Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 46U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 |
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36 Stat acres act of February act of June act of March additional entry affidavit allotment allowed amended application approved April April 24 assigned Assistant Secretary August 13 authorized cancellation Carey Act carnotite character charges Circular claim claimant coal lands Commissioner contest court December 29 desert-land disbursing officer entitled entryman February 20 fees filed final proof grant held hereby Homestead act homestead entry homestead laws indemnity Indian Interior irrigation issued July June 17 June 25 land department land district land embraced Land Office lease March 26 ment moneys nonmineral Northern Pacific Railway notice original entry overruled patent payment person preference right prior public lands purchase purposes railroad receipt reclamation register and receiver regulations relinquishment reservation residence Revised Statutes rule scrip selection September 25 serial number settlement settler South Dakota supra survey thereof tion tract United VOGELSANG voucher withdrawal
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Page 111 - No certificate, however, 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...
Page 198 - 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...
Page 273 - 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...
Page 365 - ... with regard thereto; that there is not, to his knowledge, within the limits thereof, any vein or lode of quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver...
Page 583 - It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the Secretary of the Interior to cause and require every contract made by them severally on behalf of the Government, or by their officers under them appointed to make such contracts, to be reduced to writing, and signed by the contracting parties, with their names at the end thereof...
Page 408 - Company," its successors and assigns, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad and telegraph line to the Pacific coast, and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores...
Page 361 - ... thereafter all restrictions as to sale, incumbrance, or taxation of said land shall be removed and said land shall not be liable to the satisfaction of any debt contracted prior to the issuing of such patent: Provided jitrtlter, That until the issuance of fee-simple patents all allottees to whom trust patents shall hereafter be issued shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States: And provided further, That the provisions of this Act shall not extend to any Indians in the...
Page 194 - ... of entry, under the preceding section, of the mines so opened and improved; provided, that when any association of not less than four persons, severally qualified as above provided, shall have expended not less than...
Page 357 - And every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States to whom allotments shall have been made under the provisions of this act, or under any law or treaty, and every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States...
Page 207 - ... in relation to any proceeding, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other matter or thing in which the United States is a party or directly or indirectly interested, before any department, court martial, bureau, officer, or any civil, military, or naval commission whatever...