Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 33U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 |
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act of June act of March Acting Secretary Ryan adverse claim alleged allotments allowed appeal application for patent approved April April 28 assignment attorney August authority cancellation certificate claimant Commissioner Congress court departmental decision disposed district of Alaska entitled entryman fact February 28 field notes filed final proof forest reserve hearing heirs held homestead entry homestead law Interior irrigation issued July July 26 June 17 Klamath River land department land district land laws Land Office lode March 12 ment mineral mining claim North Dakota Northern Pacific Northern Pacific Railroad Northern Pacific Railway notice office decision parties pending placer placer mining plat prior protest public lands purchase purposes question Railroad Company record register and receiver rejected relinquishment residence Revised Statutes rule scrip Secretary Hitchcock selection settlement settler Shoshone Stat submitted supra survey thereof thereto timber tion township tract United
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Page 146 - ... 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, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations.
Page 146 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface...
Page 526 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 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 147 - ... it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent; upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 146 - States surveyor general that five hundred dollars' worth of labor has been expended, or improvements made upon the claim, by himself or grantors ; that the plat is correct ; with such further description by such reference to natural objects or permanent monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish an accurate description, to be incorporated in the patent. At the expiration of the sixty days of publication the claimant shall file his affidavit, showing that a plat and notice have been posted...
Page 145 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location.
Page 619 - SEC. 4. That any railroad company desiring to secure the benefits of this act shall, within twelve months after the location of any section of twenty miles of its road, if the same be upon surveyed lands, and, if upon unsurveyed lands, within twelve months after the survey thereof by the United States, file with the register of the land office for the district where such land is located a profile of its road...
Page 526 - ... required for the support of a family upon the lands in question; also of the charges which shall be made per acre upon the said entries, and upon lands in private ownership which may be irrigated by the waters of the said irrigation project, and the number of annual installments, not exceeding ten, in which such charges shall be paid and the time when such payments shall commence. The said charges shall be determined with a view of returning to the reclamation fund the estimated cost of construction...
Page 189 - That where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and shall show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse claim...
Page 138 - It shall not be lawful for any person appointed after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, as an officer, clerk or employee in any of the departments, to act as counsel, attorney, or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States, which was pending in either of said departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employee...