Public Land Statutes of the United States: A Compilation of the General and Permanent Statutes of Practical Importance Relating to the Public Lands Down to the Close of the Second Session of the Seventy-first Congress, with Parallel Citations to the United States Code and an IndexU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 424 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 50
Page 3
... Pacific Railroad . State selections .. 157 159 161 161 163 163 Atlantic and Pacific Railroad .. 165 166 172 Mineral lands ...... Minnesota drainage . Officers and employees ... 177 202 205 Preemptions ... Private land claims . Railroad ...
... Pacific Railroad . State selections .. 157 159 161 161 163 163 Atlantic and Pacific Railroad .. 165 166 172 Mineral lands ...... Minnesota drainage . Officers and employees ... 177 202 205 Preemptions ... Private land claims . Railroad ...
Page 4
... Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads . Forfeiture of unearned grants . Northern Pacific Railroad .. Oregon & California Railroad . Settlers on public lands within railroad grants . Surveys .... Reclamation lands .... Registers and ...
... Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads . Forfeiture of unearned grants . Northern Pacific Railroad .. Oregon & California Railroad . Settlers on public lands within railroad grants . Surveys .... Reclamation lands .... Registers and ...
Page 28
... ' An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean , and to secure to the Government 999 preliminary sur the use of the same for postal 28 PUBLIC LAND STATUTES .
... ' An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean , and to secure to the Government 999 preliminary sur the use of the same for postal 28 PUBLIC LAND STATUTES .
Page 33
... Pacific Ocean harbors on the southern coast of Alaska with the navigable waters in the interior of Alaska , and with a coal field or fields so as best to aid in the development of the agricultural and mineral or other resources of ...
... Pacific Ocean harbors on the southern coast of Alaska with the navigable waters in the interior of Alaska , and with a coal field or fields so as best to aid in the development of the agricultural and mineral or other resources of ...
Page 161
... Pacific railroad lands . - Act of April 28 , 1904 ( 33 Stat . , 556 ) -Settlers having for 25 years occupied railroad lands in New Mexico .. Northern Pacific railroad lands . - Act of October 1 , 1890 ( 26 Stat . , 647 ) Settlers on ...
... Pacific railroad lands . - Act of April 28 , 1904 ( 33 Stat . , 556 ) -Settlers having for 25 years occupied railroad lands in New Mexico .. Northern Pacific railroad lands . - Act of October 1 , 1890 ( 26 Stat . , 647 ) Settlers on ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
36 Stat act entitled act of Congress act of June Act of March agricultural allotment America in Congress application appropriation act Central Pacific Railroad certificate claim coal Commissioner Congress assembled construction deposits desert-land disposed district district of Alaska dollars eighteen hundred enacted entitled An act entryman February 18 fees filed forest reserves hereafter heretofore homestead entry homestead laws House of Representatives hundred and sixty Indian appropriation act Interior irrigation issued June 25 Land Office lands granted lease lieu limits ment mineral lands nineteen hundred nonmineral Northern Pacific Railroad paid patent payment person plat preemption preemption laws prescribed prior provided further public lands purchase purposes railroad and telegraph reclamation fund register and receiver reservoir residence Revised Statutes road Secretary selected Senate and House settlement settlers sixty acres sold South Dakota survey surveyor-general Territory thereof thereto timber tion town-site township tract United
Popular passages
Page 178 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 288 - ... injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Page 122 - 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 114 - Whoever, 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, that he will testify. declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury...
Page 180 - The miners of each mining district may make regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or with the laws of the State or Territory in which the district is situated, governing the location, manner of recording, amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim, subject to the following requirements: The location must be distinctly marked on the ground, so that its boundaries can be readily traced.
Page 69 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest, within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 126 - Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the state or territory where such land is located...
Page 222 - Pacific coast, and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores, over the route of said line of railway, every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers...
Page 341 - Sec. 10. That upon the admission of each of said states into the Union, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of said proposed states, and where such sections, or any parts thereof, have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of congress...
Page 227 - ... 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...