Public Land Statutes of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 424 pages |
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... Additional homestead entries . 5 9 10 10 18 20 21 26 27 36 37 37 38 39 42 44 48 56 58 60 61 69 73 106 Coal lands , entries on ... . 87 Commutation ... 115 Contests ... 109 Dispossessed occupants . 118 Enlarged homesteads ... 82 Forest ...
... Additional homestead entries . 5 9 10 10 18 20 21 26 27 36 37 37 38 39 42 44 48 56 58 60 61 69 73 106 Coal lands , entries on ... . 87 Commutation ... 115 Contests ... 109 Dispossessed occupants . 118 Enlarged homesteads ... 82 Forest ...
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... additional homesteads .. State grants and selections .... Swamp lands .. Surveys and surveyors - general . Timber .. Timber and stone lands . Town sites ... Unlawful occupancy of public lands . Withdrawal of lands from disposition ...
... additional homesteads .. State grants and selections .... Swamp lands .. Surveys and surveyors - general . Timber .. Timber and stone lands . Town sites ... Unlawful occupancy of public lands . Withdrawal of lands from disposition ...
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... additional homestead - Shores of navigable waters- Settlers - 320 acres allowed , surveyed or unsurveyed - Mineral and coal lands - Transfer for church , cemetery , etc. , purposes .. LAND DISTRICTS . - Act of May 14 , 1898 ( 30 Stat ...
... additional homestead - Shores of navigable waters- Settlers - 320 acres allowed , surveyed or unsurveyed - Mineral and coal lands - Transfer for church , cemetery , etc. , purposes .. LAND DISTRICTS . - Act of May 14 , 1898 ( 30 Stat ...
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... additional sum or sums they may claim as justly due upon such purchase . Restriction . Preference right to purchase prod- Navy . the President . Litigation . Unlawful trust forbidden . Forfeiture . Patents . SEC . 3. That if any of the ...
... additional sum or sums they may claim as justly due upon such purchase . Restriction . Preference right to purchase prod- Navy . the President . Litigation . Unlawful trust forbidden . Forfeiture . Patents . SEC . 3. That if any of the ...
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... additional lands contiguous to those embraced in the original lease , but i no event shall the total area embraced in such original and new leases exceed in the aggregate two thousand five hundred and sixty acres . 1 That upon ...
... additional lands contiguous to those embraced in the original lease , but i no event shall the total area embraced in such original and new leases exceed in the aggregate two thousand five hundred and sixty acres . 1 That upon ...
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36 Stat act entitled act of Congress act of June Act of March agricultural allotment America in Congress application appropriation act Central Pacific Railroad certificate claim claimant coal Commissioner Congress assembled construction deposits desert-land disposed district of Alaska dollars eighteen hundred enacted entitled An act entryman February 18 fees filed forest reserves hereafter heretofore homestead entry homestead laws House of Representatives hundred and sixty Indian appropriation act Interior irrigation issued June 25 Land Office lands granted lease lieu limits ment mineral lands nineteen hundred nonmineral Northern Pacific Railroad paid patent payment person plat preemption preemption laws prescribed prior provided further public lands purchase purposes railroad and telegraph reclamation fund register and receiver reservoir residence Revised Statutes road Secretary selected Senate and House settlement settlers sixty acres sold South Dakota survey surveyor-general Territory thereof thereto timber tion town-site township tract United
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Page 185 - 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 178 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 259 - An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain states and territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands...
Page 70 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 114 - Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify. declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury...
Page 126 - Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the state or territory where such land is located...
Page 341 - That upon the admission of each of said states into the Union, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of said proposed states, and where such sections, or any parts thereof, have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of congress...
Page 92 - ... on payment of ten dollars, he or she shall thereupon be permitted to enter the quantity of land specified : Provided, however, That no certificate shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry ; and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry ; or, if he be dead, his widow ; or, in case of her death, his heirs or devisee...
Page 296 - States, which shall have filed with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent of one hundred feet on each side of the central line of said road...
Page 296 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.