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 |
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... Territory of Alaska . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That all persons , their heirs or assigns , who have in good faith personally or by an attorney in ...
... Territory of Alaska . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That all persons , their heirs or assigns , who have in good faith personally or by an attorney in ...
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... Territory of Alaska , and for other purposes . lands . rected co al Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Alaska of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That the Secretary of the Interior be , and ...
... Territory of Alaska , and for other purposes . lands . rected co al Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Alaska of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That the Secretary of the Interior be , and ...
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... Territory thereof : Provided , That a majority of the stock of such corporation shall at all times be owned and held by citizens of the United States : And provided Holdings by further , That no railroad or common carrier shall be per ...
... Territory thereof : Provided , That a majority of the stock of such corporation shall at all times be owned and held by citizens of the United States : And provided Holdings by further , That no railroad or common carrier shall be per ...
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... Territory of Alaska , the lease thereof shall be forfeited by appro- priate court proceedings . SEC . 9. That for the privilege of mining and extracting and disposing of the coal in the lands covered by his lease the lessee shall pay to ...
... Territory of Alaska , the lease thereof shall be forfeited by appro- priate court proceedings . SEC . 9. That for the privilege of mining and extracting and disposing of the coal in the lands covered by his lease the lessee shall pay to ...
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... Territory of Alaska as may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of coal washeries or other works incident to the mining or treat- ment of coal , which lands may be occupied and used jointly or severally by lessees or ...
... Territory of Alaska as may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of coal washeries or other works incident to the mining or treat- ment of coal , which lands may be occupied and used jointly or severally by lessees or ...
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35 Stat act approved act entitled act of Congress act of June Act of March act to provide affidavit aforesaid agricultural allotment allottee America in Congress application appropriation act certificate claim claimant Commissioner Congress assembled construction deposits desert-land disposed district of Alaska dollars eighteen hundred enacted entered entitled An act entryman February 24 fees filing forest reserves hereafter heretofore homestead entry homestead laws House of Representatives hundred and sixty Indian appropriation act Indian Reservation Interior irrigation issued June 25 Land Office lands granted lease lieu limits ment mineral lands mining nineteen hundred nonmineral Northern Pacific Railroad paid patent payment person plat preemption preemption laws prescribed prior Provided further public lands purchase purposes register and receiver residence Revised Statutes road Secretary selected Senate and House settlement settlers sixty acres sold South Dakota survey Territory thereof thereto timber tion township tract United
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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...