Report of the Commissioner of General Land Office, Part 1The Office, 1867 - Public lands |
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Page 26 - That whenever any person or association of persons, claim a vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar or copper...
Page 20 - ... in trust for the several use and benefit of the occupants thereof, according to their respective interests; the execution of which trust, as to the disposal of the lots in such town, and the proceeds of the sales thereof, to be conducted under such regulations as may be prescribed by the legislative authority of the State or Territory in which the same may be situated.
Page 35 - An act to create the office of surveyor general of the public lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey, and to make donations to settlers of the said public lands...
Page 21 - In any case in which parties have already founded, or may hereafter desire to found, a city or town on the public lands, it may be lawful for them to cause to be filed with the Recorder for the county in which the same is situated, a plat thereof for not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, describing its exterior boundaries...
Page 36 - Settlement ; but that, if at any Time any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said Lands, the same shall be Purchased only for Us, in our Name, at some public Meeting or Assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that Purpose by the Governor or Commander in Chief of our Colony respectively within which they shall lie...
Page 16 - I have now disposed of the unprofitable landed estates of the crown, and thrown them into the mass of private property ; by which they will come, through the course of circulation, and through the political secretions of the state, into our better understood and better ordered revenues.
Page 48 - D'Abadie, Governor-General, granted to Laclede, in connection with other associates, a charter under the name of " The Louisiana Fur Company," which conferred the exclusive privilege of trading " with the Indians of the Missouri, and those west of the Mississippi above the Missouri, as far north as the River St. Peters.
Page 26 - ... 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 with the laws of the United States.
Page 2 - No possessory action between persons, in any court of the United States, for the recovery of any mining title, or for damages to any such title, shall be affected by the fact that the paramount title to the land in which such mines lie is in the United States ; but each case shall be adjudged by the law of possession.
Page 35 - President may, from time to time, at his discretion, cause the whole to be surveyed, and may assign to each head of a family or single person over twenty-one years of age, eighty acres of land for his or their separate use; and...