Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 2 |
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Page 753 - Where non-mineral land not contiguous to the vein or lode is used or occupied by the proprietor of such vein or lode for mining or milling purposes, such non-adjacent surface ground may be embraced and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same may be patented therewith, subject to the same preliminary requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable to veins or lodes...
Page 746 - ... 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 755 - ... together with a notice of such application for a patent, in a conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat previous to the filing of the application for a patent, and shall file an affidavit of at least two persons, that such notice has been duly posted...
Page 236 - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Page 701 - 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 312 - 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 475 - 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, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the commissioner of the general land office...
Page 645 - ... shall be included in said list and plats ; but when the greater part of a subdivision is not of that character, the whole of it shall be excluded therefrom.
Page 777 - ... any grant or conveyance which he may have made, except in the hands of bona fide purchasers, shall be null and void.
Page 513 - ... every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said Company may adopt, through the Territories of the United States...
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| Title | Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 2 |
| Author | United States. Department of the Interior |
| Contributor | United States. General Land Office |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1884 |
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