Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 11U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - Public lands |
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... cultivation and improvement . The appeals of the several parties named were forwarded with a letter dated February 5 , 1889 , wherein the local officers set out that the said section was " densely timbered and more valuable now for its ...
... cultivation and improvement . The appeals of the several parties named were forwarded with a letter dated February 5 , 1889 , wherein the local officers set out that the said section was " densely timbered and more valuable now for its ...
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... cultivation . Her improve- ments consisted of her frame house , and a fence enclosing about half an acre . She owned four or five head of cattle , which she pastured on the tract each year ; she testified that her house had been ...
... cultivation . Her improve- ments consisted of her frame house , and a fence enclosing about half an acre . She owned four or five head of cattle , which she pastured on the tract each year ; she testified that her house had been ...
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... cultivation , mellow and friable , and that its condition for cropping or tree planting during the second and third years , was far better than any prairie land which he might break or backset during the first or second year . In the ...
... cultivation , mellow and friable , and that its condition for cropping or tree planting during the second and third years , was far better than any prairie land which he might break or backset during the first or second year . In the ...
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... cultivation of fruits and vegetables , and now asks that he may be permitted to retain it , and to that end prays that the amendment be allowed . On this showing you refused the amendment , and now hold claim- ant's second filing for ...
... cultivation of fruits and vegetables , and now asks that he may be permitted to retain it , and to that end prays that the amendment be allowed . On this showing you refused the amendment , and now hold claim- ant's second filing for ...
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... cultivated as required by law . " From this judgment Alderson appeals , charging that you erred : I. In holding that it was necessary for Alderson to cultivate the land in order to reclaim the same by bringing water thereon . II . In ...
... cultivated as required by law . " From this judgment Alderson appeals , charging that you erred : I. In holding that it was necessary for Alderson to cultivate the land in order to reclaim the same by bringing water thereon . II . In ...
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acres act of June action adverse claim affidavit of contest affirmed alleging settlement allowed approved April April 21 Assistant Secretary Chandler attorney August August 13 cash entry certificate claimant Commissioner cultivation December December 19 declaratory statement definite location Department dismissed entryman evidence fact February February 21 filed final proof grant hearing held holding for cancellation homestead entry homestead law improvements indemnity Indian issued January July July 18 July 23 June 15 June 27 Kansas land district Land Office letter local officers lode ment mineral Northern Pacific R. R. Northern Pacific Railroad notice November November 24 October October 27 office decision Pacific Railroad Company parties patent plat prior public lands purchase question record register and receiver rejected relinquishment residence rule Secretary Noble selection September settlement laws settler Stat submitted survey testimony thereof timber culture entry tion tract United withdrawal witnesses
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Page 488 - States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, which homesteads have been made, improved, and used for agricultural purposes, and upon which there have been no valuable mines of gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper discovered, and which...
Page 561 - Where non-mineral land not contiguous to the vein or lode is used or occupied by the proprietor of such vein or lode for mining or milling purposes, such non-adjacent surface ground may be embraced and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same may be patented therewith, subject to the same preliminary requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable to veins or lodes...
Page 29 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page 393 - ... after filing his claim, to commence proceedings, in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 20 - That any settler who has settled, or who shall hereafter settle, on any of the public lands of the United States, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, with the intention of claiming the same under the homestead laws, shall be allowed the same time to file his homestead application and perfect his original entry in the United States Land Office as is now allowed to settlers under the preemption laws...
Page 379 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States...
Page 488 - ... he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he might acquire from the government of the United States should inure, in whole or in part, to the benefit of any person except himself...
Page 530 - That when the lands in the said Territory shall be surveyed under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be and the same are hereby reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in said Territory, and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of the same.
Page 233 - ... his widow, if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, then his minor orphan children, by a guardian duly appointed and officially accredited at the Department of the Interior, shall be entitled to all the benefits...
Page 90 - ... not sold, reserved or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or homestead claim may not have attached, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed...