Circular from the General Land Office Showing the Manner of Proceeding to Obtain Title to Public Lands Under the Homestead, Desert Land, and Other Laws: Issued Oct. 30, 1895U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - 283 pages |
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... improvement have been made , may by special enactment make the affidavit required by law before the officer commanding in the branch of service in which the applicant is engaged . ( Sec . 2293 , Rev. Stat .; Appendix No. 1 , p . 136 ...
... improvement have been made , may by special enactment make the affidavit required by law before the officer commanding in the branch of service in which the applicant is engaged . ( Sec . 2293 , Rev. Stat .; Appendix No. 1 , p . 136 ...
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... improvements on the land the right of entry should be awarded to the highest bidder . Second . Where one has actual settlement and improvement and the other has not , it should be awarded to the actual settler . Third . Where both ...
... improvements on the land the right of entry should be awarded to the highest bidder . Second . Where one has actual settlement and improvement and the other has not , it should be awarded to the actual settler . Third . Where both ...
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... improvements have been made thereon by the applicant . 2. How much of the land has been cultivated by the applicant , and for what period of time . 3. In case of failure or injury to crop , what crops have failed or been injured or ...
... improvements have been made thereon by the applicant . 2. How much of the land has been cultivated by the applicant , and for what period of time . 3. In case of failure or injury to crop , what crops have failed or been injured or ...
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... improvements placed thereon ; the character and extent of the damage to the settler's property caused by the fire ; the date when the same occurred ; whether or not the party was thereby obliged to leave the claim , and such other facts ...
... improvements placed thereon ; the character and extent of the damage to the settler's property caused by the fire ; the date when the same occurred ; whether or not the party was thereby obliged to leave the claim , and such other facts ...
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... improvements were made thereon by the applicant . 2. How much land was cultivated by the applicant , and for what period of time . 3. In case of failure or injury to crop , what crops failed or were injured or destroyed , to what extent ...
... improvements were made thereon by the applicant . 2. How much land was cultivated by the applicant , and for what period of time . 3. In case of failure or injury to crop , what crops failed or were injured or destroyed , to what extent ...
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26 Stat acres act of Congress act of June act of March affidavit amended America in Congress Appendix application assignment August 30 benefit bona fide bona fide purchasers cents per acre certificate claim claimant Commissioner commutation contest cultivation declaration declaratory statement deposit desert land district land office dollars eighteen hundred enter entitled An act fees and commissions filed final proof grant hereafter hereby heretofore homestead entry homestead laws homestead settlers Indians Interior issued June 14 land embraced legal subdivisions ment mineral Muscogee or Creek nonmineral Northern Pacific Railroad notice oath occupation Oklahoma original entry paid party patent person plats pre-emption preemption preemption laws prescribed prior public lands purposes railroad receipt register and receiver register or receiver reservations residence Revised Statutes scrip Secretary settlement Sioux survey Territory Territory of Dakota thereof thereto timber tion township tract of land United witnesses
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Page 136 - That no certificate shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry ; and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry ; or, if he be dead, his widow ; or, in case of her death, his heirs or devisee...
Page 273 - Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered...
Page 44 - ... 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 himself...
Page 213 - 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 272 - ... with regard thereto ; that there is not, to his knowledge, within the limits thereof, any vein or lode of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin.
Page 223 - On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
Page 223 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments in 1975".
Page 254 - States, or given aid and comfort to its enemies, and that such application is made for his or her exclusive use and benefit, and that said entry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not, either directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever...
Page 140 - 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 177 - That in cases where the use of water for irrigation is necessary to render the lands within any Indian reservation available for agricultural purposes, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to secure a just and equal...