Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 38U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
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34 Stat acquired acres Act approved act of June act of March affidavit alleged allowed appeal application April April 28 assignment Assistant Secretary Pierce August August 18 authority canceled certificate claim claimant coal Commissioner contest corners court cultivation declaratory statement desert land embraced entered entitled entryman February 19 fee simple filed final proof grant heirs held hereby homestead entry homestead law Indian Interior irrigation issued July June 17 land department land district Land Office lode lots March 26 ment mineral mining nonmineral Northern Pacific Northern Pacific Railroad Northern Pacific Railway notice November 12 office decision overruled patent payment person placer placer mining plat preference right prior public lands purchase purpose Railroad Company reclamation record register and receiver regulations relinquishment reservation reservoir residence Revised Statutes rule selection settlement South Dakota supra survey surveyor thereof timber tion township townsite tract United
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Page 620 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 638 - That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 560 - That upon the completion of said allotments and the patenting of the lands to said allottees, each and every member of the respective bands or tribes of Indians to whom allotments have been made shall have the benefit of and be subject to the laws, both civil and criminal, of the state or territory in which they may reside...
Page 110 - ... that he is a citizen of the United States, or has declared his intention to become such...
Page 140 - ... and he shall also post such notice in his office for the same period. The claimant at the time of filing this application, or at any time thereafter, within the sixty days of publication, shall file with the register a certificate of the United States surveyor-general that five hundred dollars...
Page 305 - ... approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior the same shall be noted upon the plats in said office, and thereafter all such lands over which such rights of way shall pass shall be disposed of subject to such right of way.
Page 622 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 65 - And any mineral lands in any forest reservation which have been or which may be shown to be such, and subject to entry under the existing mining laws of the United States and the rules and regulations applying thereto, shall continue to be subject to such location and entry, notwithstanding any provisions herein contained.
Page 620 - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming...
Page 623 - That it is hereby declared to be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the provisions of this act, so far as the same may be practicable and subject to the existence of feasible irrigation projects, to expend the major portion of the funds arising from the sale of public lands within each State and Territory hereinbefore named for the benefit of arid and semiarid lands within the limits of such State or Territory...