Hearing ordered to determine the status
of an alleged adverse settlement claim...... 473
A pre-emption claim at the date of definite
location excepts the land covered thereby
from the grant to the Union Pacific........ 553
If the preference right of purchase under
a pre-emption claim exists at definite loca-
tion the land is excepted thereby, though
actual habitation may have ceased prior
thereto....
Land excepted from, by existing entry
when the right of the road attached.............
Precedence as against a, is accorded a
homestead entry made on the day when the
map of definite location was filed
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The act of 1857 allowing 5 per cent. to the
States on sales of former Indian lands only
applicable to the States then in the Union 712
The declaration common to the acts ad-
mitting the States that "all laws not locally
inapplicable shall have the same force and
effect within that State as in the other States
of the Union" does not enlarge a specific
grant.......
The payment of the 5 per cent. to Kan
sas was limited to sales of public lands, and
cannot be allowed on sale of Indian trust
lands.....
Secretary of the Interior.
See Land Department.
Settlement.
The basis of pre-emption...
Should give notice of the settler's claim.. 372
On segregated land confers no right of
pre-emption......
Through forcible intrusion confers no
rights...
Claim of a pre-emptor who has exhausted
his right of no avail..
In legal parlance the singular embraces
the plural, and the plural the singular..549, 617
Under contract with supposed owner not