The Statutes at Large and Proclamations of the United States of America from ..., Volume 17Little, Brown, 1873 |
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... improvement in brake and rest for carts . April 17 , 1872 , ch . 104 • 242 52 52 58 58 • • 58 54 Nebraska . An act to erect two new land districts in the State of Nebraska . April 22 , 1872 , ch . 111 • · Additional Bounty . An act to ...
... improvement in brake and rest for carts . April 17 , 1872 , ch . 104 • 242 52 52 58 58 • • 58 54 Nebraska . An act to erect two new land districts in the State of Nebraska . April 22 , 1872 , ch . 111 • · Additional Bounty . An act to ...
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... improvement in coupling for shafting . June 10 , 1872 , ch . 440 . Charles P. S. Wardwell . An act for the relief of Charles P. S. Wardwell . June 10 , 1872 , ch . 441 • Jane Allen Birckhead and Virginia Campbell . An act for the relief ...
... improvement in coupling for shafting . June 10 , 1872 , ch . 440 . Charles P. S. Wardwell . An act for the relief of Charles P. S. Wardwell . June 10 , 1872 , ch . 441 • Jane Allen Birckhead and Virginia Campbell . An act for the relief ...
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... improvement in clarifying and defecating cane - juice . March 3 , 1873 , ch . 463 Lieutenant Theodore B. M. Mason . An act permitting Lieutenant Theodore B. M. Mason , of the navy , to accept a decoration from the Emperor of Brazil ...
... improvement in clarifying and defecating cane - juice . March 3 , 1873 , ch . 463 Lieutenant Theodore B. M. Mason . An act permitting Lieutenant Theodore B. M. Mason , of the navy , to accept a decoration from the Emperor of Brazil ...
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... improvement of barbor at Buffalo authorized , when in his judgment he thinks it will be for the interest of may be extended the United States , to extend or continue the contract for the improve- by Secretary of ment of the harbor at ...
... improvement of barbor at Buffalo authorized , when in his judgment he thinks it will be for the interest of may be extended the United States , to extend or continue the contract for the improve- by Secretary of ment of the harbor at ...
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... improvement of M ton , D. C. , trans- Street northwest , and by the act approved July fifteenth , eighteen hundred and seventy , for the improvement of the Washington City canal , shall be transferred to the board of public works of the ...
... improvement of M ton , D. C. , trans- Street northwest , and by the act approved July fifteenth , eighteen hundred and seventy , for the improvement of the Washington City canal , shall be transferred to the board of public works of the ...
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Page 92 - ... upon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Page 92 - Upon the failure of any one of several coowners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the coowners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent coowner personal notice in writing or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or by publication...
Page 92 - Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface...
Page 95 - The remainder of the placer claim, or any placer claim not embracing any vein or lode claim, shall be paid for at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre...
Page 91 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, render such limitation necessary.
Page 399 - ... no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge...
Page 212 - An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,' approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 49 - Corps shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect title, or if discharged on account of wounds received or disability incurred in the line of duty, then the term of enlistment shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect title, without reference to the...
Page 93 - 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 607 - ... of the United States not otherwise appropriated or reserved by competent authority, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to such individual person, or three hundred and twenty acres to such association, upon payment to the Receiver of not less than ten dollars per acre for such lands, where the same shall be situated more than fifteen miles from any completed railroad, and not less than twenty dollars per acre for such lands as shall be within fifteen miles of such road.