INDEX. SUBJECT. BOUNTY-LAND WARRANTS AND SCRIP. Section. Page. Bounty lands for soldiers in certain wars.. Certain classes of persons in the Mexican war, their widows, &c., entitled to forty acres.. Persons not entitled under preceding sections. What classes of persons entitled under section 314 without regard to length of service. Former evidence of right to bounty land to be received in certain cases. Allowance of time of service for distance from home to place of muster or discharge.. Former evidence of right to a pension to be received in certain cases on application for Death of claimant after establishing right, and before issuing of warrant. Sales, mortgages, letters of attorney, &c., made before issue of warrant, to be void. Certificates of location or scrip to issue in satisfaction of confirmed private land claims Issuance and location of judicial scrip in lieu of confirmed private land claims. Certain lands located in good faith by claims arising under treaty of September 30, 1854, Scrip may be issued to owners of military land-warrants, issued by the United States in Secretary of the Interior may, upon proof, issue scrip in satisfaction of certain outstand- 351 127 DESERT LANDS. Desert lands may be purchased. Definition of desert lands Declaration. Right to use water. Water on public Localities to which the law applies Note.. 161 EASEMENTS. Navigable rivers public highways. Banks of streams not navigable, how held If lands granted for right of way are not used, &c., to revert to the Government Vested rights to use of water for mining, &c.; right of way for canals. Patents, pre-emptions, and homesteads, subject to vested and accrued water-rights. SUBJECT. Section. Page. EASEMENTS-Continued. Right of way, materials, station-grounds, &c., granted to railroads 448 170 Rights of several railroads through cañón, pass, or defile. Crossing at grade. Wagon- Profile of road claiming benefits, when to be filed. Disposal of lands subject to right of 451 171 452 171 Right to alter, amend, &c. Use of public domain, &c., by telegraph company Use of materials from public lands. These rights not transferable.. Government to have priority in transmission of messages. Government entitled to purchase lines Acceptance of obligations to be filed.. Penalty for refusal to transmit dispatches... Timber lands to be patented subject to accrued right of way and water-rights GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Commissioner of the General Land Office.. Duties of the Commissioner... Commissioner to have custody of seal, books, records, &c Commissioner to make plats and furnish information when required by the President or Commissioner to perform duties of surveyor-general when surveying district is discon- Appeals from decisions of district land officers and Commissioner in pre-emption contests. Commissioner has power to regulate costs of survey and publication in mineral cases Commissioner to fix maximum price of reservations restored to market. Commissioner authorized to allow erroneous description in entries to be corrected Commissioner shall prescribe regulations for sale of town lots Commissioner shall approve all contracts for surveys Commissioner's instructions deemed part of contract for surveying Commissioner shall fix the price of public surveys and instruct surveyor-general how to Commissioner shall issue instructions for surveys under deposit system warrants Commissioner shall cause bounty-land warrants to be located free of expense.. Commissioner shall prescribe regulations and terms for geodetic surveys in Oregon and Commissioner may order certain lands into market without Presidential proclamation.. Commissioner may make regulations for execution of public land laws.. Commissioner to perform duties of recorder of land titles for Missouri. Commissioner shall issue patents for public lands and private land claims Commissioner to issue patents on claims heretofore confirmed Fee-simple to pass in all grants of land to States and Territories where lands are of Officers, clerks, and employés of General Land Office not to be interested in purchase of 10 10 10 10 10 10 12 12 12 13 13 13 13 Grant of swamp and overflowed lands to certain States to aid in construction of levees, &c. 686 34 6667 42 43 44 SUBJECT. GENERAL GRANTS TO STATES AND TERRITORIES-Continued. Section. Page. Secretary of Interior to make lists of such lands for transmission to the governors of the Legal subdivisions, mostly wet and unfit for cultivation. Indemnity to States where lands have been sold by United States.. Patents to issue for swamp lands to purchasers and locators prior to issuing of patents Selections of swamp and overflowed lands confirmed.. Public lands, not mineral, granted to each State for purpose of establishing agricultural Agricultural-college scrip to be issued, when. Proceeds of sales, how applied. Assignees Moneys from sale of land and scrip to be invested, and interest applied to support of col- Conditions of grant, assent of States. Diminution of fund to be made up by State. An- Settlements before survey on sections 16 or 36, deficiencies thereof.. Selections to supply deficiencies of school lands Fee-simple to pass in all grants of land to States and Territories, when Certain States to be paid 10 per cent. on net proceeds of sales of public lands therein, &c After deducting said 10 per cent., &c., residue to be divided among States, &c., of Union, Net proceeds of sales of public lands payable at the Treasury half-yearly, to whom Length of continuation of this grant.. Not less than $150,000 to be appropriated annually for surveys Amount due on State stocks held by United States in trust to be withheld from States in HOMESTEADS. Who may enter certain unappropriated lands. 212 Mode of procedure 213 Pre-emption filing changed to homestead entry 214 Homestead settlers allowed same time as pre-emptors to file application for lands 215 Certificate and patent, when given and issued. Proof of residence, &c. 216 When rights inure to the benefit of infant children 217 Homestead entries of insane persons confirmed in certain cases. 218 Persons in military or naval service, when and before whom to make affidavit 219 When lands entered for homesteads revert to Government Lands covered by relinquished homestead claims subject to entry at once. 227 Party contesting homestead entry allowed thirty days after notice of cancellation to Homestead right extended to Indians who sever their tribal relations. 241 242 Chiefs, &c., of Stockbridge Munsees, homestead rights of. 243 90 91 SUBJECT. HOMESTEADS-Continued. Section. Page. Exemption of homestead of Stockbridge Munsees. Stockbridge Munsees becoming citizens 244 245 Unsold lands of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, how opened for homesteads. 246 Entry of 160 acres of double-minimum lands allowed after March 3, 1879. Additional entry 251 Claimants or their assignees may purchase lands at $1.25 per acre in certain cases Lands within railroad grants re-entered by claimants after abandonment. Settlers may convey lands for certain public purposes.. 252 253 254 255 When land office may be annexed to adjacent district by the President. Change of boundaries of land districts, and establishment of additional districts for sale of MINERAL LANDS. Subjects upon which miners may make regulations. Conditions same are subject to. Patents for mineral lands, how obtained. Authority for agents to make applications and Vested rights to use of water for mining, &c.; right of way for canals Patents, pre-emptions, and homesteads subject to vested and accrued water-rights. Mineral lands, in which no valuable mines are discovered, open to homesteads. Additional land districts and officers, power of the President to provide. Grants of lands to States or corporations not to include mineral lands |