Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 23U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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... reason that more land is embraced therein and claimed by the company than is actually occupied or used by the claimants for their business . In your said office decision you say : It is suggested that if the survey was amended by ...
... reason that more land is embraced therein and claimed by the company than is actually occupied or used by the claimants for their business . In your said office decision you say : It is suggested that if the survey was amended by ...
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... reason- ing of these cases is applicable here . Jones had filed a claim in respect to this land , declaring that he had settled and improved it , and intended to purchase it under the provisions of the pre - emption law . Whether he had ...
... reason- ing of these cases is applicable here . Jones had filed a claim in respect to this land , declaring that he had settled and improved it , and intended to purchase it under the provisions of the pre - emption law . Whether he had ...
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... reason of this threat he became alarmed , went to Birmingham and made his relinquishment , not knowing that he had ... reasons assigned by you for refusing to re - instate said entry , it is to be observed that the applicants herein do ...
... reason of this threat he became alarmed , went to Birmingham and made his relinquishment , not knowing that he had ... reasons assigned by you for refusing to re - instate said entry , it is to be observed that the applicants herein do ...
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... reason that he has not disclosed any interest in the land . Whatever right he acquired , if any , under his deed from Vines for the surface , was absorbed by his homestead entry , which he voluntarily relinquished . It is urged that the ...
... reason that he has not disclosed any interest in the land . Whatever right he acquired , if any , under his deed from Vines for the surface , was absorbed by his homestead entry , which he voluntarily relinquished . It is urged that the ...
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... reason of Haskins having entered the Cherokee Outlet in violation of the President's proclamation . On September 30 , 1893 , Hattie M. Davis filed an affidavit of contest against said entry , alleging that she was the first settler ...
... reason of Haskins having entered the Cherokee Outlet in violation of the President's proclamation . On September 30 , 1893 , Hattie M. Davis filed an affidavit of contest against said entry , alleging that she was the first settler ...
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acres act of March Acting Secretary Reynolds adverse affidavit of contest affirmed alleged allowed appeal application to enter April April 21 August 28 canceled Cedar Rapids certificate Chemung claimant coal Commissioner Congress corners court December definite location Department departmental decision Duncan L entitled entryman evidence fact February February 15 field notes filed final proof Fort Laramie grant hearing held homestead entry issued June Lake Superior land district Land Office March 12 Melloy mineral mining motion for review Northern Pacific R. R. Northern Pacific Railroad notice October October 16 office decision office letter parties patent payment placer claims placer mining plat pre-emption prior protest public lands purpose record register and receiver rejected relinquishment reservation review of departmental road rule Secretary Smith September 29 settlement settler Stat supra survey testimony thereof tion township townsite vein or lode Wisconsin Central Railroad
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Page 159 - ... 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...
Page 363 - The surveyors, as they are respectively qualified, shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships of six miles square by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles...
Page 383 - State, and whenever, on the line thereof the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption, or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed...
Page 604 - Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1873. 8. Washington, 1874. Statement of the Public Debt of the United States, July 1, 1874.
Page 506 - The claimant is then required to post a copy of the plat of such survey in a conspicuous place upon the claim, together with notice of his intention to apply for a patent therefor, which notice will give the date of posting, the name of the claimant, the name of the claim, the number of the survey, the mining district and county, and the names of adjoining and conflicting claims as shown by the plat of survey.
Page 348 - That when the lands in the said Territory shall be surveyed under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be and the same are hereby reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in said Territory, and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of the same.
Page 100 - ... where a vein or lode, such as is described in section twenty-three hundred and twenty, is known to exist within the boundaries of a placer claim, an application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim...
Page 322 - That any person authorized to enter lands under the mining laws of the United States may enter lands that are chiefly valuable for building stone under the provisions of the law in relation to...
Page 205 - July 2, 1864, chap. 217, and was thereby "authorized and empowered to lay out, locate, construct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy a continuous railroad and telegraph line, with the appurtenances, namely, beginning at a point on Lake Superior, in the state of Minnesota or Wisconsin, thence westerly, by the most eligible railroad route, as shall be determined by said company, within the territory of the United States, on a line north of the forty-fifth degree of latitude, to some point on Puget's sound...
Page 100 - Where the same person, association, or corporation is in possession of a placer claim, and also a vein or lode included within the boundaries thereof, application shall be made for a patent for the placer claim, with the statement that it includes such vein or lode, and in such case a patent shall issue for the placer claim, subject to the provisions of this chapter, including such vein or lode, upon the payment of five dollars per acre for such vein or lode claim, and twenty-five feet of surface...