Decisions of the Department of the Interior, Volume 61U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acres act of June administrative Alaska Railroad Alcova allotment amended appeal application April Assistant Director August August 21 authority delegated Bureau of Land Bureau of Reclamation cancellation claimant Company conflict construction contracting officer contractor December delay Department drill entry February February 25 filed findings of fact gas lease Government granted grazing homestead included Indian Reorganization Act Interior sec isolated tract issuance issued January January 19 July June 25 Land and Survey Land Management land office letter dated liquidated damages March March 27 ment Mineral Leasing Act mining claim noncompetitive oil November November 26 October October 29 oil and gas operation overruled Pacific R. R. paragraph patent in fee permit preference right preference-right protest public lands pursuant railroad record regulations rejected rental reservation ruled Secretary September Solicitor specifications Stat statute Supp supra Taylor Grazing Act tion tribe United withdrawal
Popular passages
Page 284 - ... it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 204 - ... due to unforeseeable causes beyond the control and without the fault or negligence of the contractor, including, but not restricted to, acts of God, or of the public enemy, acts of the Government, acts of another contractor in the performance of a contract with the Government, fires, floods, epidemics, quarantine restrictions, strikes, freight embargoes, and unusually severe weather or delays of subcontractors due to such causes...
Page 302 - Indians to whom allotments have been made shall have the benefit of and be subject to the laws, both civil and criminal, of the state or territory in which they may reside...
Page 488 - Where minerals have been found and the evidence is of such a character that a person of ordinary prudence would be justified in the further expenditure of his labor and means, with a reasonable prospect of success, in developing a valuable mine, the requirements of the statute have been met.
Page 405 - That no right of way shall hereafter be granted over said lands for the transportation of oil or natural gas except under and subject to the provisions, limitations, and conditions of this section.
Page 87 - When the lands to be leased are not within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field, the person first making application for the lease who is qualified to hold a lease under this Act shall be entitled to a lease of such lands without competitive bidding.
Page 303 - Except as otherwise provided in sections 1154 and 1156 of this title, the term "Indian country", as used in this chapter, means (a) all land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States Government...
Page 121 - That no lease issued under the authority of this Act shall be assigned or sublet, except with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior. The lessee may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be permitted at any time to make written relinquishment of all rights under such a lease, and upon acceptance thereof be thereby relieved of all future obligations under said lease, and may with like consent surrender...
Page 38 - ... provided, the Secretary of the Interior, upon notice and hearing, under such rules as he may prescribe, shall ascertain the legal heirs of such decedent, and his decision thereon shall be final and conclusive.
Page 451 - A prior and remote cause cannot be made the basis of an action for the recovery of damages, if such remote cause did nothing more than furnish the condition, or give rise to the occasion, by which the injury was made possible, if there intervened, between such prior or remote cause and the injury, a distinct, successive, unrelated, and efficient cause of the injury.