A Treatise on the Public Land System of the United States: With References to the Land Laws, Rulings of the Departments at Washington, and Decisions of Courts, and an Appendix of Forms in United States Land and Mining Matters

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A. L. Bancroft, 1884 - 523 pages

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Contents

Control and Disposition of the Public Domain
9
Surveyed and Unsold Lands
10
11 Unsurveyed Lands
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Cost of Public Domain
12
Receipts from Public Domain CHAPTER II
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14 Importance and Functions of General Land Office
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Registers and Receivers
15
Board of Equitable Adjudication
16
Indian Lands and Reservations
17
Rights between States and Settlers
18
The Secretary of the Interior
19
The Land Department
20
Preemption and Sale
21
Patents to Individuals
22
Indemnity to States
23
Recorder and Secretary
24
In California 37 Beds of Navigable Lakes
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CHAPTER V
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CHAPTER VI
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Copper Mining Co 26 Cal 527 333
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Lands Raised to 2 50 per Acre Prior to January 1861 Reduced
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CHAPTER VIII
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ProofWhat and
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Averhill 10 N Y 449 374 375
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CHAPTER IX
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Act of May 14 1880
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United States v Throckmorton 98 U S 61 196 344
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CHAPTER X
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Bona fide Settlers on Above Lands Prior to etc 161 Certain Lands to be Patented to Indians Making Selections 162 Cultivation of Trees on Homestea...
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144 Payment before Expiration of Five Years Rights of Applicant 145 No Distinction on Account of Race or Color etc 146 What Lands Disposed of...
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CHAPTER XI
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CHAPTER XII
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Lands within Railroad Grants Reentered after Abandonment 226 Entries Made after Expiration of Land Grants 227 Where Claimant of Entry Becom...
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Forfeiture and Abandonment
100
Additional Homesteads
102
248 Act of June 14 1878
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Proceedings in Contest 250 Stone and Timber LandsMode of Procedure 251 Notice and Publication
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CHAPTER XIV
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CHAPTER XV
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Rhodes 4 Nev 312
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CHAPTER XVI
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Where Size of Lots or Town Plat Varies from General Rule 304 Title to Lots Subject to Mineral Rights
142
Entry of Town Authorities in Trust for Occupants 306 Entry under Preceding Section when to be Made
143
Soldiers and Sailors Homesteads
147
Deduction of Military and Naval Service from Time
148
Persons Who have Entered Less than 160 Acres Rights
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Act of July 23 1866
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CHAPTER XX
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among States of Union how To be Applied as Legislature may Direct 431 Net Proceeds of Sales of Public Lands Payable at the Treasury Half Yearly...
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CHAPTER XXI
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CHAPTER XXII
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CHAPTER XXIII
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per Acre
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470 Localities to Which the Law Applies
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CHAPTER XXIV
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Refunding in Certain Cases how Done
250
Repayments on Soldiers Void Additional Homestead Locations 479 Purchase Money Fees and Commissions on Erroneous Entries or where Sales ca...
251
Regulations for RepaymentsWarrants on Treasury for Same
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CHAPTER XXV
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CHAPTER XXVI
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Vested Rights to Use of Water for Mining etc Right of Way for Canals
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CHAPTER XXVII
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CHAPTER XXVIII
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CHAPTER XXIX
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RAILROAD GRANTS 517 Grants Prior to 1862
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CHAPTER XXXI
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Entry in Proportion to Number of Inhabitants
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Authorities of Salt Lake City Rights of as to Entry
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Additional Entry Allowed where Town has Entered Less than Max imum
309
Not More than 2560 Acres to be Reserved for Town Site
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CHAPTER XXXIII
330
Van Cotta on Ore Deposits Prims trans p 26
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CHAPTER XXXIV
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CHAPTER XXXV
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CHAPTER XXXVI
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Length of Mining Claims upon Veins or Lodes 638 Proof of Citizenship
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Locators Rights of Possession and Enjoyment 640 Owners of Tunnels Rights
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Only One Entry Allowed 667 Conflicting Claims
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Rights Reserved
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CHAPTER XXXVII
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Vermont Mining Co v Windham Bank 44 Vt 489 379
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Whitman Mining Co v Baker 3 Nev 386
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The Railroad Co 8 Wash Law Rep 489 54
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CHAPTER XXXVIII
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CHAPTER XXXIX
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What Declaration must Show
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Effect of Listing to States 26 Duties of the President and Secretary 27 Public Lands Inclosed
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ResidenceBuilding House I
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Public Lands may be Offered for Sale in Such Proportions as the President Chooses 44 Duration of Sales 45 Several Certificates Issued to Two or M...
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Error in Entry by Mistake of Numbers Proceedings upon 56 Agreement and Acts Intended to Prevent Bids Penalty 57 Agreement to Pay Premiums t...
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Certain Entries within Town Sites Confirmed
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Page 256 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes, and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically...
Page 360 - 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, amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim...
Page 308 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation 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 361 - ... the coowners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent coowner personal notice in writing or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or by publication such delinquent should fail or refuse to contribute his proportion of the expenditure required by this section, his interest in the claim...
Page 361 - ... upon a failure to comply with these conditions, 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 358 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location.
Page 360 - 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 one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
Page 363 - 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...
Page 103 - ... 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 or she 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 358 - May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, whether located by one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle vein at the surface...

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