Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 |
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... actual resident as required by Sec . 2294 , Rev. Stat . , but the Department held that this was merely an irregularity which rendered the entry voidable , but that the entryman would be allowed to file supplemental affidavit of ...
... actual resident as required by Sec . 2294 , Rev. Stat . , but the Department held that this was merely an irregularity which rendered the entry voidable , but that the entryman would be allowed to file supplemental affidavit of ...
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... actual settler claiming the right to enter not exceeding the prescribed legal quan- tity under the homestead or pre - emption laws : Provided , That such settlement was inade in good faith upon lands not occupied by the settlement or ...
... actual settler claiming the right to enter not exceeding the prescribed legal quan- tity under the homestead or pre - emption laws : Provided , That such settlement was inade in good faith upon lands not occupied by the settlement or ...
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... actual residence upon the land . For a month previous to making proof the shanty was uninhabitable , a part of the roof being blown off , the door lying open and the floor entirely covered with snow . About the middle of April it was ...
... actual residence upon the land . For a month previous to making proof the shanty was uninhabitable , a part of the roof being blown off , the door lying open and the floor entirely covered with snow . About the middle of April it was ...
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... actual proof as to the character of the ditch , quantity of water , etc. , owned by the claimant . " But I will go one step fur . ther than my predecessor , and hold that the whole tract for which proof is offered ( unless it be ...
... actual proof as to the character of the ditch , quantity of water , etc. , owned by the claimant . " But I will go one step fur . ther than my predecessor , and hold that the whole tract for which proof is offered ( unless it be ...
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... actual settlement under any existing law of the United States , pro- vided said selections were made in conformity with law ; Therefore a material issue presented in this case is , whether said lands were con- firmed by the act of March ...
... actual settlement under any existing law of the United States , pro- vided said selections were made in conformity with law ; Therefore a material issue presented in this case is , whether said lands were con- firmed by the act of March ...
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acres act of June act of March adverse claim affidavit affirmed alleging settlement allowed approved April April 14 attorney Board of Equitable cash entry claimant Commissioner Stockslager complied considered the appeal contest court cultivation December 15 declaratory statement Department desert land entitled entryman fact faith February February 26 filed final certificate final proof grant hearing held holding for cancellation homestead entry homestead law improvements indemnity issued January January 12 July June 15 June 22 land covered land district Land Office letter local officers lode ment Noble to Commissioner Northern Pacific Railroad notice October October 19 office decision parties patent pre-emption law pre-emptor prior public lands purchase question record register and receiver rejected relinquishment reservation residence road rule scrip Secretary Noble Secretary Vilas selection September September 28 settlement laws settler Stat survey testimony thereof tion township United Vilas to Commissioner
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Page 391 - ... 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 167 - 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...
Page 353 - ... to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become such...
Page 497 - That the Constitution, and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 123 - ... it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 375 - Subject to this provision, an appeal may be taken from the decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 345 - Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by said act of Congress, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, aforesaid, do hereby declare and make known that so much of the lands, as aforesaid, acquired from or conveyed by the Muscogee (or Creek) Nation of Indians and from or by the...
Page 14 - ... every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said company may adopt, through the Territories of the United States...
Page 497 - That when the lands in the said Territory shall be surveyed under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be and the same are hereby reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in said Territory, and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of the same.
Page 266 - Illinois for the construction of a railroad from the southern terminus of the Illinois and Michigan Canal to a point at or near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, with a branch of the same to Chicago, on Lake Michigan, and another via the town of Galena, in said State, to Dubuque, in the state of Iowa...