Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 - Public lands |
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... named in the act , and when said limitation was by subsequent acts extended , such exten- sions of time were in the nature of amendments to section 2 of the act of 1804 ; and the effect was to further hold in abeyance section 3 of the ...
... named in the act , and when said limitation was by subsequent acts extended , such exten- sions of time were in the nature of amendments to section 2 of the act of 1804 ; and the effect was to further hold in abeyance section 3 of the ...
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... named the 1st day of Jan- uary , 1852 , as the final limitation of time for the return of surveys and for the operation of the proviso above quoted . After the last - mentioned date , no entries could be made and no surveys could be ...
... named the 1st day of Jan- uary , 1852 , as the final limitation of time for the return of surveys and for the operation of the proviso above quoted . After the last - mentioned date , no entries could be made and no surveys could be ...
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... named therein as patentees , and the title to the land has consequently passed from the jurisdiction of the Executive Department of the government . You insist that the patents have been duly executed ; that they bear on their face by ...
... named therein as patentees , and the title to the land has consequently passed from the jurisdiction of the Executive Department of the government . You insist that the patents have been duly executed ; that they bear on their face by ...
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... named . PRACTICE - SECOND CONTEST . VAN OSTRAND v . LANGE . Where one contest against a homestead entry is pending a second application to con- test will be rejected . Secretary Kirkwood to Commissioner McFarland , November 16 , 1881 ...
... named . PRACTICE - SECOND CONTEST . VAN OSTRAND v . LANGE . Where one contest against a homestead entry is pending a second application to con- test will be rejected . Secretary Kirkwood to Commissioner McFarland , November 16 , 1881 ...
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... named is undivided would be no bar to your making an adjoining farm entry for 120 acres . For particulars relative to the requirements of the statute governing this class of entries , you are referred to the district officers for the ...
... named is undivided would be no bar to your making an adjoining farm entry for 120 acres . For particulars relative to the requirements of the statute governing this class of entries , you are referred to the district officers for the ...
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acres act of June act of March adverse claim affidavit alleging settlement allowed appeal application approved April attorney authority boundaries cancellation Central Pacific Railroad certificate claimant Commissioner McFarland comply confirmed Congress contest corners cultivation December decision declaratory statement decree Department entitled fact February February 23 filed final proof grant held homestead entry homestead laws improvements issue January July June 15 land embraced Land Office letter limits lode March 22 McFarland to register ment mineral mining notice November November 29 October opinion party patent person Pinole plat possession pre-emptor prior public lands purchase Purisima question Rancho record register and receiver relinquishment reservation residence road rule Secretary Teller September September 27 settler sobrante Southern Pacific Railroad Stat subsequent survey surveyor surveyor-general swamp Teller to Commissioner testimony thereof timber timber-culture entry tion township tract United Virginia military district
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Page 558 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations.
Page 663 - 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 541 - ... and pay for the lands filed upon within one year from the time prescribed for filing their respective claims ; and upon failure to file the proper notice, or to pay for the land within the required period, the same shall be subject to entry by any other qualified applicant.
Page 395 - ... but in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said roads are definitely fixed, sold any section or any part thereof granted as aforesaid, or that the right of pre-emption has attached to the same...
Page 561 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location.
Page 42 - ... 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 children...
Page 383 - State, and whenever, on the line thereof, the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption, or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office...
Page 558 - The locators of all mining locations heretofore made or which shall hereafter be made, on any mineral vein, lode or ledge, situated on the public domain, their heirs and assigns, where no adverse claim exists on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, so long as they comply with the laws of the United States...
Page 688 - That the three preceding sections shall be held to authorize only one entry by the same person or association of persons; and no association of persons, any member of which shall have taken the benefit of such sections, either as an individual or as a member of any other association, shall enter or hold any other lands under the provisions thereof...
Page 633 - That when the lands in the said Territory shall be surveyed under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be and the same are hereby reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in said Territory, and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of the same.