Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 19U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 |
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... appeal , alleging error both as to the facts and the law . The character of the land in controversy has been once before decided by the Department in a controversy between the same parties , and it was decided against the mineral ...
... appeal , alleging error both as to the facts and the law . The character of the land in controversy has been once before decided by the Department in a controversy between the same parties , and it was decided against the mineral ...
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... appealed on November 17 , 1893 , from your said office decision . The right of appeal being denied on the ground that the same was not filed within the time prescribed by Rules 81 and 86 of Practice , Collier invoked the exercise of the ...
... appealed on November 17 , 1893 , from your said office decision . The right of appeal being denied on the ground that the same was not filed within the time prescribed by Rules 81 and 86 of Practice , Collier invoked the exercise of the ...
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... appeal from the same filed by Lemmons . This appeal is now before the Department . The application of Williams being defective when filed , should have been rejected by the local office , and the entry of Lemmons intervening defeated ...
... appeal from the same filed by Lemmons . This appeal is now before the Department . The application of Williams being defective when filed , should have been rejected by the local office , and the entry of Lemmons intervening defeated ...
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... appeal , your office decision sustained that of the local office . An appeal brings the case before this Department . This township was surveyed in 1875 , and the field notes upon the section lines show the land to be level , soil first ...
... appeal , your office decision sustained that of the local office . An appeal brings the case before this Department . This township was surveyed in 1875 , and the field notes upon the section lines show the land to be level , soil first ...
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... appeal . The case is brought to the Department upon an appeal from said decision , in which the grounds of error are specified as follows : First . There was error in said decision in holding that the price of the land involved in said ...
... appeal . The case is brought to the Department upon an appeal from said decision , in which the grounds of error are specified as follows : First . There was error in said decision in holding that the price of the land involved in said ...
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26 Stat acres act of June act of March affidavit of contest affirmed Alexander Hanson alleged allowed appeal approved April April 16 April 22 attorney August cancellation cash entry certificate claimant Commissioner December declaratory statement definite location Department departmental decision entitled entryman evidence fact February February 23 filed final proof grant hearing held homestead entry homestead law indemnity Indian Interior issued July July 20 June 22 land district Land Office March 23 ment mineral motion for review Navajo river Northern Pacific R. R. Northern Pacific Railroad notice October J. I. H. office decision Pacific Railroad Company parties patent person plat pre-emption preference right prior protest public lands purchase record register and receiver rejected relinquishment reservation residence road rule scrip Secretary Smith selection September September 29 settlement settlement laws settlers supra survey testimony thereof tion townsite tract United witnesses
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Page 52 - The President speaks and acts through the heads of the several departments in relation to subjects which appertain to their respective duties.
Page 373 - Except as otherwise provided by law all balances of appropriations contained in the annual appropriation bills and made specifically for the service of any fiscal year, and remaining unexpended at the expiration of such fiscal year, shall only be applied to the payment of expenses properly incurred during that year, or to the fulfillment of contracts properly made within that year ; and balances not needed for such purposes shall be carried to the surplus fund.
Page 386 - That the right of way through the public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted to said company for the construction of said railroad and telegraph line...
Page 273 - ... intention to become such citizens, as a part of its grant, lands not conveyed to or for the use of such company, said lands being the numbered sections prescribed in the grant and being coterminous with the constructed parts of said road, and where the lands so sold are for any reason excepted from the operation of the grant to said company, it shall be lawful for the bona fide purchaser thereof from said company to make payment to the United States for said lands at the ordinary Government price...
Page 21 - States nearest to the tiers of sections above specified, so much land in alternate sections, or parts of sections, as shall be equal to such lands as the United States have sold, or otherwise appropriated, or to which the rights of pre-emption have attached as aforesaid...
Page 57 - No party to any action, suit or proceeding, 'nor any person interested in the event thereof, nor any person from, through or under whom any such party or interested person derives any interest or title by assignment or otherwise...
Page 586 - And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, without awaiting the extension of the public surveys, to ascertain and determine, by protraction or otherwise, the number of townships that will be included within such Indian, military, or other reservations, and thereupon the State or Territory shall be entitled to select indemnity lands to the extent of two sections for each of said townships in...
Page 324 - ... the condition of the Indians residing in said Territory, what lands, if any, should be reserved for their use, what provision shall be made for their education what rights by occupation of settlers should be recognized, and all other facts that may be necessary to enable Congress to determine what limitations or conditions should be imposed when the land laws of the United States shall be extended to said district...
Page 457 - 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 412 - Now, Know ye, That the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration of the premises, and in conformity, with the several Acts of Congress in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by these presents DO GIVE AND GRANT, unto the said Conrad B. Pack, and to his heirs, the said Tract above described...