Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1865 |
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Pagina 3 - There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township...
Pagina 3 - An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory.
Pagina 23 - ... time of filing the affidavit aforesaid, and shall make affidavit that no part of said land has been alienated, and that he has borne true allegiance to the government of the United States; then, in such case, he, she or they, if at that time a citizen of the United States, shall be entitled to a patent, as in other cases provided for by law...
Pagina 23 - That no certificate shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry ; and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such...
Pagina 23 - ... No certificate, however, shall be given or patent issued therefor, until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry; and if at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry ; or if he be dead...
Pagina 12 - That it shall be the duty of the surveyor general, under such instructions as may be given by the Secretary of the Interior, to ascertain the origin, nature, character, and extent of all claims to lands under the laws, usages, and customs of Spain and Mexico...
Pagina 22 - ... giving the name of such city or town, and exhibiting the streets, squares, blocks, lots, and alleys, the size of the same, with measurements and area of each municipal subdivision, the lots in which shall each not exceed...
Pagina 23 - ... credible witnesses that he. she. or they have resided upon or cultivated the same for the term of five years immediately succeeding the time of filing the affidavit...
Pagina 27 - ... the Secretary of the Navy take possession of all public property belonging to the Navy Department within said geographical limits, and put in operation all acts of Congress in relation to naval affairs having application to the said State. " Seventh. That the Secretary of the Interior put in force the laws relating to the Interior Department applicable to the geographical limits aforesaid.
Pagina 25 - That said selections shall be made from alternate and odd-numbered sections of land nearest the location of said canal in said upper peninsula, not otherwise appropriated, and not from lands designated by the United States as