 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 870 pages
...that on the tenth day of February, 1881, under the provisions of the act of Congress of May 20, 1862, entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the United States issued to one Edward J. Bradford its patent for the... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 868 pages
...act of September, 1841, granting pre-emption rights, and the acts amendatory thereof, and of the act entitled, 'An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,' approved May 20, 1862, shall be and the same are hereby extended to all other lands on the line of... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 796 pages
...said SW Calahan, he was the owner of an inceptive homestead estate, entered under the Act of Congress entitled " An Act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain/' approved May 20th, 1862, in and to a tract of land (adjoining the said mortgaged premises), containing... | |
 | Roy L. Prosterman, Timothy M. Hanstad - Law - 1999 - 344 pages
...Brow Lodge No. 82 v. Toscano, 257 Cal. App. 2d 22 (1968). 43 CIVIL CODE OF FRANCE art. 544 (1994). 44 An Act to Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain [The Homestead Act], sess. II, ch. 75, secs. 1-2 (May 20, 1862). restitution process, which by its... | |
 | Gary Noy - History - 1999 - 492 pages
...1862 The United States government promoted the settlement of the western lands with the passage of "An Act to secure Homesteads to actual settlers on the Public Domain, " more commonly known as the Homestead Act of 1862. Under this legislation, adult "citizens of the... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...History, 5:4 (Winter 1973). 449-74. 15. Thirty-seventh Congress. Session II. (Statute II.) Chap. LXXV. — An Act to secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain. Approved. May 20. 1862. In US Laws, statutes. The Statutes at Large of the United States of America,... | |
 | John R. Short - History - 2001 - 266 pages
...simple: I of do hereby apply to enter, under the provision of the act of Congress approved May 20, 1862, entitled ' An act to secure Homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,' the of Section in Township of Range, containing acres. Over 10 million acres were allocated under this... | |
 | John Martin Campbell - Photography - 2001 - 204 pages
...the title of the act. The first of these was the so-called Homestead Act of 1862. (officially titled "An Act to Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain"). This is the act that is commonly called to mind by both avocational and professional historians when... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...farmers acquired more land under the Homestead Act in the 20th centun* than in the 1 9th. CHAP. LXXV.— AN ACT TO SECURE HOMESTEADS TO ACTUAL SETTLERS ON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress... | |
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