Digest of Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volumes 41-51U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - Natural resources |
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acres act of April act of August act of February act of June act of March additional entry affidavit Alaska allotment amended application April 28 August 24 authority canceled Circular claimant coal land contest December 29 deposits desert-land entry enlarged homestead act entitled February 25 filing final proof gas prospecting permit grant homestead entry homestead entryman homestead law INDIAN LANDS Indian Reservation Instructions of April Instructions of July Interior irrigation issuance July 17 June 11 June 25 Land Department land embraced land laws Land Office leasing act March 26 ment mining claim mining laws national forest nonmineral Northern Pacific Railway notice oil and gas original entry payment placer mining preference right prior provisions public lands purchase pursuant railroad reclamation relinquishment repayment residence Revised Statutes rule SCHOOL LANDS Secretary September 22 settler Stat stead entry subsequent survey thereof thereunder timber and stone tion tract United withdrawal
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Page 178 - ... upon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as If no location of the same had ever been made...
Page 168 - Germany, the war with Spain, or in the suppression of the insurrection in the Philippines, and who have been honorably separated or discharged therefrom or placed in the Regular Army or Navy...
Page 140 - The coal deposits in such lands shall be subject to disposal by the United States in accordance with the provisions of the coal-land laws in force at the time of such disposal.
Page 205 - Charlestown as her home within the meaning of that term as it is used in the law of domicile; and the evidence on which the defendants rely all tends to strengthen this conclusion. Notwithstanding Mrs. Paris...
Page 135 - That in all construction work eight hours shall constitute a day's work, and no Mongolian labor shall be employed thereon. SEC. 5. That the entryman upon lands to be irrigated by such works shall, in addition to compliance with the homestead laws, reclaim at least one-half of the total irrigable area of his entry for agricultural purposes...
Page 304 - States for municipal or mining purposes, and for the purposes of the milling and reduction of ores, during the period of their beneficial use, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and subject to the laws of the State or Territory in which said reserves are respectively situated.
Page 39 - That after the lapse of two years from the date of the issuance of the receiver's receipt upon the final entry of any tract of land under the homestead, timber-culture, desertland, or pre-emption laws, or under this act, and when there shall be no pending contest or protest against the validity of such entry, the entryman shall be entitled to a patent conveying the land by him entered, and the same shall be...
Page 190 - 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 88 - Stat. 1098; 43 USC 1165), regardless of whether or not the manager's final certificate has issued. (b) The Supreme Court of the United States in Payne v. US ex rel. Newton (255 US 438, 65 L. ed. 720) , decided that Newton was entitled to a patent on his homestead entry under the proviso to section 7 of the act of March 3, 1891...
Page 86 - Congress intended that the only effect that a classification of land as within the known geologic structure of a producing oil and gas field...