Biennial Report, Volume 8

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Page xiv - ... years from the date of such entry; and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within five years thereafter, the person making such entry, or, if he or she be dead, his or her heirs or legal representatives, shall prove by two credible witnesses that he or she or they have planted...
Page 290 - God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all.
Page xv - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Page xv - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page 311 - This Constitution may be altered or amended at any annual meeting of the Society by a vote of twothirds the members present.
Page 234 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather : for the sky is red.
Page 290 - Our outward life requires them not — Then wherefore had they birth ? — : To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth ; To comfort man — to whisper hope, Whene'er his faith is dim, For who so careth for the flowers . Will much more care for him ! THE CARRION CROW.
Page 45 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page xi - ... to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in any county into or through which such railroad may run...
Page 122 - Planting should be undertaken as soon as the frost is out of the ground in the spring, the...

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