Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the InteriorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 |
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... opened to white settlement ; that they are to break up their tribal relations and become gradually assimilated with the white race ; and many of them seem to comprehend what that means , and are ambitious to hasten its accomplishment ...
... opened to white settlement ; that they are to break up their tribal relations and become gradually assimilated with the white race ; and many of them seem to comprehend what that means , and are ambitious to hasten its accomplishment ...
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... opened to white settlement . It may be inadmissible to remove the Indians now in this Territory to other localities . They are as a rule so far civilized and so generally surrounded with settlements that there is little if any danger of ...
... opened to white settlement . It may be inadmissible to remove the Indians now in this Territory to other localities . They are as a rule so far civilized and so generally surrounded with settlements that there is little if any danger of ...
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... opened , each about four feet in thickness , the lowest 150 feet below the surface , and each apparently belonging to a different stratum . This is an excellent coal for gas , steam , and domestic purposes , and its development , now ...
... opened , each about four feet in thickness , the lowest 150 feet below the surface , and each apparently belonging to a different stratum . This is an excellent coal for gas , steam , and domestic purposes , and its development , now ...
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... opened on August 12 , and that at Roswell will commence operations as soon as copies of the records at Las Cruces can be made for its use . The entries during the year ending June 30 , 1889 , were as follows , it being understood that ...
... opened on August 12 , and that at Roswell will commence operations as soon as copies of the records at Las Cruces can be made for its use . The entries during the year ending June 30 , 1889 , were as follows , it being understood that ...
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... opened . FORESTS AND LUMBER . There is little to be stated under this head , in addition to what is contained in the report of 1888. The lumber regions of the Territory are very extensive , and especially valuable from the fact that ...
... opened . FORESTS AND LUMBER . There is little to be stated under this head , in addition to what is contained in the report of 1888. The lumber regions of the Territory are very extensive , and especially valuable from the fact that ...
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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.