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Page xxiv
... less . Impelled by such considerations , the commission is constrained to recommend that all the arable lands of the western portion of the United States be held for the benefit of actual settlers under the home- stead act . It will be ...
... less . Impelled by such considerations , the commission is constrained to recommend that all the arable lands of the western portion of the United States be held for the benefit of actual settlers under the home- stead act . It will be ...
Page xxx
... less than four square miles . It is not believed that this would on a gen- eral average be equal to 160 acres of arable land , but for the best of the pasturage land this equivalence may exist , and when the better tracts are taken it ...
... less than four square miles . It is not believed that this would on a gen- eral average be equal to 160 acres of arable land , but for the best of the pasturage land this equivalence may exist , and when the better tracts are taken it ...
Page xxxi
... less upon the progress of settlement with proximity to lines of transportation than upon the qualities inher- ent in the lands themselves , for they will produce no agricultural crop , no forests can be grown thereon , and their value ...
... less upon the progress of settlement with proximity to lines of transportation than upon the qualities inher- ent in the lands themselves , for they will produce no agricultural crop , no forests can be grown thereon , and their value ...
Page xxxix
... less to pay than fight . " The robber's method is somewhat bolder and less certain of success , but his prize is greater . He sinks through his worthless claim and cuts the honest locator's veins where , in the language of the law ...
... less to pay than fight . " The robber's method is somewhat bolder and less certain of success , but his prize is greater . He sinks through his worthless claim and cuts the honest locator's veins where , in the language of the law ...
Page xlii
... less than one hundred and fifty have been reported to Congress , and of the number reported Congress has finally acted upon only seventy - one . Under the law , only copies of the original title papers were submitted to Congress , and ...
... less than one hundred and fifty have been reported to Congress , and of the number reported Congress has finally acted upon only seventy - one . Under the law , only copies of the original title papers were submitted to Congress , and ...
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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...