The Existing Laws of the United States of a General and Permanent Character: And Relating to the Survey and Disposition of the Public Domain, December 1, 1880. Embracing References to Previous Legislation, and Citations of Decisions from the Federal and State Courts and from the Executive Officers of the United States, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1884 - 359 páginas |
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12 Stat act of June Act'g Sec'y adverse claim affidavit application April April 15 April 21 authorized boundary certificate claimant Com'r Commissioner confirmed contest Copp's L. O. Copp's Mg corner of townships Decisions Sec dollars eighteen hundred entitled fees fifth principal meridian filing heirs homestead entry Indian Interior intersection issue July July 19 July 23 June 15 June 26 Land district includes Land Office Lester's L. L. line between ranges line between townships March March 21 mineral lands mining claim Oregon donations party patent payment person placer claim plat pre-emptor principal meridian prior Private land claims public lands purchase range line register and receiver Rep'r residence scrip Secretary Sept settlement settler standard parallel north survey surveyor surveyor-general Territory thence east thence south thence west thereof timber timber-culture entry tion town tract United
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Página 143 - 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...
Página 169 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically...
Página 133 - States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one-quarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State...
Página 80 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Página 134 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts...
Página 134 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner, as the legislatures of the states may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Página 82 - That no certificate shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry : and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry — or if he be dead, his widow : or in case of her death, his heirs or devisee...
Página 90 - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Página 152 - ... an application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession 139 of the vein or lode claim...
Página 134 - Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States...