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Page xiii
... courts and the executive departments ; or whether it was intended to have presented in an orderly arrangement a ... courts ; of the supreme courts of the several States , and of the Interior Department . Very con- siderable progress has ...
... courts and the executive departments ; or whether it was intended to have presented in an orderly arrangement a ... courts ; of the supreme courts of the several States , and of the Interior Department . Very con- siderable progress has ...
Page xxxv
... courts are cumbered with an excessive number of suits , involving many million dollars of value . In that region the invester of capital too often buys only a law . suit , with a possible mine thrown in , and finds himself forced to ...
... courts are cumbered with an excessive number of suits , involving many million dollars of value . In that region the invester of capital too often buys only a law . suit , with a possible mine thrown in , and finds himself forced to ...
Page xxxviii
... courts have forced one honest man to rob the other . But there is still another , and , unfortunately , a lamentably numerous line of cases where the government sells a lode to one man , and by its laws invites a general , a frequent ...
... courts have forced one honest man to rob the other . But there is still another , and , unfortunately , a lamentably numerous line of cases where the government sells a lode to one man , and by its laws invites a general , a frequent ...
Page xl
... courts have held him to his unavoidable mistake . The existing law holds out the conditious for obtaining patents . Hav . ing permitted an inception of title dangerously vitiated by acts of local agents outside of the Federal ...
... courts have held him to his unavoidable mistake . The existing law holds out the conditious for obtaining patents . Hav . ing permitted an inception of title dangerously vitiated by acts of local agents outside of the Federal ...
Page xli
... courts before patent . Providing thus for all questions of legal principle , there is one point , namely , the area of the common - law claim , on which we have made no recommendation . The limited time allowed for our taking of testi ...
... courts before patent . Providing thus for all questions of legal principle , there is one point , namely , the area of the common - law claim , on which we have made no recommendation . The limited time allowed for our taking of testi ...
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Page lxxxiii - ... by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Page lxviii - Indian tribe, but shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities to taxation of other citizens of the United States.
Page lxviii - 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 xlvii - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the waters of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page lxxxiii - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page lxiii - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits...
Page lxxi - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this Act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page lviii - And the boundary lines which have not been actually run and marked shall be ascertained by running straight lines from the established corners to the opposite corresponding corners; but in those portions of the fractional townships where no such opposite corresponding corners have been or can be fixed, the...
Page lxv - ... infant child or children; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the State in which such...
Page lxvi - February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and every seaman, marine, and officer who has served in the Navy of the United States...