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 MattersA. L. Bancroft, 1884 - 523 pages |
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... Secretary of the Interior . § 20 . The Land Department . $ 21 . Pre - emption and Sale . § 22. Patents to Individuals . § 23 . Indemnity to States . 24. Recorder and Secretary . § 25. Effect of Listing to States . § 26. Duties of the ...
... Secretary of the Interior . § 20 . The Land Department . $ 21 . Pre - emption and Sale . § 22. Patents to Individuals . § 23 . Indemnity to States . 24. Recorder and Secretary . § 25. Effect of Listing to States . § 26. Duties of the ...
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... Secretary of Navy to Ascertain what Reserved Lands not Required for Naval Purposes . § 267. Lands not Required , to be Certified to Secretary of Interior , and thereafter to be Subject to Entry and Sale . Preference Right of Purchase ...
... Secretary of Navy to Ascertain what Reserved Lands not Required for Naval Purposes . § 267. Lands not Required , to be Certified to Secretary of Interior , and thereafter to be Subject to Entry and Sale . Preference Right of Purchase ...
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... Secretary of Interior . § 303 . $ 304 . Where Size of Lots or Town Plat Varies from General Rule . Title to Lots Subject to Mineral Rights . § 305 . Entry of Town Authorities in Trust for Occupants . § 306. Entry under Preceding Section ...
... Secretary of Interior . § 303 . $ 304 . Where Size of Lots or Town Plat Varies from General Rule . Title to Lots Subject to Mineral Rights . § 305 . Entry of Town Authorities in Trust for Occupants . § 306. Entry under Preceding Section ...
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... Secretary Final as to Swamp Lands . § 387. State Selections in California . § 388a . Lakes - Navigable Waters of United States . § 389. Lakes not Navigable . § 390. Unauthorized Certification . § 391. Act of July 23 , 1866 . § 392. Act ...
... Secretary Final as to Swamp Lands . § 387. State Selections in California . § 388a . Lakes - Navigable Waters of United States . § 389. Lakes not Navigable . § 390. Unauthorized Certification . § 391. Act of July 23 , 1866 . § 392. Act ...
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... Secretary Teller , Copp's Land Office , December , 1882 . Lindsey v . Howes , 2 Black , 554 .. Little v . State of Arkansas , 22 How . 193 .. 26 , 47 133 338 59 , 83 59 Lyon v . Woodman , Legal Gazette , 81 .. 419 Mahony v . Van Winkle ...
... Secretary Teller , Copp's Land Office , December , 1882 . Lindsey v . Howes , 2 Black , 554 .. Little v . State of Arkansas , 22 How . 193 .. 26 , 47 133 338 59 , 83 59 Lyon v . Woodman , Legal Gazette , 81 .. 419 Mahony v . Van Winkle ...
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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...