Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 45U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - Public lands |
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38 Stat acres act of February act of June act of March additional entry affidavit Alaska allotment allowed amended appeal approved April assignment Assistant Secretary August 18 authorized canceled charges claimant coal lands Commissioner Congress contest decision deposits desert-land entry District of Alaska enlarged homestead entered entitled entryman farm unit February 19 filed final proof Gastineau Channel grant heirs held hereby homestead act homestead entry homestead laws improvements Indian Interior irrigation issued July June 17 June 25 land district land embraced land laws Land Office lease lessee lessor March 28 ment mineral nonmineral Northern Pacific Northern Pacific Railway notice October 20 patent payment person plat preference right prior public lands purchase purposes Railway Company record register and receiver regulations relinquishment reservation residence selection settlement settler submitted supra survey thereafter thereof thereto timber tion township tract unsurveyed water-right application
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Page 405 - That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 441 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into full force and effect.
Page 543 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 231 - All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
Page 158 - And the better to accomplish the object of this act, namely, to promote the public interest and welfare by the construction of said railroad and telegraph line, and keeping the same in working order, and to secure to the government at all times (but particularly in time of war) the use and benefits of the same for postal, military and other purposes, Congress may, at any time, having due regard for the rights of said companies named herein, add to, alter, amend, or repeal this act.
Page 333 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days 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 543 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 258 - That the Indians or other persons in said district shall not be disturbed in the possession of any lands actually in their use or occupation or now claimed by them, but the terms under which such persons may acquire title to such lands is reserved for future legislation by Congress...
Page 290 - Act which may be acquired by descent, will, judgment, or decree may be held for two years and not longer after its acquisition : Provided.
Page 281 - States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any...