...26, 1866, ordered that "the mineral lands of the public domain, both surveyed and unsurveyed," were " to be free and open to exploration and occupation by all citizens of the United States, and those declaring their intention to become citizens, subject to such regnlations as may be prescribed by law,"...

...ordered that "the mineral lands of the public domain, both surveyed and uusurveyed," were " to be freo and open to exploration and occupation by all citizens of the United States, and those declaring their intention to become citizens, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law,"...

...open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in...

...Congress of July 26, 1866 (14 Stats. 251), provided that " the mineral lands of the public domain * * are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and occupation." What lands were designated by the act as mineral, appears in sections 2 and 10, as "a vein or lode...

...1. The mineral lauds of the public domain, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to 1i0 free and open to exploration and occupation by all...the United States, and those who have declared their intentions to become citizens, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and subject...

...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 such :" which was agreed to — yeas 22, nays 17. us follows : YEAS — Messrs. Brown. Chandler, Clark,...

...occupy and purchase any of the lands of the United States containing mineral deposits, is confined to citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such. The defendants, being aliens, are not within the purview of the law, and by an almost necessary...

...mining law of the United States even limits the transfer of mineral lands belonging to the Union to "citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such," while the Mexican mining laws allow foreigners to own and develop mines on the нате terms...

...Stat., the public lands of the United States are only open to exploration, occupation, and purchase by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such. In Manuel v. Wulff, 162 US 505, 38 L. -ed. 532, 14 Sup. Ct* Rep. 651, this court sustained the...

...the Revised Statutes, the right to purchase mineral deposits In the public lands was conferred upon "citizens of the United States and those who have declared their Intention to become such." Section 2321, however, In regulating the mode by which the fact of citizenship should be established,...