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... persons interested in that important work , and gratifying results gained have been evident to all . Last year I spoke also of the Indian school at Carlisle , then established by this department , under the superintendency of Capt Pratt ...
... persons interested in that important work , and gratifying results gained have been evident to all . Last year I spoke also of the Indian school at Carlisle , then established by this department , under the superintendency of Capt Pratt ...
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... persons from invading the Indian reservation and provol collisions with the Indians , which would be especially deplorable time when the so - called Ute problem is on the point of successful s tion by just and peaceable agencies and in ...
... persons from invading the Indian reservation and provol collisions with the Indians , which would be especially deplorable time when the so - called Ute problem is on the point of successful s tion by just and peaceable agencies and in ...
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... persons with persistent activity . The defense of the Indian Territory against that invasion would inevitably become much more precarious , and the breaking down of all barriers before the Indian tribes inhabiting the Territory are pre ...
... persons with persistent activity . The defense of the Indian Territory against that invasion would inevitably become much more precarious , and the breaking down of all barriers before the Indian tribes inhabiting the Territory are pre ...
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... persons throughout the States and Territories as to what legislation might be required regard- ing the disposal of the public domain . This circular letter contained , among many others , inquiries in regard to rainfall , irrigation ...
... persons throughout the States and Territories as to what legislation might be required regard- ing the disposal of the public domain . This circular letter contained , among many others , inquiries in regard to rainfall , irrigation ...
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... persons answering their circular letters of inqui which has been before reported to Congress , that I deem no furth reference to that subject necessary in my report . The codification by the commission of nearly three thousand acts ...
... persons answering their circular letters of inqui which has been before reported to Congress , that I deem no furth reference to that subject necessary in my report . The codification by the commission of nearly three thousand acts ...
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Page 289 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Page 532 - ... it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent; upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 475 - Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1873. 8. Washington, 1874. Statement of the Public Debt of the United States, July 1, 1874.
Page 68 - An act to punish and prevent the practice of polygamy in the Territories of the United States and other places, and disapproving and annulling certain acts of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah...
Page 296 - To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age...
Page 534 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 87 - Columbia, and shall be punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion...
Page 446 - That any settler who has settled, or who shall hereafter settle, on any of the public lands of the United States, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, with the intention of claiming the same under the homestead laws, shall be allowed the same time to file his homestead application and perfect his original entry in the United States Land Office as is now allowed to settlers under the preemption laws...
Page 294 - An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to deposit certain funds in the United States Treasury in lieu of investment...
Page 70 - The jurisdiction of the several courts herein provided for, both appellate and original, and that of the Probate Courts and of justices of the peace, shall be as limited by law.