Report of the Commissioner of General Land OfficeThe Office, 1868 |
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... direction . Its population in 1840 was 2,692 ; in 1850 , 8,090 ; in 1860 , 18,611 ; in 1865 , 35,000 ; and is now probably not far short of 50,000 . It is a prominent railroad center , and the seat of an extensive system of manufactures ...
... direction . Its population in 1840 was 2,692 ; in 1850 , 8,090 ; in 1860 , 18,611 ; in 1865 , 35,000 ; and is now probably not far short of 50,000 . It is a prominent railroad center , and the seat of an extensive system of manufactures ...
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... direction , afford an extensive inland navigation , to which have been added , in late years , a system of railroads designed to con- nect all important points in the State . Florida has over 1,000 miles of coast line , the most ...
... direction , afford an extensive inland navigation , to which have been added , in late years , a system of railroads designed to con- nect all important points in the State . Florida has over 1,000 miles of coast line , the most ...
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... direction parallel with that river , and is navigable for 350 miles . Its chief tributaries are the Little Missouri , Sabine , Saline , Moro , Bayou Bartholomew , and Bayou Bœuf . The Red River runs through the southwestern corner of ...
... direction parallel with that river , and is navigable for 350 miles . Its chief tributaries are the Little Missouri , Sabine , Saline , Moro , Bayou Bartholomew , and Bayou Bœuf . The Red River runs through the southwestern corner of ...
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... direction , and 60 miles southwest of Little Rock , in Hot Springs County . These springs issue from a beautiful ridge of novaculite , and are re- markable for their number , the high temperature of the waters , and their mineral ...
... direction , and 60 miles southwest of Little Rock , in Hot Springs County . These springs issue from a beautiful ridge of novaculite , and are re- markable for their number , the high temperature of the waters , and their mineral ...
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... direction . Large forests of pine also exist in this locality adapted to building purposes . In the southeastern portion , in the neighborhood of the Big Sioux River , coal is said to exist in consid- erable quantities , while good ...
... direction . Large forests of pine also exist in this locality adapted to building purposes . In the southeastern portion , in the neighborhood of the Big Sioux River , coal is said to exist in consid- erable quantities , while good ...
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Page 151 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
Page 155 - 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 107 - ... lands included in any reservation, by any treaty, law, or proclamation of the president of the United States, or reserved for salines, or for other purposes...
Page 107 - Republican rivers, is hereby granted to the State of Kansas to aid in the construction of a bridge over the Republican River, on the public highway leading through the present reservation; but upon the express condition that this grant shall be accepted by the State of Kansas...
Page 124 - It is evident that a definition that would at this day limit public rivers in this country to tide-water rivers is utterly inadmissible. We have thousands of miles of public navigable water, including lakes and rivers in which there is no tide. And certainly there can be no reason for admiralty power over a public tide-water, which does not apply with equal force to any other public water used for commercial purposes and foreign trade. The lakes and the waters connecting them are undoubtedly public...
Page 130 - But grants of land, bounded on rivers, or upon margins of the same, or along the same, above tide water, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the center of the stream, unless the terms of the grant clearly denote the intention to stop at the edge or margin of the river...
Page 96 - An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of locating and disposing of lands in the western territory...
Page 157 - ... office, that officer will make an estimate of the cost thereof, which amount the claimant will deposit with any assistant United States treasurer or designated depository in favor of the United States Treasurer, to be passed to the credit of the fund created by " individual depositors for surveys of the public lands," and file with the surveyor-general duplicate certificates of such deposit in the usual manner.
Page 86 - States relating to customs, commerce and navigation were extended " to and over all the main-land, islands and waters of the territory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia by treaty concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
Page 175 - ... they are known to have been covered with luxuriant woods, verdant pastures, and fertile meadows, they are now too far deteriorated to be reclaimable by man, nor can they become again fitted for human use, except through great geological changes, or other mysterious influences or agencies of which we have no present knowledge, and over which we have no prospective control. The...