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1927- Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior In Cases Relating To The Public Lands, Part 2, Volumes 1 To 50, Inclusive Dec 2018

1927- Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior In Cases Relating To The Public Lands, Part 2, Volumes 1 To 50, Inclusive

US Government Legislation and Statutes

Compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1885 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1884 To June 1885 Dec 2018

1885 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1884 To June 1885

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1890 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1 To December 31, 1889 Dec 2018

1890 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1 To December 31, 1889

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1897 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January 1897 To June 1897 Dec 2018

1897 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January 1897 To June 1897

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1904 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January 1904 Through May 1904 Dec 2018

1904 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January 1904 Through May 1904

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1928 - Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior In Cases Relating To The Public Lands (Indian Matters Included), Part I, Volumes 41-51, Inclusive Dec 2018

1928 - Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior In Cases Relating To The Public Lands (Indian Matters Included), Part I, Volumes 41-51, Inclusive

US Government Legislation and Statutes

Compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1901 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From May 1, 1900 To June 30, 1901 Dec 2018

1901 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From May 1, 1900 To June 30, 1901

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1894 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1, 1893 To December 31, 1893 Dec 2018

1894 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1, 1893 To December 31, 1893

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1908 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office, July 1, 1907 - June 30, 1908 Dec 2018

1908 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office, July 1, 1907 - June 30, 1908

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1913 - Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior An General Land Office In Cases Relating To Public Lands, Volumes 1 To 40, Inclusive, Part 1 And Part 2 Dec 2018

1913 - Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior An General Land Office In Cases Relating To Public Lands, Volumes 1 To 40, Inclusive, Part 1 And Part 2

US Government Legislation and Statutes

Compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1906 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office, July 1, 1905 To June 30, 1906 Dec 2018

1906 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office, July 1, 1905 To June 30, 1906

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1896 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office, From January 1896 To July 1896 Dec 2018

1896 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office, From January 1896 To July 1896

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1900 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1, 1899 To April 30, 1900 Dec 2018

1900 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1, 1899 To April 30, 1900

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1897 - Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior An General Land Office In Cases Relating To The Public Lands; Volumes 1 To Xxii Inclusive Dec 2018

1897 - Digest Of Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior An General Land Office In Cases Relating To The Public Lands; Volumes 1 To Xxii Inclusive

US Government Legislation and Statutes

Compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1899 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January 1899 To June 30, 1899 Dec 2018

1899 - Decisions Of Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January 1899 To June 30, 1899

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1897 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1, 1896 To June 30, 1897 Dec 2018

1897 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From July 1, 1896 To June 30, 1897

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1898 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office, Jan. - May 1898 Dec 2018

1898 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office, Jan. - May 1898

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1893 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From June 30 To December 31, 1892 Dec 2018

1893 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From June 30 To December 31, 1892

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1890 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January To June 30, 1890 Dec 2018

1890 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January To June 30, 1890

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1892 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office, Jan 1 - June 30, 1892 Dec 2018

1892 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office, Jan 1 - June 30, 1892

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1894 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office In Cases Relating To Public Lands From Jan. 1 To June 30, 1894 Dec 2018

1894 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office In Cases Relating To Public Lands From Jan. 1 To June 30, 1894

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1895 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office, July 1 - Dec. 30, 1894 Dec 2018

1895 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office, July 1 - Dec. 30, 1894

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1891 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January To June 30, 1891 Dec 2018

1891 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January To June 30, 1891

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1895 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January 1 To June 30, 1895 Nov 2018

1895 - Decisions Of The Department Of Interior And General Land Office From January 1 To June 30, 1895

US Government Legislation and Statutes

A compilation of the decisions of the Department of Interior and General Land Office concerning the administration of the United States public land laws.


1883 - Public Land Laws Passed By Congress From March 4,1875, To April 1, 1882, With The Important Decisions Of The Secretary Of The Interior, And Commissioner Of The General Land Office, The Land Opinions Of The Attorney General, And The Circular Instructions Issued Mar 2018

1883 - Public Land Laws Passed By Congress From March 4,1875, To April 1, 1882, With The Important Decisions Of The Secretary Of The Interior, And Commissioner Of The General Land Office, The Land Opinions Of The Attorney General, And The Circular Instructions Issued

US Government Legislation and Statutes

An 1883 publication designed to show the development of the public land system from 1875 to 1882, presenting a repository of the important decisions of the General Land Office as well as opinions of the U.S. Attorney General and instructions to the surveyors general, registers and receivers.


1880, The Public Domain, Its History With Statistics Jun 2016

1880, The Public Domain, Its History With Statistics

US Government Legislation and Statutes

Prepared by Thomas Donaldson, member of the Public Land Commission's Committee on Codification, this publication containing 33 chapters, gives the origin, growth and disposition of the lands in the public domain, tracing several systems from their origin, and providing full statistics of operations under and the results of several acts for the sale and disposition of public lands up to June 30, 1880.


1897, June 4 - 30 Stat. 11 - Appropriations Act For Fy Ending June 30, 1898 Jun 2016

1897, June 4 - 30 Stat. 11 - Appropriations Act For Fy Ending June 30, 1898

US Government Legislation and Statutes

An Act appropriating certain sums for sundry civil expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, including, among other things, expenses incurred in connection with the collection of revenue from sales of public lands, protection of public lands, settlement of public lands and swamp-land claims, hearings held by General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries had been made in compliance with law, reproducing plats of surveys, and for surveying or resurveying public lands. (p.32) Provided that any forest reservation if found better adapted for mining or agricultural purposes than forest usage, could be restored to the public …


1887, February 8 - 24 Stat. 388, Act For Allotment Of Lands To Indians Jun 2016

1887, February 8 - 24 Stat. 388, Act For Allotment Of Lands To Indians

US Government Legislation and Statutes

The Act provided that the President, based on his opinion that any reservation or any part thereof was advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes, could cause the reservation to be surveyed or resurveyed to allot the lands in severalty to any Indian (head of a family, single person over 18 years of age, each orphan child under 18 years of age, and any single person under 18 or who was born prior to the date of the President's order directing an allotment, one-sixteenth of a section) located there on in one-quarter sections. If there was insufficient land on reservation to …


1862, July 2 - 12 Stat. 503, Act Donating Public Land For Colleges Jun 2016

1862, July 2 - 12 Stat. 503, Act Donating Public Land For Colleges

US Government Legislation and Statutes

An act donating Public Lands to provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, an amount to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty-thousand acres for each senator and representative in under the census of 1860. No mineral lands were to be selected or purchase under this act. Moneys from sales of land to be invested, to constitute a perpetual fund, interest to be applied to support one college for agriculture and the mechanic arts. Set forth the conditions under which the grant of land and land scrip could be made.


1872, April 4 - 17 Stat. 49, Act To Enable Soldiers-Sailors And Heirs To Acquire Homesteads On Public Lands Jun 2016

1872, April 4 - 17 Stat. 49, Act To Enable Soldiers-Sailors And Heirs To Acquire Homesteads On Public Lands

US Government Legislation and Statutes

The 1872 Act provided that every private soldier and officer who served in the army, seaman, marine and officer who served in the navy or marine corps during the rebellion for ninety days or more and was honorably discharged and remained loyal to the government was entitled to enter upon and receive patents for public lands (not mineral) not exceeding 160 acres or one quarter-section. Widows and orphan children of those entitled to a homestead under the act could enjoy its benefits. Actual service in army or navy was deemed equivalent to a residence for the same time upon the …