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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United States. General Land Office. ground , and their remaining parts are protected by conical mounds having 5 feet ... United States contained certain stipulations , it was thought best to address a letter of inquiry to the Commissioner ...
United States. General Land Office. ground , and their remaining parts are protected by conical mounds having 5 feet ... United States contained certain stipulations , it was thought best to address a letter of inquiry to the Commissioner ...
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United States. General Land Office. lands in accordance with existing laws and regulations . This letter , dated June 1 , 1877 , referred to the treaty of 1828 , by which the Chero- kees ceded to the United States all the lands to which ...
United States. General Land Office. lands in accordance with existing laws and regulations . This letter , dated June 1 , 1877 , referred to the treaty of 1828 , by which the Chero- kees ceded to the United States all the lands to which ...
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United States. General Land Office. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR , GENERAL LAND OFFICE , Washington , D. C. , June 27 , 1879 . To Surveyors General , Registers , and Receivers · GENTLEMEN : The act of Congress approved March 3 , 1879 ...
United States. General Land Office. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR , GENERAL LAND OFFICE , Washington , D. C. , June 27 , 1879 . To Surveyors General , Registers , and Receivers · GENTLEMEN : The act of Congress approved March 3 , 1879 ...
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United States. General Land Office. Of these , 2,314 have not been acted on and 1,123 are suspended for various causes . During the year ending June 30 , 1879 , 5,240 letters have been received ; of these 170 remain unanswered . Number ...
United States. General Land Office. Of these , 2,314 have not been acted on and 1,123 are suspended for various causes . During the year ending June 30 , 1879 , 5,240 letters have been received ; of these 170 remain unanswered . Number ...
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United States. General Land Office. for the reason that the land was found to be without the corporate limits of the city and wholly unoccupied and unappropriated . There is no error in your decision rejecting the claim of the Northern ...
United States. General Land Office. for the reason that the land was found to be without the corporate limits of the city and wholly unoccupied and unappropriated . There is no error in your decision rejecting the claim of the Northern ...
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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...