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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... rejected this application to enter because settle- ment was made subsequently to the definite location of the road . Upon appeal your office decision of May 9 , 1895 , was rendered , and though it was then shown that the order of ...
... rejected this application to enter because settle- ment was made subsequently to the definite location of the road . Upon appeal your office decision of May 9 , 1895 , was rendered , and though it was then shown that the order of ...
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... rejected , for , at the date of the withdrawal on general route , and also when the line of the road was definitely located , there was a preemption filing of record , which had attached to the land in controversy , and the company can ...
... rejected , for , at the date of the withdrawal on general route , and also when the line of the road was definitely located , there was a preemption filing of record , which had attached to the land in controversy , and the company can ...
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... rejecting his application . Your office , -passing upon the question presented by the appeal , -rejected the claim of Heiskell to make entry of the tract in question . From this decision Heiskell appealed to the Department . The case ...
... rejecting his application . Your office , -passing upon the question presented by the appeal , -rejected the claim of Heiskell to make entry of the tract in question . From this decision Heiskell appealed to the Department . The case ...
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... rejected his second application for leave of absence , and if they did so , whether they acted properly in so doing . 2d . If it should be determined that he can be permitted to make a second homestead entry , was he or McDowell the ...
... rejected his second application for leave of absence , and if they did so , whether they acted properly in so doing . 2d . If it should be determined that he can be permitted to make a second homestead entry , was he or McDowell the ...
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... rejected . Your office decision is accordingly reversed . RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY - RESERVATION IN PATENT . DUNLAP v . SHINGLE SPRINGS AND PLACERVILLE R. R. Co. A railroad right of way under the act of March 3 , 1875 , is fully protected ...
... rejected . Your office decision is accordingly reversed . RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY - RESERVATION IN PATENT . DUNLAP v . SHINGLE SPRINGS AND PLACERVILLE R. R. Co. A railroad right of way under the act of March 3 , 1875 , is fully protected ...
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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...