Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1872 |
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... considerable extent , been sold to pur- chasers in small tracts , exhibiting the prevailing tendency of our social ... considerably lightened the pressure of financial distress which constrained the westward movement of our population ...
... considerable extent , been sold to pur- chasers in small tracts , exhibiting the prevailing tendency of our social ... considerably lightened the pressure of financial distress which constrained the westward movement of our population ...
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... considerable tracts were found already appropriated by private owners under the systems of law pre- viously in force . Besides these there were inchoate titles from former sovereign authority , awaiting confirmation by our Government ...
... considerable tracts were found already appropriated by private owners under the systems of law pre- viously in force . Besides these there were inchoate titles from former sovereign authority , awaiting confirmation by our Government ...
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... considerable extent , but chiefly for forage . All varieties of hemp grow luxuriantly , and may be cultivated with every assurance of remunera- tive returns . Almost every description of garden vegetables found in the markets of this ...
... considerable extent , but chiefly for forage . All varieties of hemp grow luxuriantly , and may be cultivated with every assurance of remunera- tive returns . Almost every description of garden vegetables found in the markets of this ...
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... considerable tributary on its southern side within Alabama , and flowing into the Ohio at Paducah , Kentucky . The other rivers mentioned flow into the Gulf of Mexico . Nearly all the waters of the State fall into the Mobile River , by ...
... considerable tributary on its southern side within Alabama , and flowing into the Ohio at Paducah , Kentucky . The other rivers mentioned flow into the Gulf of Mexico . Nearly all the waters of the State fall into the Mobile River , by ...
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... considerable streams and navigable for steamboats . The Bayou du Bon Dieu is also a large river , which flows into the Red River . The Vermillion , Mermenteau , and Calcasieu spread out into shallow lagoons on the low THE GENERAL LAND ...
... considerable streams and navigable for steamboats . The Bayou du Bon Dieu is also a large river , which flows into the Red River . The Vermillion , Mermenteau , and Calcasieu spread out into shallow lagoons on the low THE GENERAL LAND ...
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aggregate agricultural amount boundary bushels California City claims clerks climate coal Colorado contract corn county seat crops cultivation deposits district east eastern embracing ending June 30 estimated extensive February 16 feet fiscal year ending gold grant homestead Indian iron July July 23 June 15 June 21 June 30 Kansas Lake Land Office latitude located manufacture March March 21 mineral mining Mississippi Missouri River mountains Nebraska Nevada northern number of acres oats Oregon Pacific Railroad patent plats population portion pounds preemption principal meridian production public lands public surveys quantity range 12 raw material region road section lines settlement settlers silk culture silver soil southern square miles standard parallel Stat surveyor SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE tea culture Territory timber tion tons total value town Township 9 tracts Union Pacific Union Pacific Railroad United Unsurveyed Utah valleys Washington Territory water-power west 23 wheat
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Stran 261 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Stran 260 - States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Stran 28 - And until the governor and judges shall adopt laws as hereinafter mentioned, estates in the said territory may be devised or bequeathed by wills in writing, signed and sealed by him or her, in whom the estate may be (being of full age) and attested by three witnesses...
Stran 28 - ... part of the personal estate; and this law relative to descents and dower shall remain in full force until altered by the legislature of the district.
Stran 278 - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Stran 28 - Be. it ordained by the authority aforesaid: That the estates both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said territory dying intestate shall descend to and be distributed among their children and the descendants of a deceased child in equal parts ; the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants then in equal parts to the next of kin in equal degree...
Stran 273 - No certificate, however, 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...
Stran 256 - 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.
Stran 16 - Town unto the three and fortieth degree of Northern Latitude, if the said River doth extend so far Northward. But if the said River shall not extend so far Northward, then by the said River so far as it doth extend, and from the head of the said River the Eastern bounds...
Stran 261 - Wherever, upon the lands heretofore designated as mineral lands, which have been excluded from survey and sale, there have been homesteads made by citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, which homesteads have been...