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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... given by him at the time of registration . Each applicant should , however , in his own behalf , employ such measures as will insure his obtaining prompt and accurate information of the order in which his application for home- stead ...
... given by him at the time of registration . Each applicant should , however , in his own behalf , employ such measures as will insure his obtaining prompt and accurate information of the order in which his application for home- stead ...
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... given hereunder for telegraph and tele- phone purposes shall be subject to the provisions of title sixty - five of the Revised Statutes of the United States , and amendments thereto , regulating rights of way for telegraph companies ...
... given hereunder for telegraph and tele- phone purposes shall be subject to the provisions of title sixty - five of the Revised Statutes of the United States , and amendments thereto , regulating rights of way for telegraph companies ...
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... given in an affidavit by one of them ; if not a native - born citizen , the applicant will be required to file the usual proofs of naturalization . The applicant must also set forth in the affidavit the purposes for which the right of ...
... given in an affidavit by one of them ; if not a native - born citizen , the applicant will be required to file the usual proofs of naturalization . The applicant must also set forth in the affidavit the purposes for which the right of ...
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... given thereunder may be modified or revoked by the Sec- retary or his successor , in his discretion , at any time , and shall not be held to confer any right , easement , or interest in , to , or over any pub- lic land , reservation ...
... given thereunder may be modified or revoked by the Sec- retary or his successor , in his discretion , at any time , and shall not be held to confer any right , easement , or interest in , to , or over any pub- lic land , reservation ...
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... given for the location of , or for the issue of patent to , veins or lodes of mineral , independently of the land in which they are found . Sec- tion 2320 prescribes the maximum length of a vein or lode that may be embraced in a ...
... given for the location of , or for the issue of patent to , veins or lodes of mineral , independently of the land in which they are found . Sec- tion 2320 prescribes the maximum length of a vein or lode that may be embraced in a ...
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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.