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We are under obligations to Gen. E.wino for the following regulations in relation to the mode ot proceeding adopted at the Ge- neral Land Office, to enable soldiers of the late war to relinqush such bounty lands as are unit for cultivation, and to enter other lands in lieu thereof.-W. yfsiU.

 GENERAL LAND OFFICE.

 Feb. IT, 1884. SIR-In answer to your letter of the Ith inst, requesting information as 10 the mode of proceeding to effect an exchange of a 1 tract of Military Bounty Land, &e. I have the honor to state, that the person who may wish to obtain the benefits of the act of 22d May 1926, entitled An act authorizing cer- tain soldiers of the late war to surrender the Bounty Lands draws by them, and to locate others In lieu thereof, the benefit of which act has been revived and extended by the act of 23d March, 1880, to persons having like claims in Illinois and Missouri. must make application to exchange his tract to the Register and Receiver in whose district the tract intended to be exchanged is situ- ated, and file with those officers. proof to the following effect, viz:

 | 1st. That his tract granted to him for military services, is unfit for cultivation. 2d. That he has not divested himself of his interest in his land, and that the same has not been sold fer taxes.

 Sd. That he has removed to the State or Territory in which his tract is situated, for the purpose of actual settlement on the said tract.

 The proof of the land being unfit for cul- tivation, should be the affidavit of some dis- interested and respectable person, who shaii actually have examined the whole land.

 The proof that the party has not ,liyested himself of his interest in the land, and that the tract has not been sold for taxes, must be the certificate of the proper officer that there IS no deed of record going to show the fact, and the certificate of the auditor of State that the land has not been sold fer taxes.

 The proof that the party has removed to the State for the purpose of actual settle- ment, must be such as will be entirely sat- isfactory to the Receiver and Register.

 The patent fer the original location must be surrendered, with a deed of relinauish- ment, duly recorded and certified, and both the patent and the deed of relinquishment to the United States of the tract indicated in the patent, must be forwarded to this office, with certificate from the register of the new location, on which certificate this office will issue patent.

 The military district in Illinois is attached to the Quincy district; that in Missouri to the Fayette district, and that in Arkansas to the Batesville and Little Rock districts.

 am sir, with great respect,

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