United States Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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Act Numbered agricultural Albay Ambos Camarines amount application archipelago authorized Baguio Batangas Benguet building Bureau of Forestry bureau of health Bureau of Public bureau of science Capiz Cebu cent certificate charge Chief city of Manila claim constabulary construction cost Court of Land cultivation disease district division expenses filed Filipino forest products hectares homestead hospital hundred Ilocos Ilocos Norte Iloilo improvements increase June 30 kilometers Land Registration large number lease lepers Leyte license located Luzon meters Mindoro months Moro municipal native Negros Negros Occidental obtained operation Pampanga patent persons pesos Philippine Commission Philippine Islands plant ports present province public forests Public Land Act purchase purposes quarantine register of deeds road Romblon Samar sanitary Secretary seed station supply survey Tarlac thereof timber tion Total number tract trees United vaccination vessels wood Zamboanga
Popular passages
Page 481 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 506 - 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 464 - Office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 482 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 464 - If it appears from the decision of the court that several parties are entitled to separate and different portions of the claim, each party may pay for his portion of the claim, with the proper fees, and file the certificate and description by the...
Page 470 - States, or given aid and comfort to its enemies, and that such application is made for his or her exclusive use and benefit, and that said entry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not either directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person...
Page 509 - 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 463 - Upon the failure of any one of several co-owners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the co-owners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent co-owner personal notice in writing, or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days...
Page 505 - ... shall be required to prove their respective rights and pay for the lands filed upon within one year from the time prescribed for filing their respective claims; and upon failure to file the proper notice, or to pay for the land within the required period, the same shall be subject to entry by any other qualified applicant.
Page 460 - Provided: That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.