CAUTION TO THE puRIJC.
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 CFBEwARE of ichat arc called 'sFLoAr- ING RIcHTs.o

 The law of the 10th June, 1854, pro- vldes, that when two or more persons are settled on the same tract of land, the two hrst actual settlers shall be permitted 10 di- vide the same equally between them, either bby north and south or an east and west line, whichever mode will best secure to each his improvements; and if this cannot be done Tn the mode prescribed, then the parties are permitted to become joint pup ehdsers of the tract; and in such cases the said tive first actual settlers (separately yeul- tVating,) are permitted to locate each eighty acres elseaehere in the district; which gaght to locale eiselrherc has obtained in the west the denomination of ''FLo4Ts,o or "FLoATING RIGHrs.o

 The term s.foat,' or eGoaiiae. riglt,,' is improper, Inasmuch as it is calculated 10 produce the belief that the right So to locate may remain outstanding at the pleasure of the proprietor. IHe contrary is the faet.

 The right "to locafe eighty acres of taad eiseaohere," which IS the. language of the law, (aehieh right has been aai8aamed q "FLoAT,'9 IS intended by the law to be ex- ercised and secured at the lime of the entIg of he original pre eniptton on which the same accrued. and during the period when the prc-eaptor visits tue Land-ofiee for that purpose.

 GEThe rights of location misaamed "hoats,' cannot possibly originate under the law in any other case than that above described, arliere tteo bona fde claimaats had settled on the same tract of iosd, and iOho caitiuated different portions of it in 1883, and occupied the same on the 18th June, 1884, having separate and distinct interests in the cultivation thereof.

 By the term sstrdct of land,' the law in- tends quarter section, containing oae hun- d''ed and strty acres, or whereabouts; halt ha9 quarter section. containing eiehty acres or thereabouts; quarter guarter of scc- hon, containing forfy acres, or whereabouts; or legal subdivisions of Fractional sec ton, not exceeding m all, the quantity of one hundred and sixty acres or whereabouts, when such fractional section contains more than one hundred and sixty acres.

 Given under my hand, this 22d day of February, 1886.

 ETHAN 4. BROWN,

 Commissioner Of the General Land Office.