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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... the necessity of making their original homestead entries as heretofore required by the law and regulations in order to protect their settlement rights . CLIMATIC HINDRANCES . The proviso annexed to section 2297 , 18 TITLE TO PUBLIC LANDS .
... the necessity of making their original homestead entries as heretofore required by the law and regulations in order to protect their settlement rights . CLIMATIC HINDRANCES . The proviso annexed to section 2297 , 18 TITLE TO PUBLIC LANDS .
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... original relinquishment of the claimants . ( Form 4-545 , p . 283. ) As implied by the requirement of the oath , a soldier will be held to have exhausted his homestead right by the filing of his declaratory statement ; it being manifest ...
... original relinquishment of the claimants . ( Form 4-545 , p . 283. ) As implied by the requirement of the oath , a soldier will be held to have exhausted his homestead right by the filing of his declaratory statement ; it being manifest ...
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... original entry has been made , will be the same as is now required in making homestead proof , except the compliance with the law need be shown only to the date of the fire , and , in addition , proof will be required as to the date of ...
... original entry has been made , will be the same as is now required in making homestead proof , except the compliance with the law need be shown only to the date of the fire , and , in addition , proof will be required as to the date of ...
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... original entry , if such application is not made within three months of the date of the settlement , to file affidavits explaining why such entry had not been made sooner . Section 3 provides for cases in which the forest fires only ...
... original entry , if such application is not made within three months of the date of the settlement , to file affidavits explaining why such entry had not been made sooner . Section 3 provides for cases in which the forest fires only ...
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... original homestead entry . It must also be stated in the application that the same is made under the second section of the act of June 15 , 1880 . Final homestead proof not being required in these cases , no adver- tisement or notice of ...
... original homestead entry . It must also be stated in the application that the same is made under the second section of the act of June 15 , 1880 . Final homestead proof not being required in these cases , no adver- tisement or notice of ...
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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...