Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeGeneral Land Office., 1873 - Land use |
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12 south 12 west 28 east A. M. Jones act of Congress Amador County appropriation approved Calaveras County claims clerks Commissioner contract district Dorado County El Dorado County ending June 30 exterior boundaries field-notes fiscal year ending George Gold Placer Gold Quartz grant incidental expenses Indian reservation John July 12 June 17 June 24 Land-Office lines of townships lode meridian miles mill-site mineral lands Mining Company Montana Mount Diablo Nevada County number of acres office-work patent Placer County plats private land-claims public lands public surveys range 11 range 3 east range 8 west River Sept settlers Silver Siskiyou County special deposits standard parallel Stat subdivisional lines subdivisions of townships surveyor SURVEYOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE Surveys completed Total Township 11 north townships 13 tract transmitted Trinity County Tuolumne County United States Surveyor-General unsurveyed west 23 William Minto WILLIS DRUMMOND
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Page 16 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 24 - An act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed...
Page 34 - ... and pay for the lands filed upon within one year from the time prescribed for filing their respective claims ; and upon failure to file the proper notice, or to pay for the land within the required period, the same shall be subject to entry by any other qualified applicant.
Page 37 - ... with regard thereto; that there is not, to his knowledge, within the limits thereof any vein or lode of quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver...
Page 102 - In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy, with respect to it, guaranties equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
Page 26 - An act to provide for the survey of the public lands in California, the granting of pre-emption rights, and for other purposes," as provides that none other than township lines shall be surveyed where the lands are mineral, is hereby repealed.
Page 225 - An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits," to Minnesota and Oregon, and for other purposes.
Page 34 - An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to encourage the growth of timber on the western prairies,'" approved , 187-, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am the head of a family (or over twenty-one years of age), and a citizen of the United States (or have declared my intention to become such); that...
Page 34 - States, or who has declared his intention to become such, or any association of persons severally qualified as above, shall, upon application to the register of the proper land office, have the right to enter, by legal subdivisions, any quantity of vacant coal lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated or reserved by competent authority...
Page 34 - March, eighteen hundred and seventy.three, division of the land claimed may be made by legal subdivisions, to include, as near as may be, the valuable improvements of the respective parties. The Commissioner of the General Land Office is authorized to issue all needful rules and regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this and the four preceding sections.