Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1902 |
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28 Stat acres Alaska amount received therefrom Applications to purchase approved Arizona BINGER HERMANN cancellation notices Cascade Range classes of entries Colorado commissions of register commuted to cash contracts County Crater Lake declaratory statements desert-land act ended June 30 entries and amount entries and locations etc.-Continued Excess payments Executive order Expense of depositing fees Final entries Final homestead entries fiscal year ended Forest Reserve fractional grants grazing Homestead entries commuted Idaho Incidental expenses July July 22 Lake land districts Land Office lines lodes meridian military reservations Montana Mount Diablo Mountainous Oklahoma Oregon Original homestead entries Pacific patents payments on homestead pending plats President's order railroads received for cancellation received for reducing reducing testimony register and receiver Reservoir Sales of land scrip South Dakota stone lands surveyor-general Territory testimony to writing timber and stone Total cash sales township Utah vacant public land Wyoming
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Page 54 - Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the use of rights of way through the public lands, forest, and other reservations of the United States, and the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks, California, for electrical plants, poles, and lines for the generation and distribution of electrical power, and for telephone and telegraph purposes, and for canals, ditches, pipes, and pipe...
Page 226 - ... in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent...
Page 242 - An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes." approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, may be used for purposes of a public nature; and said rights of way may be used for purposes of water transportation, for domestic purposes, or for the development of power, as subsidiary to the main purpose of Irrigation or drainage.
Page 152 - The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provided for. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Page 375 - Office shall perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States, or in anywise respecting such public lands, and, also, such as relate to private claims of land, and the issuing of patents for all [agents] [grants] of land under the authority of the government.
Page 149 - States, be open to settlement, they shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead and town,site laws of the United States...
Page 151 - If at the time of considering his regular application for entry it appear that an applicant is disqualified from making homestead entry of these lands his application will be rejected, notwithstanding his prior registration. If any applicant shall register more than once hereunder, or in any other than his true name, or shall transfer his registration certificate, he will thereby lose all the benefits of the registration and drawing herein provided for, and will be precluded from entering or settling...
Page 151 - ... appear and present his application for entry when the number assigned to him by the drawing is reached, his right to enter will be passed until after the other applications assigned for that day have been disposed of, when he will be given another opportunity to make entry, failing in which he will be deemed to have abandoned his right to make entry under such drawing. To obtain the allowance of a homestead entry, each applicant must personally present the certificate of registration theretofore...
Page 116 - That in cases in which a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim or by a patent is included within the limits of a public forest reservation, the settler or owner thereof may, if he desires to do so, relinquish the tract to the Government, and may select in lieu thereof a tract of vacant land open to settlement not exceeding in area the tract covered by his claim or patent; and no charge shall be made in such cases for making the entry of record or issuing the patent to cover the tract selected...
Page 148 - That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late Civil and the Spanish War or Philippine insurrection, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of March first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged...