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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... examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field , and to pre- vent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors and for examinations of ...
... examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field , and to pre- vent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors and for examinations of ...
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... examination of surveys in the field , the amount of the appropriation for public surveys actually available and appli- cable to all surveying districts was $ 205,000 , of which apportionment was made to the several districts as follows ...
... examination of surveys in the field , the amount of the appropriation for public surveys actually available and appli- cable to all surveying districts was $ 205,000 , of which apportionment was made to the several districts as follows ...
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... examination in the field . During the year sixteen full and fractional townships were sub- divided . Total number of acres surveyed and approved , 121,539.81 ; surveyed but not approved , 136,276.30 acres . FLORIDA . No apportionment of ...
... examination in the field . During the year sixteen full and fractional townships were sub- divided . Total number of acres surveyed and approved , 121,539.81 ; surveyed but not approved , 136,276.30 acres . FLORIDA . No apportionment of ...
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... examination of the returns of a deputy surveyor results in compelling him to wait at least two years and sometimes three years before receiving his pay from the Government , I would earnestly recommend that at the earliest possible ...
... examination of the returns of a deputy surveyor results in compelling him to wait at least two years and sometimes three years before receiving his pay from the Government , I would earnestly recommend that at the earliest possible ...
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... examination is favorable , that the surveyor - general make an approximate estimate of the cost of these sur- veys , which he shall forward to the Commissioner with the recommendation that 75 per cent of such estimate be at once paid to ...
... examination is favorable , that the surveyor - general make an approximate estimate of the cost of these sur- veys , which he shall forward to the Commissioner with the recommendation that 75 per cent of such estimate be at once paid to ...
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28 Stat acres amount received therefrom Applications to purchase appropriation approved August 18 Central Pacific Railroad classes of entries Colorado Commissioner commissions of register commuted to cash contract County deputy surveyor ending June 30 entries and amount entries and locations etc.-Continued examination Excess payments Executive order Expense of depositing fees field notes Final entries Final homestead entries fiscal year ending grants Homestead entries commuted Idaho Incidental expenses June 28 June 30 land districts Land Office lines Lots military reservations mineral lands Montana Oregon original entries Original homestead entries Pacific patented payments on homestead pending plats preemption private land claims public lands public surveys railroad received for reducing reducing testimony register and receiver Revised Statutes scrip Secretary South Dakota stone lands subdivisions surveyor-general swamp lands testimony to writing timber and stone timber-culture laws Total cash sales Total vacant land township tract Wyoming
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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...