Manual of United States Surveying: System of Rectangular Surveying Employed in Subdividing the Public Lands of the United States; Also Instructions for Subdividing Sections and Restoring Lost Corners of the Public Lands. Illustrated with Forms, Diagrams, and Maps; Constituting a Complete Text-book of Government Surveying ... To which is Added an Appendix Containing Information in Regard to Entering, Locating, Purchasing, and Settling Lands Under the Various Land Laws, Etc., Etc

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J.B. Lippincott, 1873 - Public lands - 210 pages

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Page 198 - With regard to the platting of the claim and other office work in the surveyor-general's office, that officer will make an estimate of the cost thereof, which amount the claimant will deposit with any assistant United States treasurer or designated depository in favor of the United States Treasurer, to be passed to the credit of the fund created by " individual depositors for surveys of the public lands," and file with the surveyor-general duplicate certificates of such deposit in the usual manner.
Page 174 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of. the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 195 - That whenever any person or association of persons, claim a vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar or copper...
Page 64 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have never sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 64 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 203 - 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, and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Page 201 - An act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes...
Page 172 - January, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, any person applying for the benefit of this act shall, in addition to the oath, hereinbefore required, also make oath that he has not borne arms against the United States, or given aid and comfort to its enemies.
Page 200 - That wherever, prior to the passage of this act, 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 made, improved, and used for agricultural...
Page 181 - State of , have made, constituted, and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute, and appoint, , of , my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name...

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