...surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and occupation by all citizens of the United States, and thos'e who have declared their intention to become citizens, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and subject also to local custom...

...surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be 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 the local customs...

...qualifications of voters), the words 'white male inhabitant" and insert the words : " male citizen of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become euch;" which was agreed to — yeas 22, nays 17, as follows: YEAS — Messrs. Brown, Chandler, Clark,...

...July 26, 1866, Section 1, declares that the mineral lands of the public domain shall be free to all citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such. The effect of CB No. 11, would be to grant the privilege to a class of foreigners, clearly excluded...

...year there shall be an election of one mayor for said city and one alderman for each ward. Sec. 2. All citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, of twenty-one years of age, who shall have been actual residents of said city six months next...

...proposed as an amendment to strike out tho words [i white male inhabitant, " and to insert "male citizen of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become inch." The amendment was agreed to, and also other amendments. When the hill was reported to the Senate,...

...19th, the Conference Committee reported, in lieu of the Senate amendment, the following clause : " All citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, and who are otherwise described and qualified under the fifth section of the Act of Congress...

...surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be 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 the local customs...

...office, so that, instead of ." every white male inhaMlani," it should read " every free male citizen of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such." Mr. Reverdy Johnson at once declared that "the effect of the amendment was to admit to the elective...

...deposits in lands belonging to tho United States, both surveyed and u DSU rv eyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and...occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States und those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and...