Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 |
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... entry voidable , but that the entryman would be allowed to file supplemental affidavit of qualification before the proper officer , In the case of Schrotberger v . Arnold , ( 6 L. D. , 425 ) the Department held that an affidavit made ...
... entry voidable , but that the entryman would be allowed to file supplemental affidavit of qualification before the proper officer , In the case of Schrotberger v . Arnold , ( 6 L. D. , 425 ) the Department held that an affidavit made ...
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... ENTRY - RESIDENCE . ADAM S. HARRIS . In the absence of any intervening adverse claim , a homestead entryman may receive credit for a period of residence preceding his entry , and while he held the land under the timber culture law ...
... ENTRY - RESIDENCE . ADAM S. HARRIS . In the absence of any intervening adverse claim , a homestead entryman may receive credit for a period of residence preceding his entry , and while he held the land under the timber culture law ...
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... entryman upon the sub- mission of homestead proof , and in the absence of an intervening ad- verse claim for a period of residence preceding his homestead entry , and while the land was covered by a timber - culture entry previously ...
... entryman upon the sub- mission of homestead proof , and in the absence of an intervening ad- verse claim for a period of residence preceding his homestead entry , and while the land was covered by a timber - culture entry previously ...
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... entry is situated in one or more of the smallest legal sub divisions . The main questions to be determined in each case are : ( 1 ) Was the land desert in charac- ter , and the entry compact in form , and ( 2 ) was the entryman duly ...
... entry is situated in one or more of the smallest legal sub divisions . The main questions to be determined in each case are : ( 1 ) Was the land desert in charac- ter , and the entry compact in form , and ( 2 ) was the entryman duly ...
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... entry be canceled . On appeal , your office affirmed the findings of the local office and held said entry for cancellation . The entryman appeals , and assigns nineteen grounds of error , which may be briefly grouped as error in ...
... entry be canceled . On appeal , your office affirmed the findings of the local office and held said entry for cancellation . The entryman appeals , and assigns nineteen grounds of error , which may be briefly grouped as error in ...
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acres act of June act of March adverse claim affidavit affirmed allowed approved April attorney Board of Equitable cash entry claimant Commissioner Stockslager complied Congress considered the appeal contest court December 15 declaratory statement Department desert land desert land act entitled entryman fact faith February February 26 filed final proof grant hearing held holding for cancellation homestead entry homestead law improvements indemnity issued January January 22 July June 15 June 22 land covered land district Land Office letter limits local officers lode ment Noble to Commissioner notice October October 13 office decision parties patent plat pre-emption law pre-emptor prior public lands purchase question record register and receiver rejected relinquishment residence road rule scrip Secretary Noble Secretary Vilas selection September 28 settlement laws Stat survey swamp Territory testimony thereof timber culture entry tion township United Vilas to Commissioner Washington Territory witnesses
Popular passages
Page 290 - 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...
Page 351 - ... to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become such...
Page 487 - ... that he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he might acquire from the government of the United States should inure, in whole or in part, to the benefit of any person except...
Page 123 - If no adverse claim shall have been filed with the register and the receiver of the proper land office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists ; and thereafter Opinion of the Court.
Page 196 - Where non-mineral land not contiguous to the vein or lode is used or occupied by the proprietor of such vein or lode for mining or milling purposes, such non-adjacent surface ground may be embraced and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same may be patented therewith, subject to the same preliminary requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable to veins or lodes...
Page 118 - States, which shall have filed with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent of one hundred feet on each side of the central line of said road...
Page 389 - ... the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as If no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Page 123 - ... together with a notice of such application for a patent, in a conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat previous to the filing of the application for a patent, and shall file an affidavit of at least two persons, that such notice has been duly posted...
Page 361 - Where two or more veins intersect or cross each other, priority of title shall govern, and such prior location shall be entitled to all ore or mineral contained within the space of intersection ; but the subsequent location shall have the right of way through the space of intersection for the purposes of the convenient working of the mine.
Page 169 - ... every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said company may adopt, through the Territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections 'of land per mile on each side of said railroad, whenever it passes through any State...