The Existing Laws of the United States of a General and Permanent Character, and Relating to the Survey and Disposition of the Public Domain, December 1, 1880U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 - 192 pages |
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... proofs and affida- vits required in such cases may be made before some officer competent to administer oaths , whose official character shall be duly certified by the clerk of a court of record ; and moneys received by the Commissioner ...
... proofs and affida- vits required in such cases may be made before some officer competent to administer oaths , whose official character shall be duly certified by the clerk of a court of record ; and moneys received by the Commissioner ...
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... proof and payment must be made to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office . 17 Stat . 10 ; R. S. 2287. 4 Op . Att . Gen. 223 ; 7 id . 647 . SEC . 41. The Commissioner of the General Land Office vey and publica ...
... proof and payment must be made to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office . 17 Stat . 10 ; R. S. 2287. 4 Op . Att . Gen. 223 ; 7 id . 647 . SEC . 41. The Commissioner of the General Land Office vey and publica ...
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... proof , al- low indemnity to the several States for swamp and over- flowed lands granted to them by the act of September twenty - eighth , eighteen hundred and fifty , and sold by the United States prior to March third , eighteen ...
... proof , al- low indemnity to the several States for swamp and over- flowed lands granted to them by the act of September twenty - eighth , eighteen hundred and fifty , and sold by the United States prior to March third , eighteen ...
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... proof thereof , together with any objections properly filed and all evidence submitted either in support of or in opposition to the approval of any such survey , shall also be transmitted to said Commissioner . 2 Stat . 326 , 352 ; 3 id ...
... proof thereof , together with any objections properly filed and all evidence submitted either in support of or in opposition to the approval of any such survey , shall also be transmitted to said Commissioner . 2 Stat . 326 , 352 ; 3 id ...
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... charged or received illegal fees ; and , on satisfactory proof that either of such officers has charged or received fees or Compensation of registers and other rewards not authorized by law LAND DISTRICTS AND OFFICERS . 59.
... charged or received illegal fees ; and , on satisfactory proof that either of such officers has charged or received fees or Compensation of registers and other rewards not authorized by law LAND DISTRICTS AND OFFICERS . 59.
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12 Stat 9 id 9 Stat affidavit April April 15 April 20 authorized base line cents per acre certificate claimant Commissioner common to townships Copp's L. O. Copp's Mg corner common correction line Decisions Sec district is bounded eighteen hundred entitled fifth principal meridian filed grant guide meridian hundred and sixty Interior intersection issued July July 17 July 20 June June 26 Land district includes Land Office Lester's L. L. line between ranges line between townships March March 21 Oregon Otto patent person place of beginning plat preceding section proof public lands purchase railroad range line register and receiver River scrip Secretary Sept settlers sixth principal meridian sixty acres standard parallel south surveyor-general surveys ten east Territory thence east thence south thence west thereof timber tion town United vein or lode western boundary
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Page 134 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 143 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface...
Page 80 - 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 145 - ... 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.
Page 146 - The location must be distinctly marked on the ground, so that its boundaries can be readily traced. All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. 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...
Page 152 - ... an application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession of the vein or lode claim...
Page 97 - ... that he does not apply to purchase the same on speculation, but in good faith to appropriate it to his own exclusive use and benefit; and 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 151 - placers," including all forms of deposit, excepting veins of quartz, or other rock in place, shall be subject to entry and patent, under like circumstances and conditions, and upon similar proceedings, as are provided for vein or lode claims; but where the lands have been previously surveyed by the United States, the entry in its exterior limits shall conform to the legal subdivisions of the public lands.
Page 82 - ... that he, she, or they have resided upon or cultivated the same for the term of five years immediately succeeding the time of filing the affidavit...
Page 134 - Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States...