Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 27U.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 |
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acres act of July act of March Acting Secretary Ryan adverse claim affidavit of contest affirmed alleged allowed amended appeal approved assignment August August 18 canceled certificate Cherokee Outlet claimant Commissioner court December December 17 declaratory statement departmental decision District of Alaska duly entitled entryman fact February February 26 field notes filed final proof grant hearing held homestead entry improvements Indian Interior issued July 22 June June 16 June 22 land district land embraced land in controversy Land Office lode Manitoba Medimont ment mineral mining motion for review Northern Pacific R. R. Northern Pacific Railroad notice October October 29 office decision parties placer mining plat prior public lands purchase purposes record register and receiver rejected relinquishment reservation reservoir residence scrip Secretary Bliss September September 29 settlement settler Stat survey Territory testimony thereof thereto tion township tract United warrant
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Page 602 - It is a familiar rule, that a thing may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers.
Page 497 - Congress assembled, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him...
Page 5 - the Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory and other property belonging to the United States...
Page 93 - Legal subdivisions of forty acres may be subdivided into ten-acre tracts; and two or more persons, or associations of persons, having contiguous claims of any size, although such claims may be less than ten acres each, may make joint entry thereof; but no location of a placer claim, made after the ninth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person or association of persons...
Page 93 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventytwo, render such limitation necessary.
Page 263 - Alaska, and thereafter no patent shall issue for such claim until the final adjudication of the rights of the parties, and such patent shall then be issued in conformity with the final decree of the court.
Page 677 - 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 509 - President of the United States shall cause the lands to be surveyed for forty miles in width on both sides of the entire line of said road, after the general route shall be fixed, and as fast as may be required by the construction of said railroad ; and the odd sections of land hereby granted shall not be liable to sale, or entry or preemption before or after they are surveyed, except by said company, as provided in this act...
Page 329 - Office, under the seal of his office, either as originals or copies of the originals or records shall be regarded as conveying the fee simple of all the lands embraced in such lists that are of the character contemplated by such act of Congress, and intended to be granted thereby; but where lands embraced in such lists are not of the character embraced by such acts of Congress, and are not intended to be granted thereby, the lists, so far as these lands are concerned, shall be perfectly null and...
Page 264 - The Secretary of the Interior may permit, under regulations to be prescribed by him, the use of timber and stone found upon such reservations, free of charge, by bona fide settlers, miners, residents, and prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and other domestic purposes, as may be needed by such persons for such purposes...