Report of the Secretary of State to the Governor ... of the Transactions of the Land Department1877 - Iowa |
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... entitled to 500,000 acres of lands . These lands were granted by act of Sept. 4 , 1841 , for the purposes of internal improvements , but the State was ad- mitted , by act of Congress of Dec. 28 , 1846 , with a provision in her ...
... entitled to 500,000 acres of lands . These lands were granted by act of Sept. 4 , 1841 , for the purposes of internal improvements , but the State was ad- mitted , by act of Congress of Dec. 28 , 1846 , with a provision in her ...
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... entitled to the patent , and if thus entitled by assignment from the original purchaser , setting forth fully such assignment . " It frequently occurs that the certificate of final payment is not pre- sented for patent until long after ...
... entitled to the patent , and if thus entitled by assignment from the original purchaser , setting forth fully such assignment . " It frequently occurs that the certificate of final payment is not pre- sented for patent until long after ...
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... entitled to except 122.06 acres . These lands are under the control and management of the Board of Regents of the State University at Iowa City . For the laws regulating the sale of these lands and their manage- ment , see chap . 2 ...
... entitled to except 122.06 acres . These lands are under the control and management of the Board of Regents of the State University at Iowa City . For the laws regulating the sale of these lands and their manage- ment , see chap . 2 ...
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... entitled " An Act to relinquish to the State of Iowa the lands reserved for Salt Springs therein . Approved May 27 , 1852. This act gave the State the fee - simple title to said lands , and provided that the same be disposed of by ...
... entitled " An Act to relinquish to the State of Iowa the lands reserved for Salt Springs therein . Approved May 27 , 1852. This act gave the State the fee - simple title to said lands , and provided that the same be disposed of by ...
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... entitled by the apportionment of the census of 1860 , in the following terms : SEC . 2. That the land shall not be selected in less than quarter sec- tions . That where there are public lands in a State subject to private entry at ...
... entitled by the apportionment of the census of 1860 , in the following terms : SEC . 2. That the land shall not be selected in less than quarter sec- tions . That where there are public lands in a State subject to private entry at ...
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20 miles limit 40 n hf acres act of Congress act of March Amy Christ approved and certified Assembly C. P. Searle Cash excess Cedar Rapids City & St City Railroad Company clerk Commissioner construction copy of patent COUNTY-CONTINUED Dubuque & Sioux e hf Falls & Sioux field notes filed Governor hf of nw Humboldt indemnity Interior Iowa Falls July June Land Office lands granted Laura Hill located March 22 McGregor & Missouri Missouri River Railroad Missouri River Railway Moines Valley Railroad Monona nw qr O'Brien county Osceola county overflowed lands Palo Alto Paul Railroad Company plats Pocahontas Raccoon fork Range Rapids & Missouri River Railroad Company River Railway Company road school lands scrip se of ne se of sw Secor Secretary selected Sept Sioux City Railroad sold sw of nw sw qr swamp and overflowed swamp lands Tama Total township tracts w hf Woodbury
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Page 107 - The survey and description thereof, together with a certified copy of the order made constituting the same a cemetery, must be recorded in the recorder's office of the county in which the same is located.
Page 70 - ... and included within a continuous length of twenty miles of each of said roads, may be sold ; and when the Governor of said State shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior that any twenty continuous miles of any of said roads...
Page 93 - Company, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railroad from a point at or near the foot of Main Street, South McGregor, in said state, in a westerly direction, by the most practicable route, on or near the fortythird parallel of north latitude, until it shall intersect the said road running from Sioux City to the Minnesota state line, in the county of O'Brien, in said state...
Page 15 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 20 - Territory, one equal moiety, in alternate sections, of the public lands (remaining unsold and not otherwise disposed of, incumbered or appropriated), in a strip five miles in width on each side of said river, to be selected within said Territory by an agent or agents to be appointed by the Governor thereof, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
Page 15 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...
Page 69 - River; from the city of Dubuque to a point on the Missouri River near Sioux City, with a branch from the mouth of the Tete des Morts, to the nearest point on said road, to be completed as soon as the main road is completed to that point, every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width, on each side of said roads.
Page 69 - ... every alternate section of land, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of each of said roads.
Page 30 - Second, that seventy-two sections of land shall be set apart and reserved for the use and support of a state university, to be selected by the governor of said state, subject to the approval of the commissioner of the general land office, and to be appropriated and applied in such manner as the legislature of said state may prescribe for the purpose aforesaid, but for no other purpose.
Page 99 - ... acts of the United States, shall be permitted at any time within three months after such restoration, and under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, to purchase not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres in extent of the same by legal subdivisions, at the price of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and to receive patents therefor.