Chapter 348. to provide for the appraisement and sale of lots in the town of Pern, Dubuque County, IowaMarch 3, 1885
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CHAP. 348.— An Act to provide for the appraisement and sale of lots in the town of Pern, Dubuque County, IowaMarch 3, 1885. Whereas, under an act approved July second, eighteen hundred andLots in Peru, Iowa.1836, vol. 5. ch. 262, p. 70.1837, vol. 5, ch. 36, p. 178.Preamble. thirty-six, and an act amendatory thereto, approved March third eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled “An act for laying off the towns of Fort Madison and Burlington, in the county of Des Moines, and the towns of Bellevue, Dubuque, and Peru, in the county of Dubuque,” and so forth, certain disposition was therein provided for the lands set oil for such towns; and Whereas the site for the said town of Peru, in the year eighteen hundred and forty, and the lots thus reserved, have been settled upon by bona fide settlers, who have made valuable improvements thereon:
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*President to appoint commissioners to appraise., That the President of the United States appoint three commissioners, any two of whom shall be a quorum to do business, who, before entering upon the discharge of Duties of commissioners.their duties, shall take an oath to faithfully perform the same. Said commissioners shall have power, and it is hereby made their duty, to view said lots and appraise their value, not taking into consideration the improvements thereon; after which appraisement the proper Sale; how conducted.register and the proper receiver shall expose said lots to public sale to the highest bidder, after advertising the same in three public newspapers Lots, paid for or patented,reserved.at least three months, reserving from such sale such lots as, according to the records of the General Land Office, have already been paid for Actual settlers may purchase at appraised value.or patented: *Provided*, That the actual settlers upon said lots who have made valuable improvements thereon shall first be entitled to purchase the same at their appraised value.
Sec. 2. That said commissioners shall each be entitled to five dollarsPay of commissioners. per day for each day actually employed as provided above, to be paid by the receiver of public moneys of the proper land district. Approved, March 3d, 1885.