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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... contest was filed . Hearing was concluded April 3 , 1886 , and the local officers decided in favor of contestant . Your office on appeal reversed their decision . The affidavit of contest alleged " that during the third year after entry ...
... contest was filed . Hearing was concluded April 3 , 1886 , and the local officers decided in favor of contestant . Your office on appeal reversed their decision . The affidavit of contest alleged " that during the third year after entry ...
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... contest against timber culture entry , of the NE . † Sec . 34 , T. 13 , R. 5 W. , made December 22 , 1883 , by said Mahan at the Salina , Kansas , land office , on December 22 , 1883 . The record shows that a contest was initiated by ...
... contest against timber culture entry , of the NE . † Sec . 34 , T. 13 , R. 5 W. , made December 22 , 1883 , by said Mahan at the Salina , Kansas , land office , on December 22 , 1883 . The record shows that a contest was initiated by ...
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... CONTEST - ADVERSE POSSESSION . MCWAIN . STONE . A charge of non - compliance with law must fail where it is shown that the alleged failure was due to the illegal and adverse possession of another . First Assistant Secretary Chandler to ...
... CONTEST - ADVERSE POSSESSION . MCWAIN . STONE . A charge of non - compliance with law must fail where it is shown that the alleged failure was due to the illegal and adverse possession of another . First Assistant Secretary Chandler to ...
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... contest against the entry of Clearwaters for thirty days after notice . Williams was notified by registered letter of December 16 , 1887 , in regard to said decision but did not file contest affidavit until March 14 , 1888 , which was ...
... contest against the entry of Clearwaters for thirty days after notice . Williams was notified by registered letter of December 16 , 1887 , in regard to said decision but did not file contest affidavit until March 14 , 1888 , which was ...
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... contest against the entry , filed after residence is thus established will not defeat the right of the entryman to amend his entry by filing a supplemental affidavit . First Assistant Secretary Chandler to the Commissioner of the ...
... contest against the entry , filed after residence is thus established will not defeat the right of the entryman to amend his entry by filing a supplemental affidavit . First Assistant Secretary Chandler to the Commissioner of the ...
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act of June act of March adverse claim affidavit of contest affirmed allowed appeal application April April 18 Assistant Secretary Chandler attorney August August 13 cash entry Central Pacific Railroad certificate claimant Commissioner complied Congress court cultivated December December 29 declaratory statement definite location Department dismissed entryman evidence facts February February 13 filed final proof grant hearing held homestead entry homestead law improvements indemnity Indians January July July 16 June 15 June 22 land district Land Office local officers lode ment motion for review Northern Pacific Railroad notice November occupied October October 13 office decision Pacific R. R. Pacific Railroad Company parties patent plat pre-emptor prior public lands purchase question record register and receiver rejected relinquishment reservation residence Revised Statutes road rule Secretary Noble selection September September 28 settlement laws Stat survey testimony thereof timber culture entry tion United withdrawal witnesses
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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.