Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 41U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - Public lands |
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36 Stat A. B. Campbell acres act of February act of June act of March ADAMS additional entry affidavit Alaska amended appeal application approved April April 28 assignment Assistant Secretary August August 24 authorized canceled Carey Act certificate charge claim claimant coal lands Commissioner Congress contest court cultivation Cunningham declaratory statement deposits desert-land District of Alaska embraced entered entryman farm unit February 19 filed final proof grant hereby Hetch Hetchy Valley homestead act homestead entry homestead law Interior irrigation issued January July June 17 June 25 land district Land Office lode March 26 ment mineral mining nonmineral notice October overruled patent payment permit person placer placer mining preference right prior public lands purchase purpose Railway Company register and receiver regulations relinquishment reservation residence Revised Statutes rule SAMUEL ADAMS selection showing survey thereof thereto tion tract warrant withdrawal
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Page 321 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location.
Page 507 - Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify. declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury...
Page 255 - ... no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located.
Page 601 - That the right of way through the public lands of the United States is hereby granted to any railroad company duly organized under the laws of any state or territory, except the District of Columbia, or by the congress of the United States...
Page 221 - SEC. 2347. Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States...
Page 574 - States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption, or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office...
Page 301 - The three preceding sections shall be held to authorize only one entry by the same person or association of persons; and no association of persons any member of which shall have taken the benefit of such sections, either as an individual or as a member of any other association, shall enter or hold any other lands under the provisions thereof...
Page 152 - That the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall, from and after the passage of this act, execute or cause to be executed all laws affecting public lands heretofore or hereafter reserved under the provisions of section twenty-four of the act entitled "An act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes...
Page 150 - That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the use of rights of way through the public lands, forest and other reservations of the United .States...
Page 298 - Office shall perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States...