Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 35U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 |
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33 Stat acres act of April act of June act of March action adverse claim affidavit affirmed alleged allowed appeal application for patent approved April 28 assignment authority canceled claimant Commissioner Congress contest court departmental decision deposits desert-land entitled entryman February February 26 filed final proof forest reserve grant heirs held hereby homestead entry homestead law improvements Indian Interior irrigation issued JAMES RUDOLPH GARFIELD January July July 27 June 16 June 27 Kinkaid act land department land district Land Office mineral mining claims Northern Pacific Northern Pacific Railroad Northern Pacific Railway notice October 19 office decision original entry overruled person plat preference right prior proceedings public lands purchase purpose question railroad record register and receiver rejected relinquishment residence Revised Statutes rule Secretary Hitchcock selection settlement settler showing supra survey thereof thereto tion township townsite tract United vein or lode withdrawal
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Page 440 - 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...
Page 654 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, render such limitation necessary.
Page 192 - ... 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 305 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 654 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations.
Page 358 - ... a failure to make any two payments when 'due shall render the entry subject to cancellation, with the forfeiture of all rights under this Act, as well as of any moneys already paid thereon.
Page 198 - ... infant child or children; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent...
Page 654 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location.
Page 655 - The remainder of the placer claim, or any placer claim not embracing any vein or lode claim, shall be paid for at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre...
Page 343 - as used in this act shall be understood to mean that certain act of the Congress of the United States approved June 17, 1902, entitled ' An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in •certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,' and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.