands held by pre-emption and homestead claims, the secretary of the interior says it means valid claims.
Therefore, as the fraudulent character of the pre-emption or homestead claim in its inception may be brought in question, it is right that the parties in interest should have an opportunity in all cases to be heard.
We are not aware of any law of the United States recognizing the right of railroad companies to become parties in a contest concerning a homestead or pre-emption right.
The pre-emption and homestead laws were passed for the benefit of the actual settlers of the country.
The acts granting lands to railroad companies made no provision for the selection by them of lands held by pre-emption or homestead claimants at the time the lines of their roads were fixed, and subsequently abandoned.
Tharpe, Greer's case being a pre-emption claim on the basis of military service.
Furthermore, the validation of these claims beyond the purchase line of the Stanwix Treaty of 1768 provided the first legal recognition of pre-emption in the State of Pennsylvania.
The tremendous increase in the last two assessments may be due to the purchase of 1784 and the subsequent legitimizing of claims through the establishment of pre-emption rights.
These petitions achieved notable results in that the right of pre-emption for the West Branch squatters was recognized by the Commonwealth long before the national government endorsed the principle.
However, their key leaders lived on the periphery; and the settlers petitioned the Commonwealth government for assistance in the vital questions of defense and pre-emption rights.
And finally, they returned after the second "New Purchase" in 1784, which resulted in the recognition of their pre-emption claims for their earlier illegal settlements.
It is interesting to note that pre-emption claims were recognized in the West Branch Valley some forty-five years prior to federal legislation to that effect.
It has been decided that an unmarried or single woman over the age of twenty-one years, not the head of the family, but able to meet all the requirements of the pre-emption law, has the right to claim its benefits.
A party who has proved up and paid for a tract of land under the Pre-emption Act, can subsequently enter another tract of land under the Homestead Act.
When a party has made a settlement on a surveyed tract of land, and filed his pre-emption declaration thereof, he may change his filing into a homestead.
Under this act, one hundred and sixty acres of land subject to pre-emption at $1.
The assignment of a pre-emption right is null and void.
If a homestead settler does not wish to remain five years on his tract, the law permits him to pay for it with cash or military warrants, upon making proof of residence and cultivation as required in pre-emption cases.
Here they made a purchase of about four hundred acres, and petitioned Congress for a pre-emption right to some thousands adjoining.
The province still claimed the right of pre-emption with respect to the whole of their reserve.
They would give him pre-emption rights over land estimated to be worth twenty thousand pounds and an annual allowance of fifteen hundred dollars.
All pre-emption rights and reservations provided for in articles 12 and 13 are declared void.
Erroneously supposing that these lands are subject to pre-emption laws, some of the recent emigrants have attempted to settle upon them.
The right of pre-emption of all minor forest produce collected by the Chenchus for sale or barter shall be reserved to the Forest department.
A homesteader who has exhausted his homestead right and cannot obtain a pre-emption may take a purchased homestead in certain districts.
We have heard indignation expressed at the way in which the natives were, in the treaty, overreached by the Government, especially in the matter of securing to the Queen the right of pre-emption in the purchase of their lands.
Pre-emption rights confer the privilege only of purchasing the tract containing improvements at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, by the possessor, without the risk of a public sale.
The homestead laws have created a better and more certain manner for settlers to acquire land than under the pre-emption acts.
At all events, the fellow will be too poor to exercise the pre-emption right, and of course must move off.
And so, notwithstanding the pre-emption of a large portion of the best arable lands of the Territory by the Mormons, there is yet a large and fertile acreage open for settlement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emption" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buy; marketing; option; preemption; refusal; shopping
