Digest of Decisions of the Department of the Interior and General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands: Also Tables of Cases Reported and Overruled; Statutes Cited and Construed; Circulars; and Rules of Practice Cited and Construed, Volumes 1-22U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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11 Stat 26 Stat absence act of June act of March action adverse claim affidavit alleged allowed amended appeal application authority California cancellation Central Pacific R. R. certificate Circular Commissioner confirmed contest decision definite location entitled entryman failure faith February February 28 filed final proof GENERALLY-Continued heirs homestead entry issue July July 23 June 15 June 22 land covered thereby Land Department land embraced Land Office limits Lode Manitoba Rwy ment mineral Minneapolis and Manitoba Northern Pacific R. R. notice Oregon Pacific R. R. Co party patent Paul pending placer preëmption preemption law preëmptor preferred right prior private claim proceedings protected public land railroad grant record relinquishment reservation residence Revised Statutes right of purchase road Rule Rule 55 Section September 29 settlement laws settler Sioux City statutory period sub-title submitted subsequent survey thereof thereto timber timber-culture entry tion tract transferee VOLUME withdrawal
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Page 310 - 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...
Page 690 - ... shall be included in said list and plats; but when the greater part of a sub-division is not of that character, the whole of it shall be excluded therefrom.
Page 669 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Page 307 - Where minerals have been found and the evidence is of such a character that a person of ordinary prudence would be justified in the further expenditure of his labor and means, with a reasonable prospect of success, in developing a valuable mine, the requirements of the statute have been met.
Page 218 - ... shall inure to the benefit of said infant child or children; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the State...
Page 489 - That any and all lands heretofore reserved to the United States by any act of Congress, or in any other manner by competent authority, for the purpose of aiding in any object of internal improvement, or for any other purpose whatsoever, be and the same are hereby reserved to the United States from the operation of this act...
Page 132 - Sec. 8. That the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, and the amendments thereto, shall apply to and be in force in the State of Colorado, as well as the States named in the original act; and no person shall be entitled to make entry of desert land except he be a resident citizen of the State or Territory in which the land sought to be entered is located.
Page 185 - Clerk of any Court of Record of the County and State, or District and Territory, in which the lands are situated...
Page 87 - ... hundred and ninety-one, it is proved, after due notice to the settler, to the satisfaction of the register of the land office, that the person having filed such affidavit has actually changed his residence, or abandoned the land for more than six months at any time, then and in that event the land so entered shall revert to the Government...
Page 462 - September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, granting pre-emption rights, and the acts amendatory thereof, and of the act entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...