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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... original school sections were actually in place , and the State was not entitled to indemnity on their account : and 3. Cases where the State was not entitled to indemnity , because there never had been such a section sixteen or thirty ...
... original school sections were actually in place , and the State was not entitled to indemnity on their account : and 3. Cases where the State was not entitled to indemnity , because there never had been such a section sixteen or thirty ...
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... original act , and rebuts any in- terpretation of the resolution which would diminish or curtail them . Among those privileges was the right of the company to select lieu lands for those that had been disposed of by the United States at ...
... original act , and rebuts any in- terpretation of the resolution which would diminish or curtail them . Among those privileges was the right of the company to select lieu lands for those that had been disposed of by the United States at ...
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... original act , had been dis- posed of by the government , and would restrict the right of selection for lands lost to the particular State or Territory in which the lands lost were located . The company would thus be deprived of a part ...
... original act , had been dis- posed of by the government , and would restrict the right of selection for lands lost to the particular State or Territory in which the lands lost were located . The company would thus be deprived of a part ...
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... original act of 1864 , had it been the intent of Congress to limit the selection to the State or Ter- ritory in which the lands were lost . In the absence of any such words , I do not feel authorized to interpolate them as an additional ...
... original act of 1864 , had it been the intent of Congress to limit the selection to the State or Ter- ritory in which the lands were lost . In the absence of any such words , I do not feel authorized to interpolate them as an additional ...
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... original act for the completion of the road . . The completion of the road within the time fixed by the new act perfected the title of the company under the original grant , and this title inured , at once , to the benefit of Larmore ...
... original act for the completion of the road . . The completion of the road within the time fixed by the new act perfected the title of the company under the original grant , and this title inured , at once , to the benefit of Larmore ...
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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...