Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 12U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 |
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... error to allow the contestant's motion for the additional testimony of Seaman ; also that the evidence did not justify the cancellation of the entry . On the death of the claimant , the widow , at the suggestion of the entryman being ...
... error to allow the contestant's motion for the additional testimony of Seaman ; also that the evidence did not justify the cancellation of the entry . On the death of the claimant , the widow , at the suggestion of the entryman being ...
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... error for the local officers , after the defendant had rested her case , to allow the contest- ant to introduce the witness , Seaman , to prove the residence of the claimant elsewhere than on the homestead in dispute ? I do not think so ...
... error for the local officers , after the defendant had rested her case , to allow the contest- ant to introduce the witness , Seaman , to prove the residence of the claimant elsewhere than on the homestead in dispute ? I do not think so ...
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... error : 1. Wendling's relinquishment of the above entry having been filed during the pen- dency of contest , said relinquishment was prima facie the result of said contest , and it was error not to have awarded the preference right to ...
... error : 1. Wendling's relinquishment of the above entry having been filed during the pen- dency of contest , said relinquishment was prima facie the result of said contest , and it was error not to have awarded the preference right to ...
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... error assigned is too general to present any question for determination . See Rule of Practice SS . I discover no error in the decision appealed from and it is accordingly , affirmed . INDEMNITY WITHDRAWAL - APPLICATION TO ENTER ...
... error assigned is too general to present any question for determination . See Rule of Practice SS . I discover no error in the decision appealed from and it is accordingly , affirmed . INDEMNITY WITHDRAWAL - APPLICATION TO ENTER ...
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... ERROR . UNITED STATES v . HULBERT . An assignment of error that sets forth that the decision is " contrary to law and the facts , and is unjust , unreasonable , illogical and biased " is not sufficient to war- rant consideration of the ...
... ERROR . UNITED STATES v . HULBERT . An assignment of error that sets forth that the decision is " contrary to law and the facts , and is unjust , unreasonable , illogical and biased " is not sufficient to war- rant consideration of the ...
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acres act of March Acting Secretary Chandler action affirmed alleging settlement allotments allowed appeal application approved April April 22 Assistant Secretary Chandler attorney August August 17 cancellation cash entry certificate claimant Commissioner December declaratory statement definite location Department entitled entryman evidence fact February February 28 final proof grant hearing held hereby homestead entry improvements Indian issued January January 14 January 29 July June June 15 land district land embraced Land Office letter local officers lode Manitoba ment mineral Northern Pacific R. R. Northern Pacific Railroad notice October October 13 office decision Pacific Railroad Company parties patent pending plat preference right prior public lands purchase purposes receipt record register and receiver rejected relinquishment reservation residence road rule scrip Secretary Noble selection September September 29 settlement laws settlers South Dakota Stat statute survey testimony thereof timber culture tion township townsite United
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Page 165 - States does and will hold the land thus allotted, for the period of twentyfive years, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the State...
Page 432 - ... 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 22 - ... that 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...
Page 426 - ... approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior the same shall be noted upon the plats in said office ; and thereafter all such lands over which such right of way...
Page 165 - That where any Indian entitled to allotment under existing laws shall make settlement upon any surveyed or unsurveyed lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated, he or she shall be entitled, upon application to the local land office for the district in which the lands are located, to have the same allotted to him or her and to his or her children in manner as provided by law for allotments to Indians residing upon reservations...
Page 4 - ... who are citizens of the United States or who have \ declared their intention to become such...
Page 587 - Alexander Archipelago in Southeastern Alaska, on the north side of Dixon's Entrance, be, and the same is hereby, set apart as a reservation for the use of the Metlakahtla Indians, and those people known as Metlakahtlans who have recently emigrated from British Columbia to Alaska, and such other Alaskan natives as may join them, to be held and used by them in common, under such rules and regulations, and subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 73 - State, and where such sections, or any parts thereof, have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of Congress, other lands equivalent thereto, in legal subdivisions of not less than...
Page 257 - State only in manner following, that is to say, that a quantity of land not exceeding one hundred and twenty sections, and included within a continuous length of twenty miles of roads, respectively, may be sold; and when the governor of said State shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior that any twenty continuous miles of either of said roads are completed...
Page 403 - Having already given its attention to the particular subject and provided for it, the legislature is reasonably presumed not to intend to alter that special provision by a subsequent general enactment unless that intention...