Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents]., Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900 |
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26 Stat acres act of Congress act of June act of March agricultural Alaska amount received therefrom applications Arizona BINGER HERMANN California Canal Choctaw claims classes of entries Colorado Commissioner commissions of register County Creek Department disposal district of Alaska ending June 30 entries and amount Established by Executive etc.-Continued examination Executive order Final entries Final homestead entries fiscal year ending forest reserves grants Homestead entries commuted Idaho Indian Reservation Interior Island July July 22 land districts Land Office laws miles military reservations mineral lands Missouri River Montana Mountainous Nebraska Nicaragua North Oregon Original homestead entries Pacific park patents payments on homestead pending pension plats Railroad received for reducing reducing testimony register and receiver Relinquished Reservoir River Secretary South Dakota surveyor-general surveys Territory testimony to writing timber timber and stone tion Total cash sales township United Utah vacant public land Washington Wyoming
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Page cxcvii - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and distribute among the people, new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page lxvi - no money on account of pension shall be paid to any person, or to the widow, children, or heirs of any deceased person, who in any manner voluntarily engaged in or aided or abetted the late rebellion against the authority of the United States.
Page 64 - RULE 1.—Contests may be initiated by an adverse party or other person against a party to any entry, filing, or other claim under laws of Congress relating to the public lands, for any sufficient cause affecting the legality or validity of the claim.
Page 120 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 97 - That the President of the United States may from time to time set apart and reserve in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof.
Page lxvi - Statutes, shall be proven in compensation or insurance cases to be legal marriages according to the law of the place where the parties resided at the time of marriage or at the time when the right to...
Page cxx - An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes...
Page 377 - That said public park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practicable, to make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide for the preservation, from injury or spoliation, of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition.
Page 101 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Hou»e of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That...
Page cxcvi - Any act of congress which plainly and directly tends to enhance the respect and love of the citizen for the institutions of his country, and to quicken and strengthen his motives to defend them, and which Is germane to, and intimately connected with, and appropriate to, the exercise of some one or all of the powers granted by congress, must be valid.