To Provide for an Adjustment with the State of Washington to Satisfy the Grants Made to Said State in Accordance with Its Enabling Act. Hearings Before the Subcommittee ... on H.R. 6694 ... June 28,29, July 1,2,7, 19371937 - 99 pages |
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25 Stat 640.00 Indian reservation Act approved February act of February agreement Agriculture answer appraisal approved February 22 approximately average value base lands believe bill board feet C. V. SAVIDGE Cascade Range cash Chairman committee common schools Congress CRAWFORD cruiser Deficiency Department Donation claim enabling act entitled exchange areas Federal Government figure filed forest reserve Forest Service Grazing GREEVER HILL Homestead entry included Indian allotments Interior land commissioner land exchange land grants Land Office lands equivalent thereto LEAVY lieu land selections lost Loup Loup MARKHUS Mineral entries mountainous Olympic National Forest PETERSON of Florida public domain public domain land public lands quantity grants question record referred representative right to select Rough satisfy the grants school land school sections sections 16 select lands selection areas Senator SCHWELLENBACH settlement SMITH statement survey TEIGAN timber tion township United WASHINGTON TO SATISFY Willamette meridian
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Page 67 - The Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to enforce and carry into execution, by appropriate regulations, every part of the provisions of this title not otherwise specially provided for.
Page 4 - That upon the admission of each of said states into the Union, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of said proposed states, and where such sections, or any parts thereof, have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of Congress...
Page 68 - ... section had been disposed of, the State was to be compensated by other lands equal in quantity, and as near as may be in quality. By this means the State was fully indemnified, the settlers ran no risk of losing the labor of years, and Congress was left free to legislate touching the national domain in any way it saw fit, to promote the public interests.
Page 68 - A grant operating at once and attaching prior to the surveys by the United States would deprive Congress of the power of disposing of any part of the lands in Nevada until they were segregated from those granted.
Page 7 - ... thereof, have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of congress, other lands equivalent thereto, in legal subdivisions of not less than one quarter section, and as contiguous as may be to the section in lieu of which the same is taken, are hereby granted to said states for the support of common schools...
Page 54 - That the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections embraced in permanent reservations for national purposes shall not, at any time, be subject to the grants nor to the indemnity provisions of this act, nor shall any lands embraced in Indian, military, or other reservations of any character be subject to the grants or to the indemnity provisions of this act, until the reservation shall have been extinguished and such lands be restored to and become a part of the public domain.
Page 4 - ... that the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections embraced in permanent reservations for national purposes shall not at any time be subject to the grants nor to the indemnity provisions of this act, nor shall any lands embraced in Indian, military or other reservations of any character be subject to the grants or to the indemnity provisions of this act...
Page 68 - Congress reserved absolute power over them; and if in exercising it the whole or any part of a 16th or 36th section had been disposed of, the State was to be compensated by other lands equal in quantity, and as near as may be in quality.
Page 65 - And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, without awaiting the extension of the public.
Page 64 - And other lands of equal acreage are also hereby appropriated and granted, and may be selected by said State or Territory where sections sixteen or thirty-six are mineral land, or are included within any Indian, military, or other reservation, or are otherwise disposed of by the United States...