Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents: 14th Congress, 1st Session-48th Congress, 2nd Session and Special Session, Volume 1, Part 1

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Page 15 - An act to create the office of surveyor-general of the public lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey and to make donations to the settlers of the said public lands,' approved September twentyseventh, eighteen hundred and fifty.
Page 4 - To have and to hold all and singular the premises before mentioned unto the said CD, his heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, to warrant and forever defend all and singular the said premises unto the said CD, his heirs and assigns, against myself and my heirs, and against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same, or any part thereof.
Page 1 - Relations, and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith...
Page 8 - States further guarantee to the Cherokee nation a perpetual outlet west and a free and unmolested use of all the country lying west of the western boundary of said seven millions of acres, as far west as the sovereignty of the United States and their right of soil extend.
Page 4 - Lenard, his heirs and assigns forever; and I do hereby bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, to Warrant and Forever Defend all and singular the said premises unto the said GW Lenard, his heirs and assigns, against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof.
Page 29 - Souse of Representatives : I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a...
Page 4 - River, to be improved by the government, so far as the same may be necessary to prevent encroachment being made upon the improved channel-way, or any part of it that may be in course of excavation and improvement, and also to keep the same open and free from all obstructions, and...
Page 4 - ... as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and, to secure that object, the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and...
Page 13 - ... of the Board. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, HG WRIGHT, Chief of Engineers, Brig, and Bvt. Maj. Gen. Hon. ALEXANDER RAMSEY, Secretary of War. [Indorsement.] Recommendation of the Chief of Engineers approved.

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