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... contract to sell , or in any manner encumber the right or interest which he has acquired , than a homestead or pre - emption settler has under either the homestead or pre - emption laws before final proof , still , as there seems to be ...
... contract to sell , or in any manner encumber the right or interest which he has acquired , than a homestead or pre - emption settler has under either the homestead or pre - emption laws before final proof , still , as there seems to be ...
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... contract system . 3. The appointment of a sur- veyor - general of the United States , who shall be authorized to appoint as many assistants as may be required to make the surveys as fast as may be deemed necessary or provided by law ...
... contract system . 3. The appointment of a sur- veyor - general of the United States , who shall be authorized to appoint as many assistants as may be required to make the surveys as fast as may be deemed necessary or provided by law ...
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... contract system . The practical result of the legislation increasing the number of sur- veyors general has not been such as to commend it to the country , and I am clearly of the opinion that the whole system should now be changed . I ...
... contract system . The practical result of the legislation increasing the number of sur- veyors general has not been such as to commend it to the country , and I am clearly of the opinion that the whole system should now be changed . I ...
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... contract , which , in my opinion , is a sufficient reason for saying that the surveys would be made in a more satisfactory manner . There can be no reasonable doubt that surveys made in this manner would cost less than by the present ...
... contract , which , in my opinion , is a sufficient reason for saying that the surveys would be made in a more satisfactory manner . There can be no reasonable doubt that surveys made in this manner would cost less than by the present ...
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... contract surgeon in the Army during the war was neither officer nor soldier , but a civilian , and he is not entitled to the benefits of the soldier's homestead laws .- ( Secretary's letter of May 27 , 1876 , case of George W. Benton ...
... contract surgeon in the Army during the war was neither officer nor soldier , but a civilian , and he is not entitled to the benefits of the soldier's homestead laws .- ( Secretary's letter of May 27 , 1876 , case of George W. Benton ...
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Page 109 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, render such limitation necessary.
Page 144 - ... the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Page 128 - That where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and shall show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse claim...
Page 121 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 114 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Page 111 - ... a patent shall issue thereon for the claim, or such portion thereof as the applicant shall appear, from the decision of the court, to rightly possess.
Page 115 - ... of penalties or forfeitures, embraced in said revision and covered by said repeal, shall not be affected thereby, but all suits, proceedings or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising, or acts done or committed prior to said repeal, may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time as if said repeal had not been made.
Page 86 - ... within two years thereafter, the person making such entry ; or if he be dead, his widow ; or in case of her death, his heirs or devisee ; or in case of a widow making such entry, her heirs or devisee, in case of her death, proves by two credible witnesses that he, she, or they have resided upon or cultivated the same for the term of five years immediately succeeding the time of filing the affidavit...
Page 636 - ... set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians herein named, and for such other friendly tribes or individual Indians as from time to time they may be willing, with the consent of the United States, to admit...
Page 110 - May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year. On all claims located prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten dollars...