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Washington, a circular has been issued respecting the purchase and culture of land in the
vicinity of Beaufort and the neighboring islands. The President’s instructions are
that any loyal person who has resided for six months upon, or is engaged in cultivating
any lands in that district, owned by the United States, may enter the same for pre-emption
to the extent of one, or, at the option of the pre-emptor, two tracts of twenty acres
each, paying therefor $125 per acre. Preference in all cases is given to heads of
families, and to married women whose husbands are engaged in the service of the United
States, or are necessarily absent. Soldiers, sailors, or marines, in service or honorably
discharged, may pre-empt at the same rate, one tract if single, and if married, two tracts
of twenty acres each. |
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