Yearbook of the United States Department of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 - Agriculture |
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Page 352 - 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 593 - ... the taking of such meteorological observations as may be necessary to establish and record the climatic conditions of the United States or as are essential for the proper execution of the foregoing duties.
Page 602 - L., 1895.] (AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page 593 - ... collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation, the reporting of temperature and rainfall conditions for the cotton...
Page 718 - ... the actual market value or wholesale price of such merchandise as bought and sold in usual wholesale quantities, at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country from whence imported...
Page 351 - ... to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become such...
Page 349 - York" shall mean any citizen of the United States or any person who has declared his intention of becoming a citizen who is and has been domiciled within the state for one year or more. 4 " Commission " shall mean the advisory commission for the rehabilitation of physically handicapped persons.
Page 613 - Provided, That no such animal shall be admitted free unless pure bred of a recognized breed, and duly registered in the book of record established for that breed...
Page 67 - ... the design of the institution, in fulfillment of the injunction of the constitution, is to afford thorough instruction in agriculture, and the natural sciences connected therewith; to effect that object most completely, the institution shall combine physical with intellectual education, and shall be a high seminary of learning, in which the graduate of the common school can commence, pursue and finish a course of study, terminating in thorough theoretic and practical instruction in those sciences...
Page 349 - States or has filed his declaration of intention to become such, and who is not the proprietor of more than 160 acres of land in any state or territory, is entitled to enter one-quarter section (160 acres) or less quantity of unappropriated public land under the homestead laws.