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... thing that can be done , until room is provided , is to give the maximum force that can be employed and pay salaries high enough to get good , if not the best , talent . APPEALS . Public - land controversies involve large values . Their ...
... thing that can be done , until room is provided , is to give the maximum force that can be employed and pay salaries high enough to get good , if not the best , talent . APPEALS . Public - land controversies involve large values . Their ...
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... thing , and the act of following this formation whose nature and limits cannot be fixed beyond the locator's surface ground and under the surface ground of another owner , is the most frequent and vexatious cause of litigation . The ...
... thing , and the act of following this formation whose nature and limits cannot be fixed beyond the locator's surface ground and under the surface ground of another owner , is the most frequent and vexatious cause of litigation . The ...
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... thing should be transferred to the United States and let the parties commence there in the first instance . It would be best , and avoid unnecessary conflict between miners , to require them to commence with an official survey in the ...
... thing should be transferred to the United States and let the parties commence there in the first instance . It would be best , and avoid unnecessary conflict between miners , to require them to commence with an official survey in the ...
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... thing , and I think that the price should be reduced to $ 1.25 uniformly . At present the price of $ 2.50 per acre is too much . The land is not worth that . The bulk of lands in this district , forty miles wide , are within railroad ...
... thing , and I think that the price should be reduced to $ 1.25 uniformly . At present the price of $ 2.50 per acre is too much . The land is not worth that . The bulk of lands in this district , forty miles wide , are within railroad ...
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... thing , they take off the timber and then abandon the land . This is true in many cases . There is still another complication upon this land . The Central Pacific Railroad claims all the timber upon the odd sections , and they sell it ...
... thing , they take off the timber and then abandon the land . This is true in many cases . There is still another complication upon this land . The Central Pacific Railroad claims all the timber upon the odd sections , and they sell it ...
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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...