Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office |
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The records of this office are not perfect enough to establish the reservations of lands for the many foreign grant claims which , genuine or fraudulent , were presented and fought to a termination , successful or otherwise , after ...
The records of this office are not perfect enough to establish the reservations of lands for the many foreign grant claims which , genuine or fraudulent , were presented and fought to a termination , successful or otherwise , after ...
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shall first be paid into the Treasury of the United States the cost of surveying , selecting , and conveying the same ... made to States to aid in the construction of railroads not named in the granting act ; but where the grant is to a ...
shall first be paid into the Treasury of the United States the cost of surveying , selecting , and conveying the same ... made to States to aid in the construction of railroads not named in the granting act ; but where the grant is to a ...
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No act of Congress has given to either company a preference right by reason of a prior location , or divested ... the subject of the approval of lists of lands enuring to railroad companies under the provisions of said granting act will ...
No act of Congress has given to either company a preference right by reason of a prior location , or divested ... the subject of the approval of lists of lands enuring to railroad companies under the provisions of said granting act will ...
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there being excepted and exclued from this conveyance all surface ground contained n the Adlaide location ... viz : 6 Have given and granted , and by these presents to give and grant , unto the sail Patrick Gallagher and Charles ...
there being excepted and exclued from this conveyance all surface ground contained n the Adlaide location ... viz : 6 Have given and granted , and by these presents to give and grant , unto the sail Patrick Gallagher and Charles ...
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The claimants urge as an objection to the survey wder consideration that it does not give them the full quantity of land they are entitled to under their decree of confirmation ; that the amount included in the present survey ought to ...
The claimants urge as an objection to the survey wder consideration that it does not give them the full quantity of land they are entitled to under their decree of confirmation ; that the amount included in the present survey ought to ...
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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...
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| Title | Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office |
| Author | United States. General Land Office |
| Publisher | The Office, 1879 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Sep 2007 |
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