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... Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office - Page 34by United States. General Land Office - 1873Full view - About this book
| David Dykins Oliver - Alpena County (Mich.) - 1903 - 238 pages
...passed a homestead law, by which any person, male or female, being the head of a family, or a male twenty-one years of age, and a citizen of the United States, or had declared his intention to become a citizen, and who had always been faithful to the government,... | |
| Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 714 pages
...entitled to purchase swamp land ; and, to constitute one such an applicant, he must have been over twenty-one years of age, and a citizen of the United States, or have filed his declaration to become such — a very simple qualification. It was the duty of the board... | |
| New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration - Louisiana Purchase Exposition - 1904 - 332 pages
...same for a continuous period of five years. A homestead entryman must be the head of a family or over twenty-one years of age and a citizen of the United States or one who has declared his or her intention of becoming such, and he or she must not be the owner of... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1166 pages
...entitled to purchase swamp land; and, to constitute one such an applicant, he must have been over 21 years of age, and a citizen of the United States," or have filed his declaration to become such— a very simple qualification. It was the duty of the board of... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - Indians of North America - 1907 - 1358 pages
...legal subdivisions, as made by the regular United States survey. Entry is confined to surveyed lands; to such as are vacant, not otherwise appropriated,...associations may purchase. If an individual, he must be 21 years of age and a citizen of the United States, or have declared his intention to become such citizen.... | |
| Charles Harmonas Shamel - Mining law - 1907 - 670 pages
...district of the lands subject to sale at the district land office at ; and I do solemnly swear that I am years of age and a citizen of the United States (or have declared my intention to become a citizen of the United States); that I have never, either as an individual... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 930 pages
...of double minimum lands. Any person being the head of a family, a widow, or an unmarried man, being twenty-one years of age and a citizen of the United States, or having declared his intention of becoming a citizen, was entitled to pre-empt such a tract of land... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - Public lands - 1907 - 764 pages
...1907. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Affidavit of applicant. I, , of post-office, do solemnly swear that I am years of age <» and a citizen of the United States, or have lawfully declared my Intention to become such ; that I am not the owner of more than 1(50 acres of... | |
| George Purcell Costigan - Mining law - 1908 - 826 pages
...the lands subject to sale at the district land office at ; and 1 do solemnly swear that I am ...:.. years of age and a citizen of the United States (or have declared riy intention to become a citizen of the United States) ; that I have never, either as an individual... | |
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