Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 37U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - Public lands |
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30 Stat acres act of February act of June act of March affidavit alleged allowed appeal approved April assignment Assistant Secretary Pierce August August 31 authority cancellation claimant Commissioner Congress contest court desert land desert-land entry entered entitled entryman fact February 26 filed final proof grant held hereby homestead entry homestead laws indemnity Indian Interior irrigation issued JAMES RUDOLPH GARFIELD July June 27 land department land district Land Office lots March 26 ment mineral nonmineral Northern Pacific Northern Pacific Railroad Northern Pacific Railway notice office decision overruled Pacific R. R. patent payment person placer placer mining preference right prior public lands purchase purpose question railway company receipt reclamation record register and receiver regulations rejected relinquishment residence Revised Statutes Roy McDonald scrip selection serial number settlement South Dakota supra thereof thereto timber and stone tion township tract United
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Page 777 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 304 - 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...
Page 460 - That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 292 - ... that he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he might acquire from the Government of the United States should inure, in whole or in part, to the benefit of any person except himself...
Page 292 - ... to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become such...
Page 284 - Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States...
Page 749 - Upon the failure of any one of several coowners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the coowners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent coowner personal notice in writing, or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or...
Page 747 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventytwo, render such limitation necessary.
Page 741 - States, as placer mining claims, the annual assessment labor upon such claims may be done upon any one of a group of claims lying contiguous and owned by the same person or corporation, not exceeding five claims in all: Provided, That said labor will tend to the development or to determine the oil-bearing character of such contiguous claims.
Page 215 - And every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States to whom allotments shall have been made under the provisions of this act, or under any law or treaty, and every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States...