Amending the Homestead Laws: Hearings Before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, on Various Bills Proposing Amendments to the Homestead Laws. January 31 and February 5, 1912U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 60 pages |
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20 acres acres ACTING CHAIRMAN administrative alfalfa amend amount appeal bank bill Canadian law cancellation centum claim coal character committee complied Congress construction construed cost default DENNETT entitled entryman farm unit FERRIS final proof final water-right certificate five five-eighths going Government ground hereinafter homestead entry homestead law installments interest Interior Interior Department irrigable area kind KINKAID Land Office lien live Manitoba matter ment mineral MONDELL nonmineral one-half opinion paid pass patent or final payments period present law public domain public lands questions of law RAKER reason reclaimed and cultivated reclamation act reclamation charge reclamation entry reclamation fund reclamation holding reclamation projects Reclamation Service referred regard regulations relinquishment requirements residence and cultivation Secretary FISHER sell settlers six months South Dakota special agents statute suggestion Suppose thereof thing tion tract water power water-right application winter months
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Page 58 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 23 - The said charges shall be determined with a view of returning to the reclamation fund the estimated cost of construction of the project...
Page 23 - Service as he may deem advisable on each reclamation project, to whom shall be paid all sums due on reclamation entries or water rights, and the officials so designated shall keep a record for the information of the public of the sums paid and the amount due at any time on account of any entry made or water right purchased under the Reclamation Act; and the Secretary of the Interior shall make provision for furnishing copies of duly authenticated records of entries upon...
Page 48 - Where satisfactory final proof has heretofore been made for lands entered under the nonmineral laws, the claimant will be entitled to a patent without reservation, except in those cases where the Government is in possession of sufficient evidence to justify the belief that the land is, and was before making final proof, known to be chiefly valuable for coal, in which case hearing will be ordered. If. at said hearing, it is proven that the land is chiefly valuable for coal...
Page 57 - An act to authorize the Government to contract for impounding, storing, and carriage of water, and to cooperate in the construction and use of reservoirs and canals under reclamation projects...
Page 22 - That every patent and water-right certificate issued under this act shall expressly reserve to the United States a prior lien on the land patented or for which water right is certified, together with all water rights appurtenant or belonging thereto, superior to all other liens, claims, or demands whatsoever for the payment of all sums due or to become due to the United States or its successors in control of the...
Page 22 - States free of all encumbrance, subject to the right of the defaulting debtor or any mortgagee, lien holder, judgment debtor, or subsequent purchaser to redeem the land within one year after the notice of such default shall have been given by payment of all moneys due, with eight per centum interest and cost.
Page 23 - ... cost. And the United States, at its option, acting through the Secretary of the Interior, may cause land to be sold at any time after such failure to redeem, and from the proceeds of the sale there shall be paid into the reclamation fund all moneys due, with interest as herein provided, and costs. The balance of the proceeds, if any, shall be the property of the defaulting debtor or his assignee: Provided, That in case of sale after failure...
Page 47 - ... selector. or entryman to a hearing for the purpose of determining the character of the land located, selected, or entered by him. Such locator, selector, or entryman who. has heretofore made or shall hereafter make final proof showing good faith and satisfactory compliance with the law under which his land is claimed shall be entitled to a patent without reservation unless at the time of such final proof and entry it shall be shown that the land is chiefly valuable for coal.
Page 41 - ... may, at any time before the issue of letters" patent, cancel the entry or withdraw from its application any portion of the land entered for, but, where the land is required for the location or construction of works necessary 'to the development of any water power, only in so far as the land necessary for that purpose.