Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 42The Department, 1913 |
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... homestead law as modified by the reclamation act , is applicable only to entries under the reclamation act , and can not be invoked as to entries canceled prior to the reclamation act or made before and afterwards canceled for fraud ...
... homestead law as modified by the reclamation act , is applicable only to entries under the reclamation act , and can not be invoked as to entries canceled prior to the reclamation act or made before and afterwards canceled for fraud ...
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... homestead law , as provided by the Reclamation Act of June 17 , 1902 , supra . The appeal contends that inasmuch as this land had been entered prior to June 25 , 1910 , it was by act of February 18 , 1911 ( 36 Stat . , 917 ) , made ...
... homestead law , as provided by the Reclamation Act of June 17 , 1902 , supra . The appeal contends that inasmuch as this land had been entered prior to June 25 , 1910 , it was by act of February 18 , 1911 ( 36 Stat . , 917 ) , made ...
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... homestead listed under the act of June 11 , 1906 , which does not exceed 160 acres in area and which may be contained in a square mile the sides of which extend in cardinal directions , will be regarded as within the provisions of said act ...
... homestead listed under the act of June 11 , 1906 , which does not exceed 160 acres in area and which may be contained in a square mile the sides of which extend in cardinal directions , will be regarded as within the provisions of said act ...
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... homestead entry . — All unappropriated surveyed public lands adaptable to any agricultural use are subject to ... LAW ORIGINATE . 3. Claims under homestead laws may be initiated either by settle- ment on surveyed or unsurveyed lands of ...
... homestead entry . — All unappropriated surveyed public lands adaptable to any agricultural use are subject to ... LAW ORIGINATE . 3. Claims under homestead laws may be initiated either by settle- ment on surveyed or unsurveyed lands of ...
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... homestead law may be obtained by plainly marking the exterior boundaries of all lands claimed , whether surveyed or unsurveyed , followed by the establishment of residence , except as to lands designated under section 6 of said acts ...
... homestead law may be obtained by plainly marking the exterior boundaries of all lands claimed , whether surveyed or unsurveyed , followed by the establishment of residence , except as to lands designated under section 6 of said acts ...
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37 Stat acres act of February act of June act of March additional entry affidavit agricultural allotment amended approved April April 28 assigned Assistant Secretary August 9 authorized canceled certificate charges chief of field claimant coal Commissioner Company Congress contest cultivation entitled entryman farm unit February 19 field division filed final proof heirs held hereby homestead act homestead entry homestead law Indian Interior irrigation issued JONES July June 11 June 25 land district Land Office LAYLIN lode March 26 ment metes and bounds mineral National Forest Nebraska National Forest nineteen hundred nonmineral Northern Pacific Railway overruled Pacific R. R. patent payment person placer mining plat preference right prior public lands purchase purposes reclamation act record register and receiver regulations relinquishment reservation residence Revised Statutes rule selection settlement settler submitted supra survey thereof timber tion township tract unsurveyed water-right application withdrawal
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Page 309 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes, and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines, extended downward vertically...
Page 381 - 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 436 - That where non-mineral land, not contiguous to the vein or lode, is used or occupied by 'the proprietor of such vein or lode for mining or milling purposes, such non-adjacent surface ground may be embraced and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same may be patented therewith, subject to the same preliminary requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable under this act to veins or lodes...
Page 396 - That in all patents for lands hereafter taken up under any of the land laws of the United States or on entries or claims validated by this act, west of the one hundredth meridian it shall be expressed that there is reserved from the lands in said patent described a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States.
Page 236 - Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered...
Page 463 - An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in •certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,' and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 309 - That the locators of all mining locations heretofore made, or which shall hereafter be made, on any mineral vein, lode, or ledge, situated on the public domain, their heirs and assigns, where no adverse claim exists at the passage of this act, so long as they comply with the laws of the United States...
Page 405 - Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been prior to the date hereof embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States land office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law...
Page 414 - Where such person or association, they and their grantors, have held and worked their claims for a period equal to the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State or Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under this chapter, in the absence of any adverse claim...
Page 457 - ... the owners of such tunnel shall have the right of possession of all veins or lodes within 3,000 feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist...