Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public LandsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - Public lands |
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... witnesses say that the land was used for " pasturage and for cutting hay . " His proof was approved by the local office and the usual certificate of purchase given . On the 8th of March , 1884 , your office suspended the entry and re ...
... witnesses say that the land was used for " pasturage and for cutting hay . " His proof was approved by the local office and the usual certificate of purchase given . On the 8th of March , 1884 , your office suspended the entry and re ...
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... witnesses to the proof submitted . These proofs were as shown by the register's endorsement rejected at the local office September 20 , 1888 , for failure to show sufficient resi- dence , cultivation and improvement . The appeals of the ...
... witnesses to the proof submitted . These proofs were as shown by the register's endorsement rejected at the local office September 20 , 1888 , for failure to show sufficient resi- dence , cultivation and improvement . The appeals of the ...
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... witnesses for protestants . True , the work was done principally on claim No. three , one witness only testifying that he worked on No. four , during the time ( 1878 ) of the alleged abandonment ; but the work was done for all the ...
... witnesses for protestants . True , the work was done principally on claim No. three , one witness only testifying that he worked on No. four , during the time ( 1878 ) of the alleged abandonment ; but the work was done for all the ...
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... witnesses for contestant ordered taken before a commissioner of Montgomery , Alabama , June 27 , 1888. On the day appointed for the taking of said depositions contestant appeared in person and by his attorneys , Samuel Thompson and ...
... witnesses for contestant ordered taken before a commissioner of Montgomery , Alabama , June 27 , 1888. On the day appointed for the taking of said depositions contestant appeared in person and by his attorneys , Samuel Thompson and ...
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... witnesses . The local office overruled claimant's motion and held that " We can see no legal reason why W. E. Brown should not act as attorney for Sharitt . " Claimant appealed and on October 12 , 1888 , your office affirmed the action ...
... witnesses . The local office overruled claimant's motion and held that " We can see no legal reason why W. E. Brown should not act as attorney for Sharitt . " Claimant appealed and on October 12 , 1888 , your office affirmed the action ...
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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...