Alaska Veterans' Homesteading Act of 1947. Hearings on H.R. 868, H.R. 1548, H.R. 4059, and H.R. 40601947 - 260 pages |
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AAMODT acreage acres Alaska Highway Alaska Railroad ALASKA VETERANS amendments American BARRETT believe Big Delta bill boat BRANNAMAN Chairman committee print Congress COOTE CRAWFORD D. C. DEAR D'EWART Department of Agriculture E. L. BARTLETT ENGLE entry Fairbanks favor feel final proof fish FLOYD Forest Service fur farming give go to Alaska Government GRANGER grazing HANNAH HEDRICK HEINTZLEMAN Highway Homestead Act homestead laws industry Interior islands Juneau Ketchikan Land Management living loans logs Matanuska Matanuska Valley ment miles MURDOCK national forest North Dakota operate opportunity patent PEDEN PRATT present proper settlement assistant public lands pulp purposes question reserves residence Richardson Highway ROCKWELL SCOTT Secretary settle settlers southeastern Alaska spruce statement suitable survey Territory of Alaska thing timber claims timberland tion tracts trees United Valley WAGNER Washington William Lemke
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Page 185 - In case we do not reach you, if there is no objection on the part of the committee we will schedule you for 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, if that is satisfactory.
Page 10 - ... shall be deducted from the required length of residence, without reference to the time of actual service.
Page 243 - Restriction. upon the same terms and with the same restrictions as the original allotment, and lands described in any such canceled allotment shall be disposed of as other ceded lands of such reservation. This provision shall not apply to the lands formerly comprising Indian Territory. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules and regulations to carry this law into effect.
Page 85 - Service, and the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering of the Department of Agriculture.
Page 260 - If not, all those in favor of the motion will signify by saying "aye.
Page 12 - September 16, 1940, and prior to the termination of the present war and who shall have been discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable after active service of ninety days or more, or by reason of an injury or disability incurred in service in line of duty, shall be eligible for the benefits of this title. Any...
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Page 148 - Our New England ancestors brought hither no great capitals from Europe; and if they had, there was nothing productive in which they could have been invested. They left behind them the whole feudal policy of the other continent. . . . They came to a new country.
Page 217 - HR 1549, a bill to provide for the settlement of certain parts of Alaska by war veterans.
Page 148 - They came to a new country. There were as yet no lands yielding rent, and no tenants rendering service. The whole soil was unreclaimed from barbarism. They were themselves either from their original condition, or from the necessity of their common interest, Dearly on a level in respect to property.