Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1890 |
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... land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads , wagon - roads , and canals , and the examination of articles of incorporation and maps of location filed by railroad companies seeking to acquire the right of way ...
... land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads , wagon - roads , and canals , and the examination of articles of incorporation and maps of location filed by railroad companies seeking to acquire the right of way ...
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acres amount received therefrom Applications to purchase approved Black Hills boundary classes of entries Colorado Commissioner commissions of register commuted to cash contracts Dakota ending June 30 entries and amount entries and locations etc.-Continued Excess payments Executive order Expenses of depositing Exteriors fees filings Final homestead entries fiscal year ending grant Homestead entries commuted Idaho Incidental expenses indemnity Indian Reservation irrigation July 11 July 22 June 22 June 30 land district LAND OFFICE land subject Lands entered lines lode meridian miles mineral lands Missouri river Nebraska original entries Original homestead entries patents payments on homestead plats Pre-emption declaratory statements pre-emption entry principal meridian public lands received for reducing reducing testimony register and receiver Revised Statutes Sales of land settlers Sioux South Dakota Subdivisions subject to pre-emption surveyor surveys Territory Territory of Dakota testimony to writing timber-culture laws Total cash sales township tract unsurveyed
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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 126 - Interior may from time to time prescribe, and shall be certified by such agents to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in duplicate, one copy to be retained in the Indian Office and the other to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior for his action, and to be deposited in the General Land Office.
Page 243 - ... that the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections embraced in permanent reservations for national purposes shall not, at any time, be subject to the grants nor to the indemnity provisions of this act, nor shall any lands embraced in Indian, military or other reservations of any character, be subject to the grants or to the indemnity provisions of this act until the reservation shall have been extinguished and such lands be restored to and become a part of the public domain.
Page 127 - Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to secure a just and equal distribution thereof among the Indians residing upon any such reservations; and no other appropriation or grant of water by any riparian proprietor shall be authorized or permitted to the damage of any other riparian proprietor.
Page 62 - And all the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected by such United States surveys for sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigation purposes and all the lands made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals are from this time henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be subject after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement, or occupation until further provided by law...
Page 63 - For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by irrigation, and the segregation of the irrigable lands in such arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and the prevention of floods and overflows...
Page 126 - Indian, or his heirs, as aforesaid, in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever, and patents shall issue according^.
Page 132 - That any Indian receiving and entitled to rations and annuities at either of the agencies mentioned in this act at the time the same shall take effect, but residing upon any portion of said Great Reservation not included in either of the separate reservations herein established, may, at his option, within one year from the time when this act shall take effect, and within one year after he has been notified of...
Page 142 - In case of the death of both father and mother, leaving an infant child or children under twenty-one years of age, the right and fee shall inure to the benefit of such infant child or children; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the State in which such children, for the time being, have their domicile, sell...
Page 78 - No person who shall after the passage of this act, enter upon any of the public lands with a view to occupation, entry or settlement under any of the land laws shall be permitted to acquire title to more than three hundred and twenty acres in the aggregate, under all of said laws, but this limitation shall not operate to curtail the right of any person who has heretofore made entry or settlement on the public lands, or whose occupation, entry or settlement, is validated by this act...