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... survey of , letter from Secretary of War transmitting survey of .. Chief of Bureau of Statistics , annual report of , on the commerce and navigation of the United States .. China , expatriation and slavery in .. Chinese , immigration of ...
... survey of , letter from Secretary of War transmitting survey of .. Chief of Bureau of Statistics , annual report of , on the commerce and navigation of the United States .. China , expatriation and slavery in .. Chinese , immigration of ...
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... survey of . Harbor at Petersburg , Va .. Harbor at Rock Island , Ill ... .. ............... FERRAR 21 41 12 18 21 28 21 32 12 20 21 37 FERRED ៩៩៩៩ 24 87 24 21 5258 70 51 38 24 24 * 42 2 2 HARANA 24 22 21 2 89 88 87588 72 83 46 2 38 ...
... survey of . Harbor at Petersburg , Va .. Harbor at Rock Island , Ill ... .. ............... FERRAR 21 41 12 18 21 28 21 32 12 20 21 37 FERRED ៩៩៩៩ 24 87 24 21 5258 70 51 38 24 24 * 42 2 2 HARANA 24 22 21 2 89 88 87588 72 83 46 2 38 ...
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... survey of .... Mobile Harbor , survey of ....... Money refunded on customs duties for the year ended June 30 , 1879 ; statement of the Secretary of the Treasury .. Monitors , double - turreted .. N. ........ Nantucket Harbor , letter ...
... survey of .... Mobile Harbor , survey of ....... Money refunded on customs duties for the year ended June 30 , 1879 ; statement of the Secretary of the Treasury .. Monitors , double - turreted .. N. ........ Nantucket Harbor , letter ...
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... surveys ; survey of Calumet Lake ; survey of Cherokee lands in North Carolina ; resurvey of the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation ; Old Cherokee Indian Reservation ; survey and subdivision of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Reserves in Dakota ...
... surveys ; survey of Calumet Lake ; survey of Cherokee lands in North Carolina ; resurvey of the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation ; Old Cherokee Indian Reservation ; survey and subdivision of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Reserves in Dakota ...
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... survey of Chattahoochee , Etowah , and Duck Rivers . Letter from , relative to Nantucket Harbor Letter from ... survey of Mobile Harbor , Alabama ...... Letter from , transmitting a report on the improvement of the Wisconsin River 24 24 ...
... survey of Chattahoochee , Etowah , and Duck Rivers . Letter from , relative to Nantucket Harbor Letter from ... survey of Mobile Harbor , Alabama ...... Letter from , transmitting a report on the improvement of the Wisconsin River 24 24 ...
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Page lxxxiii - ... 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 lxviii - Indian tribe, but shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities to taxation of other citizens of the United States.
Page lxviii - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page xlvii - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the waters of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page lxxxiii - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page lxiii - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits...
Page lxxi - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this Act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page lviii - And the boundary lines which have not been actually run and marked shall be ascertained by running straight lines from the established corners to the opposite corresponding corners; but in those portions of the fractional townships where no such opposite corresponding corners have been or can be fixed, the...
Page lxv - ... infant child or children; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the State in which such...
Page lxvi - February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and every seaman, marine, and officer who has served in the Navy of the United States...