Circular from the General Land Office: Showing the Manner of Proceeding to Obtain Title to Public Lands Under the Homestead, Desert Land, and Other Laws. Issued January 25, 1904U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 - 339 pages |
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21 Stat act entitled act of Congress act of March affidavit aforesaid America in Congress Appendix application approved March August 30 benefit bona fide bona fide purchasers cents per acre certificate claim claimant Commissioner Congress assembled contest cultivation declared deposit desert-land District of Alaska dollars eighteen hundred enacted enter entitled An act fees filing final proof grant Greer County hereafter hereby heretofore homestead entry homestead laws House of Representatives improvements Interior irrigation issued June 14 land district land embraced Land Office legal subdivisions Muscogee or Creek nonmineral Northern Pacific Railroad notice oath paid party patent person preemption laws prescribed prior proof and payment provided further public lands purposes railroad company register and receiver register or receiver residence Revised Statutes Secretary Senate and House settlement survey Territory Territory of Dakota thereof thereto timber timber-culture tion township tract of land United witnesses
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Page 128 - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 180 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 163 - An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,' approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 145 - Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the State or Territory where such land is located...
Page 116 - 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...
Page 189 - Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered...
Page 185 - Territory, which shall have filed, or may hereafter file, with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same...
Page 163 - That the President of the United States may from time to time set apart and reserve in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof.
Page 53 - That in all patents for lands hereafter taken up under any of the land laws of the United States or on entries or claims validated by this act, west of the one hundredth meridian, it shall be expressed that there is reserved from the lands in said patent described a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States.
Page 180 - Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws...