Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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... acres on said tract in a workmanlike manner , and that during the fourth year after entry he failed to culti- vate the first five acres planted to seeds and also failed to plant to trees seeds or cuttings the second five acres broken ...
... acres on said tract in a workmanlike manner , and that during the fourth year after entry he failed to culti- vate the first five acres planted to seeds and also failed to plant to trees seeds or cuttings the second five acres broken ...
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... acres , which he did not cultivate ; that the land was valuable only as pasture land and was used for that purpose by Jones and his father and brother ; that Jones never cooked or ate upon the land but boarded at his father's house on ...
... acres , which he did not cultivate ; that the land was valuable only as pasture land and was used for that purpose by Jones and his father and brother ; that Jones never cooked or ate upon the land but boarded at his father's house on ...
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... acres of clearing , valued at from $ 25.00 to $ 30.00 . The local officers rejected the proof , because it ap ... acre tract is more than half swamp and therefore subject to the grant . If it was intended to be held by your office that ...
... acres of clearing , valued at from $ 25.00 to $ 30.00 . The local officers rejected the proof , because it ap ... acre tract is more than half swamp and therefore subject to the grant . If it was intended to be held by your office that ...
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... acres more were broken . In 1881 he had five acres of trees planted and the re- mainder of the plowed land sowed to wheat . That in the spring of 1883 he contracted with one Lackner to culti- vate said tract and to plant to tree seeds ...
... acres more were broken . In 1881 he had five acres of trees planted and the re- mainder of the plowed land sowed to wheat . That in the spring of 1883 he contracted with one Lackner to culti- vate said tract and to plant to tree seeds ...
Page 58
... acres planted and removed the same to his own timber culture claim . That in the spring of 1884 , he wrote to said agent and directed him to have said ten acres replanted after properly preparing the ground . That said agent sent him an ...
... acres planted and removed the same to his own timber culture claim . That in the spring of 1884 , he wrote to said agent and directed him to have said ten acres replanted after properly preparing the ground . That said agent sent him an ...
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Page 641 - 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...
Page 475 - That no certificate shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry ; and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry ; or, if he be dead, his widow ; or, in case of her death, his heirs or devisee...
Page 535 - On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
Page 286 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 172 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Page 647 - State, and whenever, on the line thereof the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption, or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office...
Page 103 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 225 - Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given with a view merely to the proper, orderly, and prompt conduct of the business, and by a failure to obey which the rights of those interested will not be prejudiced, are not commonly to be regarded as mandatory...
Page 195 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 369 - The shores of navigable waters and the soils under them were not granted by the Constitution to the United States, but were reserved to the States respectively. Second. The new States have the same rights, sovereignty, and jurisdiction over this subject as the original States.