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11 north A. M. Jones acres act of Congress agency agent agricultural Amador County amount appropriation approved bands boundary BRUNOT Calaveras County California chief claims clerks commission council Creek Crow tribe Crows Department deposits district Dorado east El Dorado County ending June 30 exterior farming fiscal year ending Gold Placer Gold Quartz Government grant hundred incidental expenses Indian Affairs Iowa John July June 17 June 30 Kansas labor Land-Office located lode March mark meridian miles mill-site mineral mines Missouri Modocs mountains Nevada Nevada County Ouray Pacific pensions Placer County plats portion public lands Railroad range 11 respectfully River salary Seminoles Sept settlers Sioux Siskiyou County standard parallel Stat subdivision surveyor-general Tabequache Territory tion Total townships 13 treaty tribe Trinity County United Utah Utes Valley Washington Washington Territory widows William William Minto
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Page 487 - ... set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians herein named, and for such other friendly tribes or individual Indians as from time to time they may be willing, with the consent of the United States, to admit amongst them...
Page 487 - States, to admit amongst them; and the United States now solemnly agrees that no persons except those herein designated and authorized so to do, and except such officers, agents, and employes of the government as may be authorized to enter upon Indian reservations in discharge of duties enjoined by law, shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon, or reside in the territory described in this article...
Page 22 - An act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes...
Page 34 - ... and pay for the lands filed upon within one year from, the time prescribed for filing their respective claims; and upon failure to file the proper notice, or to pay for the land within the required period, the same shall be subject to entry by any other qualified applicant.
Page 102 - In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
Page 16 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 18 - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Page 225 - AN ACT To enable the State of Arkansas, and other States, to reclaim the Swamp Lands within their limits.
Page 16 - An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States...
Page 34 - ... of the United States not otherwise appropriated or reserved by competent authority not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to such individual person, or three hundred and twenty acres to such association, upon payment to the receiver of not less than ten dollars per acre for such lands where the same shall be situated more than fifteen miles from any completed railroad, and not less than twenty dollars per acre for such lands as shall be within fifteen miles of such road.