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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... faith and that there was no valid objection to allowing the entryman to make the supple- mental affidavit before the proper officers curing the defect . In the case of Way v . Matz ( 6 L. D. , 257 ) the Department held that " An entry ...
... faith and that there was no valid objection to allowing the entryman to make the supple- mental affidavit before the proper officers curing the defect . In the case of Way v . Matz ( 6 L. D. , 257 ) the Department held that " An entry ...
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... faith upon lands not occupied by the settlement or improvement of any other person , and prior to the date of certification of said lands to the State of Cali- fornia by the Department of the Interior : And provided further , That the ...
... faith upon lands not occupied by the settlement or improvement of any other person , and prior to the date of certification of said lands to the State of Cali- fornia by the Department of the Interior : And provided further , That the ...
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... faith of the parties in interest . The local officers should transmit said supplementary proof together with their opinion thereon , and upon receipt of the same , your office will readjudicate the case . The decision of your office is ...
... faith of the parties in interest . The local officers should transmit said supplementary proof together with their opinion thereon , and upon receipt of the same , your office will readjudicate the case . The decision of your office is ...
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... faith , believing that his acts constituted a compli- ance with the law ; and the record fails to convince me that he did not do so . I am , therefore , unwilling to cancel his entry on the present record . But I think the proof ...
... faith , believing that his acts constituted a compli- ance with the law ; and the record fails to convince me that he did not do so . I am , therefore , unwilling to cancel his entry on the present record . But I think the proof ...
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... faith , as they buy only an equity subject to the action of the Land De- partment , either in confirming or canceling these entries . Purchasers from persons holding final certificates purchase with notice that the Land Department has ...
... faith , as they buy only an equity subject to the action of the Land De- partment , either in confirming or canceling these entries . Purchasers from persons holding final certificates purchase with notice that the Land Department has ...
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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 timber culture entry 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...