The American Settler's Guide: A Popular Exposition of the Public Land System on the United States of America |
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... the tracts or a portion thereof embraced in the patent . Formerly , when the duplicate was duly assigned by the THE AMERICAN SETTLER'S GUIDE . Minimum and Double Minimum Lands What will Pay for Lands a Cash Purchases.
... the tracts or a portion thereof embraced in the patent . Formerly , when the duplicate was duly assigned by the THE AMERICAN SETTLER'S GUIDE . Minimum and Double Minimum Lands What will Pay for Lands a Cash Purchases.
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... thereof are to be marked the numbers of its township and range ; and to make such marks yet more conspicuous in manner aforesaid , a streak of red chalk is to be applied . Opposite is represented a corner mound common to two townships ...
... thereof are to be marked the numbers of its township and range ; and to make such marks yet more conspicuous in manner aforesaid , a streak of red chalk is to be applied . Opposite is represented a corner mound common to two townships ...
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... thereof , will have six notches on each of the west , north , QUARTER SECTION CORNER STONE . SECTION CORNER . MOUNDS . and east sides or edges ; and where such stones or posts are set for corners to two townships south of the base or ...
... thereof , will have six notches on each of the west , north , QUARTER SECTION CORNER STONE . SECTION CORNER . MOUNDS . and east sides or edges ; and where such stones or posts are set for corners to two townships south of the base or ...
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... thereof as other public lands are . The township to be surveyed must be within the range of the regular progress of the public surveys embraced by existing standard lines . Where parties do not use the certificates of deposits in ...
... thereof as other public lands are . The township to be surveyed must be within the range of the regular progress of the public surveys embraced by existing standard lines . Where parties do not use the certificates of deposits in ...
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... thereof , and the distances between corners set down in the field - notes constitute proper data from which to determine the true locality of a missing corner ; hence the rule that all such should be restored at distances proportionate ...
... thereof , and the distances between corners set down in the field - notes constitute proper data from which to determine the true locality of a missing corner ; hence the rule that all such should be restored at distances proportionate ...
Common terms and phrases
act of June act of March additional entry affidavit allowed application canceled certificate certificate of deposit citizen complied contest Copp's Public Land court court of record crop date of entry declaration declaratory statement desert land enter expiration fees and commissions final proof heirs homestead act homestead claimant homestead entry homestead laws hundred and sixty improvements issued J. J. Thomas June 14 Land Commissioner land embraced Land Owner legal subdivisions March 13 mineral mound NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD notice oath OFFICE AT Date original entry patent person planted pre-emption filing pre-emption law pre-emption right pre-emptor preference right prior private entry proof and payment Public Land Laws purchase quarter-section Ques RAILROAD COMPANY Register and Receiver relinquishment Revised Statutes Scrip section corners sixty acres soldier subject to entry survey sworn testimony thereof timber culture entry timber culture laws township tract of land trees United widow witnesses
Popular passages
Page 110 - Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered...
Page 72 - Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify.
Page 81 - 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 82 - 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 108 - An act to provide for the sale of desert lands in certain States and Territories...
Page 104 - ... with regard thereto; that there is not, to his knowledge, within the limits thereof, any vein or lode of quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver...
Page 82 - States or given aid and comfort to its enemies, and that such application is made for his or her exclusive use and benefit, and that said entry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not either directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person...
Page 27 - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Page 109 - ... that no portion of said land is claimed for mining purposes under the local customs or rules of miners or otherwise; that no portion of said land is worked for mineral during any part of the year by any person or persons; that said land is essentially non-mineral land...
Page 37 - Statutes, may be made before the judge, or, in his absence, before the clerk, of any court of record of the county and State, or district and Territory, in which the lands are situated...