Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1872 - Public lands |
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... population , producing an increased appropriation of the public lands by private parties . Since then the appreciation of our national securities , the rapid decrease of our public debt , and the relief of the tax - paying part of the ...
... population , producing an increased appropriation of the public lands by private parties . Since then the appreciation of our national securities , the rapid decrease of our public debt , and the relief of the tax - paying part of the ...
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... population is due to the influx of foreigners . The readiness with which they have adapted themselves to the requirements of our democratic civilization is an ample justification of the policy of naturalization . But a feature of the ...
... population is due to the influx of foreigners . The readiness with which they have adapted themselves to the requirements of our democratic civilization is an ample justification of the policy of naturalization . But a feature of the ...
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... population is now seen as an element of untold advantage to the cause of liberty and progress . The very difficulties of colonization compelled the English government to multiply the attractions , especially by liberalizing the land ...
... population is now seen as an element of untold advantage to the cause of liberty and progress . The very difficulties of colonization compelled the English government to multiply the attractions , especially by liberalizing the land ...
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... population many thousands of times greater than the number of savages that can gather a precarious subsistence from its spontaneous production . In other portions of the earth crowded populations await relief by immigration , which ...
... population many thousands of times greater than the number of savages that can gather a precarious subsistence from its spontaneous production . In other portions of the earth crowded populations await relief by immigration , which ...
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... population . The surrounding mountain slopes offer an extensive grazing country , having an abundance of water , grass , and timber . Goose Lake , thirty - five miles long , and from three to eleven wide , al- most equally divided by ...
... population . The surrounding mountain slopes offer an extensive grazing country , having an abundance of water , grass , and timber . Goose Lake , thirty - five miles long , and from three to eleven wide , al- most equally divided by ...
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Page 261 - 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...
Page 260 - States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Page 28 - And until the governor and judges shall adopt laws as hereinafter mentioned, estates in the said territory may be devised or bequeathed by wills in writing, signed and sealed by him or her, in whom the estate may be (being of full age) and attested by three witnesses...
Page 28 - ... part of the personal estate; and this law relative to descents and dower shall remain in full force until altered by the legislature of the district.
Page 278 - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Page 28 - Be. it ordained by the authority aforesaid: That the estates both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said territory dying intestate shall descend to and be distributed among their children and the descendants of a deceased child in equal parts ; the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants then in equal parts to the next of kin in equal degree...
Page 273 - No certificate, however, shall be given or patent issued therefor, until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry; and if at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry ; or if he be dead, his widow ; or in case of her death, his heirs or devisee...
Page 256 - 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 16 - Town unto the three and fortieth degree of Northern Latitude, if the said River doth extend so far Northward. But if the said River shall not extend so far Northward, then by the said River so far as it doth extend, and from the head of the said River the Eastern bounds...
Page 261 - Wherever, upon the lands heretofore designated as mineral lands, which have been excluded from 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...