Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1896 |
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28 Stat acres amount received therefrom Applications to purchase approved area of appropriated business transacted cash under section classes of entries Colorado commissions of regis commuted to cash contract County depositing public moneys district land office ending June 30 entries and amount entries and locations Excess payments Executive order Expense of depositing fees field notes Final entries Final homestead entries fiscal year ending Homestead entries commuted Idaho Incidental expenses Indian Reservation June 30 land district land office lines lode meridian military reservations mineral lands Montana Mountainous Oregon original entries Original homestead entries Pacific patent payments on homestead plats preemption private land claims received for reducing reducing testimony Revised Statutes Roseburg Salaries Sales of land scrip showing area South Dakota statement stone lands surveyor-general testimony to writing timber timber and stone Total cash sales Total vacant land township tract tricts Utah vacant public land Willamette meridian Wyoming
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Page 74 - That in cases in which a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim or by a patent is included within the limits of a public forest reservation, the settler or owner thereof may, if he desires to do so, relinquish the tract to the Government, and may select in lieu thereof a tract of vacant land open to settlement not exceeding in area the tract covered by his claim or patent...
Page 232 - Provided, That, if any section of said canal or ditch shall not be completed within five years after the location of said section, the...
Page 237 - ... contemplated irrigation and which plan shall be sufficient to thoroughly irrigate and reclaim said land and prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural crops and shall also show the source of the water to be used for irrigation and reclamation...
Page 103 - The Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to enforce and carry into execution, by appropriate regulations, every part of the provisions of this title not otherwise specially provided for.
Page 236 - ... when an ample supply of water is actually furnished in a substantial ditch or canal, or by artesian wells or reservoirs, to reclaim a particular tract or tracts of such lands, then patents shall issue for the same to such state without regard to settlement or cultivation...
Page 210 - That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the act approved February...
Page 240 - ... who are citizens of the United States or who have declared their intention to become such...
Page 232 - ... upon unsurveyed lands, within twelve months after the survey thereof by the United States, file with the register of the land office for the district where such land is located a profile of its road...
Page 232 - ... and upon 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 right of way...
Page 241 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the use of rights of way through the public lands, forest and other reservations of the United States...