Circular from the General Land Office: Showing the Manner of Proceeding to Obtain Title to Public Lands Under the Homestead, Desert Land, and Other Laws. Issued July 11, 1899U.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 - 328 pages |
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... District of Alaska . In Ohio , Indiana , and Illinois only a few isolated tracts of public land remain . In these States and Territories , with the exception of the three last mentioned , there are land districts with defined boundaries ...
... District of Alaska . In Ohio , Indiana , and Illinois only a few isolated tracts of public land remain . In these States and Territories , with the exception of the three last mentioned , there are land districts with defined boundaries ...
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... district land office having jurisdiction over the tract an affidavit made by himself and duly corroborated by two witnesses , setting forth the character of the land ; stating whether it is covered with timber or contains stone or any ...
... district land office having jurisdiction over the tract an affidavit made by himself and duly corroborated by two witnesses , setting forth the character of the land ; stating whether it is covered with timber or contains stone or any ...
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... district in which the land described is situated , describing the tract and giving its area ( see Form 4-001 , p ... district land office or through the agency of this office ( sec . 2437 , Rev. Stat .; Appendix No. 1 , p . 160 ) . If ...
... district in which the land described is situated , describing the tract and giving its area ( see Form 4-001 , p ... district land office or through the agency of this office ( sec . 2437 , Rev. Stat .; Appendix No. 1 , p . 160 ) . If ...
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... district office , it must be accompanied by a tender of the fees to which the register and receiver are entitled and by a written application to locate , containing a description of the tracts desired , and signed by the locator or his ...
... district office , it must be accompanied by a tender of the fees to which the register and receiver are entitled and by a written application to locate , containing a description of the tracts desired , and signed by the locator or his ...
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... district land office testimony , to consist of his own affi- davit , corroborated , so far as possible , executed before the register or receiver , or some officer authorized under the acts of May 26 , 1890 , and March 2 , 1895 , to ...
... district land office testimony , to consist of his own affi- davit , corroborated , so far as possible , executed before the register or receiver , or some officer authorized under the acts of May 26 , 1890 , and March 2 , 1895 , to ...
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26 Stat act of Congress act of March additional entry affidavit aforesaid amended America in Congress Appendix application assigns August 30 benefit bona fide bona fide purchasers cents per acre certificate claimant Commissioner commutation Congress assembled contest cultivation declaration deposit desert-land district land office District of Alaska dollars eighteen hundred enter entitled An act February 18 fees filed final proof grant Greer County hereafter hereby heretofore homestead entry homestead laws improvements Indians Interior issued June 14 land embraced legal subdivisions ment mineral Muscogee or Creek nonmineral Northern Pacific Railroad notice oath occupied original entry party patent person plat preemption laws prescribed prior public lands purposes railroad company register and receiver register or receiver residence Revised Statutes Secretary Senate and House settlement survey Territory Territory of Dakota thereof thereto timber timber-culture tion township tract of land United wagon road
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Page 45 - ... he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he might acquire from the government of the United States should inure, in whole or in part, to the benefit of any person except himself...
Page 167 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 163 - Every person who, 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 154 - No certificate, however, shall be given, or patent issued therefor, until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry; and if at the expiration of such time, or at any time 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...
Page 282 - States, or given aid and comfort to its enemies, and that such application is made for his or her exclusive use and benefit, and that said entry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not, either directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever...
Page 228 - That the President of the United States may from time to time set apart and reserve in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof.
Page 116 - If the same be upon surveyed lands, and, if 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 156 - ... his widow, if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, then his minor orphan children, by a guardian duly appointed and officially accredited at the Department of the Interior, shall be entitled to all the benefits enumerated in this act...
Page 182 - AN ACT making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes.
Page 89 - ... pending contest or protest against the validity of such entry, the entryman shall be entitled to a patent conveying the land by him entered, and the same shall be issued to him...