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... port of Brevet Brigadier General J. J. Dana 3 1 304 Papers accompanying the same . Report in relation to cemeteries during the fiscal year .. 3 1 326 Schedule of actual or contracted or estimated cost of the various items connected with ...
... port of Brevet Brigadier General J. J. Dana 3 1 304 Papers accompanying the same . Report in relation to cemeteries during the fiscal year .. 3 1 326 Schedule of actual or contracted or estimated cost of the various items connected with ...
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... port , informing him of the fact . Since that time I have learned the following : Surratt came here about the Sth , dressed in the uniform of the Papal zouaves , having no passport , but stating that he was an Englishman who had just ...
... port , informing him of the fact . Since that time I have learned the following : Surratt came here about the Sth , dressed in the uniform of the Papal zouaves , having no passport , but stating that he was an Englishman who had just ...
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... port on the previous night in the steamer Tripoli for Malta . The consul also stated that he was dressed in the uniform of a zouave of the Roman states , and passing either by the names of Walters or Watson , and directing me to arrest ...
... port on the previous night in the steamer Tripoli for Malta . The consul also stated that he was dressed in the uniform of a zouave of the Roman states , and passing either by the names of Walters or Watson , and directing me to arrest ...
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... port , from Naples , on the 19th instant ; and I am directed by the officer admininistering the government to acquaint you , in answer , that no person answering your description having been found on that vessel , no arrest could ...
... port , from Naples , on the 19th instant ; and I am directed by the officer admininistering the government to acquaint you , in answer , that no person answering your description having been found on that vessel , no arrest could ...
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... port and Alexandria was broken down , so that no message can now be sent . But I at once sent a telegram to the consul general in Egypt , via Constantinople , which I am told will reach him in two days , and at least twenty - four hours ...
... port and Alexandria was broken down , so that no message can now be sent . But I at once sent a telegram to the consul general in Egypt , via Constantinople , which I am told will reach him in two days , and at least twenty - four hours ...
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Page 137 - ... survey and sale, there have been homesteads made by citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, which homesteads have been made, improved, and used for agricultural...
Page 221 - 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 7 - States, for the payment of which, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each of us, our heirs, successors, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Page 222 - If no adverse claim shall have been filed with the Register and the Receiver of the proper Land Office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, 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...
Page 223 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected In the same, and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Page 223 - ... possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes aforesaid is hereby acknowledged and confirmed.
Page 296 - Indians here also being friendly, I consider it the most safe point for me to remain, until such time as I can cross the mountains with my horses, having lost a great many in attempting to cross ten or fifteen days since. I am a long ways from home, and am anxious to get there as soon as the nature of the case will admit. Our situation is quite unpleasant, being destitute of clothing and most of the necessaries of life, wild meat being our principal subsistence. # I am, reverend father, your strange,...
Page 138 - Homesteads." SEC. 2342. Upon the survey of the lands described in the preceding section, the Secretary of the Interior may designate and set apart such portions of the same as are clearly agricultural lands, which lands shall thereafter be subject to pre-emption and sale as other public lands, and be subject to all the laws and regulations applicable to the same.
Page 265 - Nevada and California Processes of Silver and Gold Extraction, for general use,* and especially for the mining public of California and Nevada, with full explanations .and directions for all metallurgical operations connected with silver and gold, from a preliminary examination of the ore to the final casting of the ingot; also a description of the general metallurgy of silver ores. By Guido Kustel> mining engineer and metallurgist, former manager of the Ophir works, &c.
Page 223 - States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, which homesteads have been made, improved, and used for agricultural purposes, and upon which there have been no valuable mines of gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper discovered, and which are properly agricultural lands, the...