| Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 890 pages
...claim. Ibid. § 59. Right of purchase under act of 18C6.— The act of congress of July 20, 1866, " granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes," gives the right of purchase of a mining claim, to a silver or gold-bearing lode... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 978 pages
...condition of affairs, the Congress of the United States, on the 26th of July, 1866, passed the act " granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes," the ninth section of which reads as follows: " That whenever, by priority of possession,... | |
| Henry Norris Copp - Land tenure - 1890 - 724 pages
...rights conferred by the act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty six, entitled "An Act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes," shall be abrogated by this act ; and all patents granted shall be subject to any... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 860 pages
...only the United States can take advantage. Under the act of July 26, 1866, 14 Stat. 251, c. 262, " granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands," no right could be acquired to any portion of the public lands until the actual taking possession of... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 780 pages
...only the United States can take advantage. Under the act of July 26, 1866, 14 Stat. 251, c. 262, " granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands," no right could be acquired to any portion of the public lands until the actual taking possession of... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1891 - 782 pages
...Oregon §• California Railroad Co., 663. 20. Under the act of July 26, 1866, 14 Stat. 251, c. 262, " granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands," no right could be acquired to any portion of the public lands until the actual taking possession of... | |
| California. Legislature - California - 1893 - 326 pages
...that in its title, mines are not mentioned, nor the purpose of the Act disclosed. It reads: "An Act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes." The explanation of it is an interesting fact in the history of congressional legislation.... | |
| Gold mines and mining - 1893 - 666 pages
...that in its title, mines are not mentioned, nor the purpose of the Act disclosed. It reads: "An Act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes." The explanation of it is an interesting fact in the history of congressional legislation.... | |
| Clesson Selwyne Kinney - Irrigation - 1894 - 854 pages
...Cal. 288, where the Court held that the provisions of the Acts of Congress, approved July z6th, 1866, "granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes," and the Act amendatory thereof, approved July 9th, 1870, and the "Act to promote... | |
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