EMIGRANTS

have here the U. S. Iomestead Acts, with instructions for obtaining the Government lands at a merely nominal price; the Homestead Exemption Laws of the different States, provisions for naturaliza tion, and all other matters pertaining to citizenship: a statement of the qualifications for a voter in each State, laws respecting the purchase, mortgage, sale and recording of property; Horse, Sheep, Dog, and general Cattle Laws; taking land on shares, etc., etc.

FOR MARRIED MEN AND WOMEN.

There are full instructions for reserving property in view of marriage; the rights of married women in regard to property and to conducting business on their own separate account; laws concerning inheritance, devising of property, wills, joint signature of deeds, mortgages, etc.; complete instructions and forms for proceedings in cases of divorce, and regulations concerning alimony, and the care of children in cases of separation.

EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, GUARDIANS AND MINORS, are also fully provided for, the laws appertaining to their rights and duties being fully and accurately stated.

THE POLITICIAN AND STATESMAN

will find here the whole action of the Government in relation to Reconstruction and the legislation concerning the Freedmen, the Constitution of the United States with all its amendments, the Beals of each State, with many other matters of equal importance.

In short, there is no class of the community, male or female, who have, or expect to have, any property, or who have any rights or privileges which require protection, who will not be greatly benefited and advantaged by the possession of this book. It will save them money, save them trouble, save them time, save them litigation and lawyers' fees, and give them information that nobody can afford to be without.

WELLS'

EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER

AND

BUSINESS FORM BOOK.

A COMPLETE GUIDE IN ALL MATTERS OF LAW AND BUSINESS NEGOTIATIONS, FOR EVERY STATE IN THE UNION.

AGREEMENTS:

ALL Agreements are null and void at the end of one year from their dates, unless the contract, or some memorandum thereof, stating the consideration, be in writing and signed by the parties by whom the agreement is made.

All leases expire at the end of one year, unless there is a written agreement, stating the consideration, for a longer period.

All agreements expire at the end of one year unless they ex plicitly state that they are for a longer period.

Signatures signed with a lead pencil, or by making a mark, if theparties making them cannot write, if done in the presence of one or more witnesses, are good in law. But when a pen can be had, it should be used in preference, to obviate the possibility of legal quibbling.

Agreements which fail to show that they were made for a consideration—that is, without a fair or reasonable sum of money, or property to the value of money-are void in law.

Every agreement should distinctly specify the time within which, or at the end of which, its conditions shall be complied with. Every instrument is better in law with a seal than without one.

General Form of Agreement.

THIS AGREEMENT, made this first day of May, one thousand eight nundred and sixty, between JOHN DEAN, of the city of Hartford, in the county of Hartford, and state of Connecticut, of the firet part, and JAMES GOOD of the village of Windsor, in said county and state, of the second part

WITNESSETH, That the said JOHN DEAN, in consideration of the covenants on the part of the party of the second part, hereinafter contained, doth covenant and agree to and with the said JAMES GOOD, that [here insert the agreement on the part of John Dean.]

And the said JAMES GOOD, in consideration of the covenants on the part of the party of the first part, doth covenant and agree to and with the said JOHN DEAN, that [here insert the agreement on the part of James Good.]

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the day and year first above written.

Sealed and delivered,

in presence of

JOHN STOUT,

ISAAC FOWLER.

JOHN DEAN.

[L.8

JAMES GOOD.

L.8.

[When required this clause may be inserted :]

And it is further agreed, between the parties hereto, that the party that shall fail to perform this agreement on his part, will pay to the other the full sum of fifty dollars, as liquidated, fixed, and settled damages.

Agreement for the Purchase of a House and Lot.

MEMORANDUM of an agreement made this 10th day of July, in the year 1860, between JOHN ROWLEY, Printer, of the city of NewYork, and CARLTON BRYANT, Merchant, of the same city, witnesseth -That the said JOHN ROWLEY agrees to sell, and the said CARLTON BRYANT agrees to purchase, for the price or consideration of dollars, the house and lot known and distinguished as number ninety-nine, in street, in the said city of New-York. The possession of the property is to be delivered on the first day of May next, when twenty-five per cent. of the purchase-money is to be paid in cash, and a bond and mortgage on the premises, bearing seven per cent. interest, payable in five years (such interest paya. ble quarterly), is to be executed for the balance of the purchase