Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1895 |
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... Revised Statutes of the United States . In addition to the examina- tions made by special agents and special examiners , certain field exam- inations were made by four clerks ( professional surveyors ) , detailed for the purpose from ...
... Revised Statutes of the United States . In addition to the examina- tions made by special agents and special examiners , certain field exam- inations were made by four clerks ( professional surveyors ) , detailed for the purpose from ...
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... state that , the Depart- ment has decided that the provisions of section 2288 , Revised Statutes , authorizing settlers to transfer any portion of their claims for church , cemetery , school , or irrigation purposes , are applicable to ...
... state that , the Depart- ment has decided that the provisions of section 2288 , Revised Statutes , authorizing settlers to transfer any portion of their claims for church , cemetery , school , or irrigation purposes , are applicable to ...
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... Revised Statutes were so amended as to authorize persons and associations lawfully possessed of coal lands and otherwise qualified to make entry thereof , or the owners or grantees of public lands of the United States under any law ...
... Revised Statutes were so amended as to authorize persons and associations lawfully possessed of coal lands and otherwise qualified to make entry thereof , or the owners or grantees of public lands of the United States under any law ...
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... Revised Statutes is $ 16,698.70 , and the amount involved in fines imposed and judgments rendered is $ 31,081.35 . On the 1st day of July , 1895 , there were pending in the United States courts 80 civil suits for the recovery of a total ...
... Revised Statutes is $ 16,698.70 , and the amount involved in fines imposed and judgments rendered is $ 31,081.35 . On the 1st day of July , 1895 , there were pending in the United States courts 80 civil suits for the recovery of a total ...
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... Revised Statutes , was perfected by his widow without claim for or allowance of credit for the period of military service of the soldier , yet his widow has no rights under section 2307 , Revised Statutes , and can not receive credit ...
... Revised Statutes , was perfected by his widow without claim for or allowance of credit for the period of military service of the soldier , yet his widow has no rights under section 2307 , Revised Statutes , and can not receive credit ...
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Page 55 - An Act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes...
Page 272 - ... entry, location, or other disposal under the laws of the United States until otherwise directed by the commission or by Congress. Notice that such application has been made, together with the date of filing thereof and a description of the lands of the United States affected thereby, shall be filed in the local land office for the district in which such lands are located.
Page 115 - ... the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twentythree hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be abridged...
Page 3 - SIR: I have the honor to submit the following as the annual report of this office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896.
Page 276 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the Secretary of the 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...
Page 16 - An act to provide for the adjustment of land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads and for the forfeiture of unearned lands, and for other purposes...
Page 134 - ... actual residence on the land shall be established by such evidence as is now required in homestead proofs as a prerequisite to title or patent.
Page 117 - That every person who shall sell or give away any intoxicating liquors or other intoxicants upon any of the lauds by said agreement ceded, or upon any of the lands included in the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation, as created by the treaty of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than two years and by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars...
Page 262 - ... or said certificates may be assigned by indorsement and may be received by the Government in payment for any public lands of the United States in the States where the surveys were made, entered or to be entered under the laws thereof.
Page 15 - Provided, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, In favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the states by the...