Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1879 - Public lands |
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... name and symbol . Complete returns of the resurvey embracing maps and field notes in triplicate were submitted to this office by the surveyor on November 30 , 1878 , which , upon examination , were approved , and copies were furnished ...
... name and symbol . Complete returns of the resurvey embracing maps and field notes in triplicate were submitted to this office by the surveyor on November 30 , 1878 , which , upon examination , were approved , and copies were furnished ...
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... name , obtain title to 160 acres of public land , the second or twentieth wife may do the same , and the so - called husband would thus obtain , in fact , for his own use and benefit the control of that number of tracts of public land ...
... name , obtain title to 160 acres of public land , the second or twentieth wife may do the same , and the so - called husband would thus obtain , in fact , for his own use and benefit the control of that number of tracts of public land ...
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... name , acting independently of the pre - emption filing of her hus- band , a widow should not be allowed to make a homestead on land embraced in said filing until it shall appear satisfactorily that the heirs do not intend to prove up ...
... name , acting independently of the pre - emption filing of her hus- band , a widow should not be allowed to make a homestead on land embraced in said filing until it shall appear satisfactorily that the heirs do not intend to prove up ...
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... name of the applicant ; the kind of entry , whether homestead or pre - emption ; a description of the land , and the names and residences of the witnesses as stated in the application . ( See Form No. 2. ) To save expense , the register ...
... name of the applicant ; the kind of entry , whether homestead or pre - emption ; a description of the land , and the names and residences of the witnesses as stated in the application . ( See Form No. 2. ) To save expense , the register ...
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... Name . Acres . Amount . 80.07 12 , 929. 08 2,398 . 14 37 , 777. 20 30 , 383. 66 $ 100 09 16 , 189 34 8 , 140 51 73 , 718 05 40,751 95 15 , 939.00 112 , 114 98 205 , 709 , 69 267 , 165 22 30 , 400. 73 38 , 001 52 40.00 120 00 80.00 200 ...
... Name . Acres . Amount . 80.07 12 , 929. 08 2,398 . 14 37 , 777. 20 30 , 383. 66 $ 100 09 16 , 189 34 8 , 140 51 73 , 718 05 40,751 95 15 , 939.00 112 , 114 98 205 , 709 , 69 267 , 165 22 30 , 400. 73 38 , 001 52 40.00 120 00 80.00 200 ...
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1st half 23 east 2d half act of Congress act of July act of March amount application appropriation approved boundary California Central Pacific Railroad certificate claimants clerk Commissioner confirmed contract County court decision deputy surveyor district ending June 30 exterior field notes filed fiscal year ending grant homestead entry July 23 Lake meridian Land Office lines lode meridian mineral Mono County Mount Diablo Oregon Pacific Railroad Company parties patent placer plats pre-emption prior private land claims proof public lands public surveys quartz rancho range 2 west range 21 Reason Revised Statutes road ROSWELL H salaries Sept settlement settlers Southern Pacific Railroad special deposits Stat SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE Territory thereof timber tion township 25 tract Union Pacific Railroad United States surveyor west Township Willamette meridian William Minto
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Page 162 - 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, 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 131 - States, which shall have filed with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent of one hundred feet on each side of the central line of said road...
Page 149 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 132 - That any canal or ditch company desiring to secure the benefits of this Act shall, within twelve months after the location of ten miles of its canal, if the same be upon surveyed lands, and if upon unsurveyed lands, within twelve months after the survey thereof...
Page 155 - On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
Page 162 - And nothing in this section shall authorize the locator or possessor of a vein or lode which extends in its downward course beyond the vertical lines of his claim to enter upon the surface of a claim owned or possessed by another.
Page 93 - State, and whenever, on the line thereof the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption, or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed...
Page 118 - ... not sold, reserved or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or homestead claim may not have attached, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed...
Page 155 - ... shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Page 162 - The locators of all mining locations heretofore made, or which shall hereafter be made, on any mineral vein, lode, or ledge situated on the public domain...