Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the InteriorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 |
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... claims , the public apprehension will at once conclude that such claims as he has approved are well founded in law and equity . Titles to those grants may therefore be considered settled , while the showing that his records will make ...
... claims , the public apprehension will at once conclude that such claims as he has approved are well founded in law and equity . Titles to those grants may therefore be considered settled , while the showing that his records will make ...
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... claimed , and with some apparent reason , that the best ore bodies there were those in line , which might come and ⚫ go at any time . But at 300 feet depth in this mine , which is centrally located with respect to a very large and ...
... claimed , and with some apparent reason , that the best ore bodies there were those in line , which might come and ⚫ go at any time . But at 300 feet depth in this mine , which is centrally located with respect to a very large and ...
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... claim and then transmit it to the Secretary of the Interior , by whom it was to be sent to Con- gress for its action . The object of this system , no doubt , was to de- termine which part of the land was public domain belonging to the ...
... claim and then transmit it to the Secretary of the Interior , by whom it was to be sent to Con- gress for its action . The object of this system , no doubt , was to de- termine which part of the land was public domain belonging to the ...
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... claim , no one in locating land as public domain is safe from the chance that some grant yet to be presented may cover and ... claims and settle- ment of these titles . This tribunal should be a court in order to chal- lenge the highest ...
... claim , no one in locating land as public domain is safe from the chance that some grant yet to be presented may cover and ... claims and settle- ment of these titles . This tribunal should be a court in order to chal- lenge the highest ...
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... claim that the re- sults are more satisfactory than those derived from shipping full - grown cattle to Kansas City or Chicago when prices are as low and uncertain as during the last two years . Sheep owners met with considerable losses ...
... claim that the re- sults are more satisfactory than those derived from shipping full - grown cattle to Kansas City or Chicago when prices are as low and uncertain as during the last two years . Sheep owners met with considerable losses ...
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Page 59 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 61 - That the creation of any obstruction, not affirmatively authorized by law, to the navigable capacity of any waters in respect of which the United States has jurisdiction, is hereby prohibited.
Page 62 - The very considerations which judges most rarely mention, and always with an apology, are the secret root from which the law draws all the juices of life. I mean, of course, considerations of what is expedient for the community concerned.
Page 58 - If, for the purpose of making the said rivers navigable, or for maintaining them in such state, it should be necessary or advantageous to establish any tax or contribution, this shall not be done without the consent of both governments. The stipulations contained in the present article shall not impair the territorial rights of either republic within its established limits.
Page 62 - Every important principle which is developed by litigation is in fact and at bottom the result of more or less definitely understood views of public policy; most generally, to be sure, under our practice and traditions, the unconscious result of instinctive preferences and inarticulate convictions but none the less traceable to views of public policy in the last analysis.
Page 118 - The owner or agent of every coal mine shall make or cause to be made an accurate map or plan of the workings of such coal mine, on a scale of one hundred feet to the inch.
Page 11 - As a conclusion of law the court found that the statute of limitations did not begin to run until the...
Page 118 - ... charge of the agent of such mine, and in all mines the doors used in assisting or directing the ventilation of the mine shall be so hung and adjusted that they will close themselves or be supplied with springs or pulleys so that they...
Page 61 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.