Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 31U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 |
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... evidence of contestant and his witnesses does not establish a state of facts sufficient to justify the cancellation of the entry in controversy . Fourth : That the evidence of contestant does not support and sustain the allegations of ...
... evidence of contestant and his witnesses does not establish a state of facts sufficient to justify the cancellation of the entry in controversy . Fourth : That the evidence of contestant does not support and sustain the allegations of ...
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... evidence of such expenditure , he is protected against contests . In other words , even if he is in default as to actual compliance with the requirements of the statute , yet so long as he is willing to falsely testify that he is not in ...
... evidence of such expenditure , he is protected against contests . In other words , even if he is in default as to actual compliance with the requirements of the statute , yet so long as he is willing to falsely testify that he is not in ...
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... evidence of water rights , etc. , and , when the applicant is a corporation , the articles of incorporation and proofs of organization , must be pre- pared and filed in accordance with the then existing regulations , under the general ...
... evidence of water rights , etc. , and , when the applicant is a corporation , the articles of incorporation and proofs of organization , must be pre- pared and filed in accordance with the then existing regulations , under the general ...
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... evidence of their organization and in the survey and location of their respective lines of road within the Indian Territory , have complied with all the require- ments of the regulations prescribed by the Department under the act of ...
... evidence of their organization and in the survey and location of their respective lines of road within the Indian Territory , have complied with all the require- ments of the regulations prescribed by the Department under the act of ...
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... evidence of the extent and character of his cultivation and other improvements from which it could be determined whether he has continued to com- ply with the law in that respect or not . It appears that it was not necessary for him to ...
... evidence of the extent and character of his cultivation and other improvements from which it could be determined whether he has continued to com- ply with the law in that respect or not . It appears that it was not necessary for him to ...
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26 Stat 31 Stat act of Congress act of June act of March affidavit alleged allotments amended appeal application for patent approved Arroyo Hondo assignment August August 18 August 23 authority BINGER HERMANN canceled ceded certificate claimant Comanche Commissioner contest desert land disposal entitled entryman February February 18 filed forest reservation grant held hereby homestead entry homestead law indemnity Indian Interior issued January July July 26 June 13 June 21 Kiowa land department land district land embraced Land Office lieu lode March 22 ment mining claim mining laws non-mineral Northern Pacific R. R. Northern Pacific Railroad notice October 29 office decision opened to settlement overruled payment plat prior protest provisions public lands purchase purposes question record regulations rejected relinquishment Revised Statutes rule Secretary Hitchcock selection settlers sixty acres supra survey surveyor-general Territory territory of Hawaii therein thereof thereto timber tion township tract United
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Page 423 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 455 - ... 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, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Page 474 - ... 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 455 - The miners of each mining district may make regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or with the laws of the State or Territory in which the district is situated, governing the location, manner of recording...
Page 465 - That in all patents for lands hereafter taken up under any of the land laws of the United States or on entries or claims validated by this act, west of the one hundredth meridian it shall be expressed that there is reserved from the lands in said patent described a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States.
Page 468 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows and to furnish a continuous supply of timber...
Page 453 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent...
Page 454 - Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the -right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface...
Page 421 - reclamation fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands...
Page 454 - ... failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel.