Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 36U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 - Public lands |
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34 Stat acres act of April act of June act of March Acting Secretary additional entry affidavit affirmed alleged allowed appeal application approved April 28 assignment Assistant Secretary Pierce authority canceled claimant Commissioner Congress contest court declaratory statement departmental decision enter entitled entryman February February 15 filed final proof grant Greer County heirs held hereby homestead entry homestead law improvements indemnity Indian Interior irrigation issued JAMES RUDOLPH GARFIELD January January 14 July June 17 June 21 land department land district Land Office ment mineral motion for review North Dakota Northern Pacific Northern Pacific Railroad Northern Pacific Railway notice office decision original entry overruled Pacific R. R. patent person plat preference right prior provisions public lands purchase purpose question record register and receiver rejected relinquishment reservation reservoir residence Revised Statutes selection settlement settler supra survey surveyor-general therein thereof tion tract United White Earth Reservation
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Page 212 - ... the United States does and will hold the land thus allotted, for the period of twenty-five years, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made...
Page 410 - That such permits shall be allowed within or through any of said parks or any forest, military, Indian, or other reservation only upon the approval of the chief officer of the Department under whose supervision such park or reservation falls and upon a finding by him that the same is not incompatible with the public interest...
Page 211 - And every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States to whom allotments shall have been made, under the provisions of this act, or under any law or treaty, and every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States...
Page 210 - States will convey the same by patent to said Indian, or his heirs as aforesaid, in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incunibrance whatsoever: Provided, That the President of the United States may in any case in his discretion extend the period.
Page 557 - Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that where a person or company has or may run a tunnel for the purpose of developing a lode or lodes, owned by said person or company, the money so expended in said tunnel shall be taken and considered as expended on said lode or lodes, whether located prior to or since the passage of said act ; and such person or company shall not be required to perform work on the surface of said lode or lodes in order to hold the same as required by said act.
Page 581 - An act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes...
Page 259 - 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 576 - ... approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior the same shall be noted upon the plats in said office, and thereafter all such lands over which such right of way...
Page 568 - Provided, That, if any section of said canal or ditch shall not be completed within five years after the location of said section, the rights herein granted shall be forfeited as to any uncompleted section of said canal, ditch, or reservoir, to the extent that the same is not completed at the date of the forfeiture.
Page 536 - 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...