Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting Report Upon the Mineral Resources of the States and Teritories West of the Rocky Mountains |
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Page 223 - That whenever, after the passage of this act, any person or persons shall, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injure or damage the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage. SBC.
Page 221 - and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to he free and open to exploration and occupation by all citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become citizens, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and subject also to local
Page 236 - after the first day of November until the first day of May following, if recorded after said first day of November. But upon all claims located between the first day of May and the first day of November following, labor to the amount of eight dollars per claim shall be expended toward
Page 221 - That whenever any person or association of persons claim a vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper, having previously occupied and improved the same according to the local custom or rules of miners in the district where the same
Page 223 - the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courte, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and tin- right of way for the
Page 223 - designate and set apart such portions of the said lands as are clearly agricultural lands, which lands shall thereafter be subject to pre-emption and sale as other public lands of the United States, and subject to all the laws and regulations applicable to the same. 2.—PERMANENT TITLES TO MINERAL LANDS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Page 249 - where such claim is located, when not in conflict with the laws of the United States or the laws of this Territory. SEC. 10. This act to take effect and to be in force from and after its approval by the governor. Approved February 4,
Page 15 - and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds with the sordid cry of gold ! gold ! gold ! while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but
Page 222 - character of the vein exposed ; and upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, together with the cost of such survey, plat, and notice, and giving satisfactory evidence that said diagram and notice have been
Page 296 - unpleasant, being destitute of clothing and most of the necessaries of life, wild meat being our principal subsistence. I am, reverend father, your strange, but real friend and Christian brother." As Jedediah Smith's letter shows, he had been here before. At that time he had been required to give an account of himself, but