Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 31U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 |
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... Construction Co. r . " Proclamation ( Kiowa , etc. , lands ) Purtle r . Steffee ... 352 1 400 , 403 Rees 408 Pyle , Northern Pacific Ry . Co. v . 396 Maresh , Hochwart .. 276 Mary Darling Placer Claim ... 64 McCaslin , Webb .... 243 ...
... Construction Co. r . " Proclamation ( Kiowa , etc. , lands ) Purtle r . Steffee ... 352 1 400 , 403 Rees 408 Pyle , Northern Pacific Ry . Co. v . 396 Maresh , Hochwart .. 276 Mary Darling Placer Claim ... 64 McCaslin , Webb .... 243 ...
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... construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands ; act of June 17 , 1902 ... 392 420 January 3 , 1902. - School land ; lease ; act of June 21 , 1898 188 September 19 , 1902. - Timber cutting ; act of July 1 , 1898 412 ...
... construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands ; act of June 17 , 1902 ... 392 420 January 3 , 1902. - School land ; lease ; act of June 21 , 1898 188 September 19 , 1902. - Timber cutting ; act of July 1 , 1898 412 ...
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... construction or other purpose . 3. Application for permission to use the desired right of way through the public lands , reservations , and parks designated in the act must be filed and permission granted , as herein provided , before ...
... construction or other purpose . 3. Application for permission to use the desired right of way through the public lands , reservations , and parks designated in the act must be filed and permission granted , as herein provided , before ...
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... construction of the Northern Pacific railroad , were excepted from the operation of said grant because they were , at the date of the passage of said act , within ten miles of the probable route of the Lake Superior and Mississippi ...
... construction of the Northern Pacific railroad , were excepted from the operation of said grant because they were , at the date of the passage of said act , within ten miles of the probable route of the Lake Superior and Mississippi ...
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... construction of the Northern Pacific railroad , and that they were included in the grant to that company made by the act of July 2 , 1864 , because falling without the limits of the grant made by the act of May 5 , 1864 , as established ...
... construction of the Northern Pacific railroad , and that they were included in the grant to that company made by the act of July 2 , 1864 , because falling without the limits of the grant made by the act of May 5 , 1864 , as established ...
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26 Stat 31 Stat act of Congress act of June act of March adverse claim affidavit alleged allotments amended appeal application for patent approved assignment August August 18 authority BINGER HERMANN certificate claimant Comanche Commissioner contest court disposal entitled entryman February 28 field notes filed forest reservation grant hereby homestead entry homestead laws indemnity Indian Interior July June 13 June 21 Kiowa land district Land Office lieu ment mineral lands mining claim mining laws non-mineral Northern Pacific Railroad Northern Pacific Railway notice office decision opened to settlement overruled Pacific R. R. party patent person placer mining plat prior protest provisions public lands purchase purposes record register and receiver regulations relinquished reservoir Revised Statutes RULE Secretary Hitchcock selection settlers sixty acres supra survey surveyor-general Territory territory of Hawaii therein thereof thereto timber tion township townsite tract United vein or lode
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Page 460 - 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 454 - 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...
Page 474 - ... 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 seventytwo, render such limitation necessary.
Page 468 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except be established, 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 467 - 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. On all claims located prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten dollars...
Page 453 - 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 and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent...
Page 454 - Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the -right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface...
Page 465 - That in all patents for lands hereafter taken up under any of the land laws of the United States or on entries or claims validated by this act, west of the one hundredth meridian it shall be expressed that there is reserved from the lands in said patent described a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States.
Page 455 - All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim.
Page 456 - ... 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.