Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 50U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 |
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38 Stat 41 Stat acres act of February act of June act of March affidavit Alaska allowed amended appeal application approved assignment Assistant Secretary authorized cancellation Circular cited and applied claimant coal coal lands Commissioner Company Congress contest court deposits desert-land entry disposal District of Alaska drilling entitled entryman February 25 filed final proof FINNEY GAS LANDS-PROSPECTING grant hereby homestead act homestead entry homestead law Interior irrigation issued January 27 July July 17 June 17 June 25 land district land laws Land Office leasing act lessee March 28 ment mineral mining claims nonmineral Northern Pacific Railway notice oil and gas overruled patent payment permittee placer mining plat preference right prior prospecting permit public lands purchase purposes pursuant railroad reclamation record register and receiver regulations rejected repayment reservation Revised Statutes September 22 supra survey thereof timber tion tract United unsurveyed WILLIAM SPRY withdrawal
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Page 124 - The above instrument, consisting of one sheet, was at the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by the said 0 ohn Forsythe, as and for his last will and testament, in presence of us, who at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
Page 356 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 262 - ... upon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as If no location of the same had ever been made...
Page 316 - ... shall be admitted to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States, and shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion. The uncivilized tribes will be subject to such laws and regulations as the United States may, from time to time, adopt in regard to aboriginal tribes of that country.
Page 30 - All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. 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 316 - That the Indians or other persons in said district shall not be disturbed in the possession of any lands actually in their use or occupation or now claimed by them, but the terms under which such persons may acquire title to such lands is reserved for future legislation by Congress...
Page 316 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory, according to their choice, reserving their natural allegiance, may return to Russia within three years ; but, if they should prefer to remain in the ceded territory, they, with the exception of uncivilized native tribes, shall be admitted to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States, and shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion.
Page 67 - States, which shall have filed with the secretary of the interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent of one hundred feet on each side of the central line of said road...
Page 82 - States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any...
Page 119 - No Member of, or Delegate to, Congress, or Resident Commissioner, after his election or appointment, or either before or after he has qualified and during his continuance in office...