The Northern Pacific Land Grants: Hearings Before the Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grants ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 |
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... mineral lands - Instructions , etc ----- 1723 ᏢᎪᎡᎢ 4 Woodward , W. M. H. , mineral examiner , United States Forest Service : Statement of .. 1755 , 1782 , 1807 Mineral classification act , excerpts from ... McElroy , C. A. , mineral ...
... mineral lands - Instructions , etc ----- 1723 ᏢᎪᎡᎢ 4 Woodward , W. M. H. , mineral examiner , United States Forest Service : Statement of .. 1755 , 1782 , 1807 Mineral classification act , excerpts from ... McElroy , C. A. , mineral ...
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... mineral . This land was turned back to the United States and the railroad acquired mineral indemnity rights therefor , which were applied in part on more valuable lands in the indemnity limits . " 6. That under a rule of law laid down ...
... mineral . This land was turned back to the United States and the railroad acquired mineral indemnity rights therefor , which were applied in part on more valuable lands in the indemnity limits . " 6. That under a rule of law laid down ...
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... mineral losses sustained within the primary limits . The act of July 2 , 1864 , excluded mineral lands from the operation of the act , allowing indemnity therefor from odd - numbered , unoccupied , and unappropriated nonmineral lands ...
... mineral losses sustained within the primary limits . The act of July 2 , 1864 , excluded mineral lands from the operation of the act , allowing indemnity therefor from odd - numbered , unoccupied , and unappropriated nonmineral lands ...
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... mineral losses , and the statement should indicate that this mineral loss can not be satisfied under the law within the second indemnity limits . Approximately 1,000,000 acres will be saved to the national forests if the Northern ...
... mineral losses , and the statement should indicate that this mineral loss can not be satisfied under the law within the second indemnity limits . Approximately 1,000,000 acres will be saved to the national forests if the Northern ...
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... mineral or non- mineral character of the land within the grant in the land districts named . The object of the act was good , but the manner in which classifications were made under the act , with the resulting benefit to the Northern ...
... mineral or non- mineral character of the land within the grant in the land districts named . The object of the act was good , but the manner in which classifications were made under the act , with the resulting benefit to the Northern ...
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ABERNETHY acreage acres act of July Acting Forester bonds branch line BRITTON BUNN Cascade Mountains CHAIRMAN claim Columbia River Commissioner committee completed construction Crow Indian Reservation decision decree definite location disposed DONNELLY entitled erroneously fact filed foreclosure forfeiture Government indemnity selections Indian Reservation Indian title Interior Department joint resolution KERR Lake Superior Land Office lands hereby granted legislation main line map of definite matter McGowAN miles Minnesota Missouri River Montana mortgage Mount Rainier national forest nonmineral Northern Pacific grant Northern Pacific land Northern Pacific Railroad Northern Pacific Railway Oregon Pacific land grant Pacific Railroad Company patents Portland preemption primary limits provision public lands Puget Sound question railway company received reference resolution of 1870 road route second indemnity belt second indemnity limits Secretary settlers SHERMAN sold Stat Supreme Court survey Tacoma thereof tion treaty United unsurveyed WILLIAMS Wisconsin withdrawals
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Page 117 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 41 - 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 619 - ... affixed by order of the board of directors of said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by like order.
Page 390 - Any of the district courts of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on may, in case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any...
Page 174 - ... and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections or parts of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers or preempted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond the limits of said alternate sections: ProOpinion of the Court.
Page xii - And in case of disobedience to a subpoena the Commission, or any party to a proceeding before the Commission, may invoke the aid of any court of the United States in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and documents under the provisions of this section.
Page 352 - Company," its successors and assigns, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad and telegraph line to the Pacific coast, and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores over the route of said line of railway...
Page 59 - Office ; and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections, or parts of sections, shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers, or preempted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond the limits of said alternate sections...
Page 60 - That the President of the United States shall cause the lands to be surveyed for forty miles in width on both sides of the entire line of said road, after the general route shall be fixed, and as fast as may be required by the construction of said railroad...
Page 33 - And all such lands so granted by this section, which shall not be sold or disposed of by said company within three years after the entire road shall have been completed, shall be subject to settlement and preemption, like other lands, at a price not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to be paid to said company.