Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents]., Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1884 |
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... of the children therein . This course has been necessitated by lack of sufficient appropriations to provide for all the children willing to receive an education . The amount paid III Report of the Secretary of the Interior III-XL.
... of the children therein . This course has been necessitated by lack of sufficient appropriations to provide for all the children willing to receive an education . The amount paid III Report of the Secretary of the Interior III-XL.
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... paid is somewhat less than the average cost per capita of children maintained in Govern- ment schools . There are also 23 schools maintained by churches and associations without expense to the Government , and to the support of which ...
... paid is somewhat less than the average cost per capita of children maintained in Govern- ment schools . There are also 23 schools maintained by churches and associations without expense to the Government , and to the support of which ...
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... paid for such privileges is understood to be about 2 cents per acre for the lands so occupied . This amount is not a fair compensation at this time for the use of such lands , or for at least a considerable portion thereof . Much of the ...
... paid for such privileges is understood to be about 2 cents per acre for the lands so occupied . This amount is not a fair compensation at this time for the use of such lands , or for at least a considerable portion thereof . Much of the ...
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... paid to them is wasted and often worse than wasted . Such pay- ments should be made in stock cattle , agricultural implements , or by the erection of suitable dwelling houses for those willing to occupy and live in such houses ...
... paid to them is wasted and often worse than wasted . Such pay- ments should be made in stock cattle , agricultural implements , or by the erection of suitable dwelling houses for those willing to occupy and live in such houses ...
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... paid for cost granted . ing has of survey- ing . been paid . Estimated number of acres in the remainder of the grants . Estimated cost of sur- Number of veying re- mainder of acres pat- ented up to June 30 , 1884 . grant . Union Pacific ...
... paid for cost granted . ing has of survey- ing . been paid . Estimated number of acres in the remainder of the grants . Estimated cost of sur- Number of veying re- mainder of acres pat- ented up to June 30 , 1884 . grant . Union Pacific ...
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acres amount received therefrom bonds bridge cent Central Pacific Railroad claims classes of entries Commissioner commissions of register commuted to cash Congress construction Denver earnings ending June 30 entries and amount entries and locations Executive order Expenses of depositing filed Final homestead entries fiscal year ending freight further enacted grant hereby homestead declara Homestead entries commuted Incidental expenses Indian July July 25 June 15 Kansas Kansas Pacific Railway Lake meridian LAND OFFICE land subject Lands entered meridian miles Missouri River Northern Pacific Northern Pacific Railroad Oregon Original homestead entries Pacific Railroad Company Pacific Railway Company passenger payments on homestead pension Pre-emption declaratory statements pre-emption entry public lands railroad and telegraph reserve Revised Statutes road Saint Paul Sales of land Secretary Sioux City Subdivisions subject to pre-emption surveyor-general surveys thereof timber timber-culture laws Total cash sales Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific Railway United west boundary
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Page 384 - 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 401 - That the grants aforesaid are made upon condition that said company shall pay said bonds at maturity, and shall keep said railroad and telegraph line in repair and use, and shall at all times transmit dispatches over said telegraph line, and transport mails, troops, and munitions of war, supplies, and public stores upon said railroad for the government, whenever required to do so by any department thereof, and that the government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same for all...
Page 465 - ... bed of the stream, the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the...
Page 503 - ... a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Page 446 - 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...
Page 255 - States, and leave a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children shall be entitled to and receive half the monthly pay, to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years.
Page 400 - ... not sold, reserved or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or homestead claim may not have attached, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed...
Page 434 - That the president of the United States shall cause the lands to be surveyed for forty miles in width on both sides of the entire line of said road, after the general route shall be fixed, and as fast as may be required by the construction of said railroad; and the odd sections of land hereby granted shall not be liable to sale, or entry, or pre-emption before or after they are surveyed, except by said company as provided in this act...
Page 400 - And all such lands, so granted by this section, which shall not be sold or disposed of by said company within three years after the entire road shall have been completed, shall be subject to settlement and preemption...
Page 391 - ... lay out, locate, construct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy a continuous railroad and telegraph, with the appurtenances, from a point on the one hundredth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, between the south margin of the valley of the Republican River and the north margin of the valley of the Platte River, in the Territory of Nebraska, to the western boundary of Nevada Territory...