Circular from the General Land OfficeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - 26 pages |
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80 rods accompanying field notes acres act extending act of Congress additional homestead rights adverse claim affidavit application to purchase approved May 14 association British Columbia canyon chief engineer collect toll Congress approved construction corporation definite location District of Alaska Dominion of Canada eighteen hundred eighty rods entitled An act entry extending the homestead filed FORM freight and passengers hereby granted highway homestead laws incorporation Interior January 21 junction grounds land district land office lands in Alaska laws and providing least sixty days line of route map and field map of definite native-born citizens navigable waters Northwest Territory Notary Public paragraph payment person prescribed President privileges proof proposed right Provided further providing for right public lands public travel purposes quiet title railroad railroad company regulations road or tramway SEAL OF COMPANY Secre shore line surveyor-general terminal thereafter thereof timber tion uncompleted section United wagon road wharves
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Page 6 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 6 - ... the passage of such railroad through any canyon, pass, or defile, said railroad company shall before entering upon the ground occupied by such wagon road, cause the same to be reconstructed at its own expense in the most favorable location, and in as perfect a manner as the original road: Provided, That such expenses shall be equitably divided between any number of railroad companies occupying and using the same canyon, pass, or defile.
Page 10 - The maps should show any other road crossed, or with which connection is made, and whenever possible the station number on the survey thereof at the point of intersection. All such intersecting roads must be represented in Ink of a different color from that used for the line for which applicant asks right-of-way.
Page 5 - ... which shall have filed with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent of one hundred feet on each side of the central line of said road; also the right to take, from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road, material, earth, stone, and timber necessary for the construction of said railroad...
Page 7 - ... proposed road, and that the expense of making the same available and convenient for public travel will not be less, on an average, than $500 per mile. In all cases, if the proposed line of road shall be located over any road or trail in common use for public travel, a satisfactory statement, corroborated by...
Page 19 - The Secretary of the Interior may permit, under regulations to be prescribed by him, the use of timber and stone found upon such reservations, free of charge, by bona fide settlers, miners, residents, and prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and other domestic purposes, as may be needed by such persons for such purposes...
Page 8 - ... the same shall be noted upon the plats in said office ; and thereafter all such lands over which such right of way shall pass shall be disposed of subject to such right of way : Provided, That if any section of said road...
Page 6 - ... 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 6 - ... 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...
Page 14 - United States a space of eighty rods in width between tracts sold or entered under the provisions of this Act on lands abutting on any navigable stream, inlet, gulf, bay, or seashore, and that the Secretary of the Interior may grant the use of such reserved lands abutting on the water front to any citizen or association of citizens, or to any corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States...