Report of the Commissioner of General Land OfficeThe Office, 1868 |
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... soil , products , and resources , the quantity of public land undisposed of in each of them being stated . 7. The advantages of soil and resources shown in regard to each of the political communities flanking the right bank of the ...
... soil , products , and resources , the quantity of public land undisposed of in each of them being stated . 7. The advantages of soil and resources shown in regard to each of the political communities flanking the right bank of the ...
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... soil and surface to the southern , the latter being generally level or undulating , and very fertile , the former rugged and in certain portions even mountainous , the streams abounding in rapids and waterfalls , rendering the scenery ...
... soil and surface to the southern , the latter being generally level or undulating , and very fertile , the former rugged and in certain portions even mountainous , the streams abounding in rapids and waterfalls , rendering the scenery ...
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... soil is everywhere attested by a luxuriant flora and by crops of cereals , fruits , and vegetables . The wheat yield of Michigan in 1866 was 14,740,639 bushels , being an average of 13.8 bushels per acre , valued at $ 37,588,630 , while ...
... soil is everywhere attested by a luxuriant flora and by crops of cereals , fruits , and vegetables . The wheat yield of Michigan in 1866 was 14,740,639 bushels , being an average of 13.8 bushels per acre , valued at $ 37,588,630 , while ...
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... soil , and the adaptation of soil and climate to the production of great quan- tities and large yields of wheat , rye , oats , corn , barley , buckwheat , pota- toes , hay , flax , clover , and grasses , which constitute the principal ...
... soil , and the adaptation of soil and climate to the production of great quan- tities and large yields of wheat , rye , oats , corn , barley , buckwheat , pota- toes , hay , flax , clover , and grasses , which constitute the principal ...
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... soil has been practi- cally extinguished , only a few scattered tracts remaining unappropriated . In the massive commercial and industrial prosperity of these magnificent States we see some of the tangible material results of our ...
... soil has been practi- cally extinguished , only a few scattered tracts remaining unappropriated . In the massive commercial and industrial prosperity of these magnificent States we see some of the tangible material results of our ...
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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...