General Public Acts of Congress: Respecting the Sale and Disposition of the Public Lands, with Instructions Issued, from Time to Time, Part 2Gales and Seaton, 1838 - Land tenure |
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2d section 3d March abstract acres act of 29th act of Congress Albert Gallatin amount application April assignment authorized boundary Chillicothe Choctaw circular claimants Commissioner confirmed containing copy cultivation decision Demopolis enclosed entered entitled An act executed filed final certificate fractional sections further credit GENTLEMEN granted half-quarter section heirs heretofore Indian instructions issued July land district Land Office legal subdivisions letter LEVI WOODBURY lots Louisiana ment Mississippi necessary obedient servant Ohio opinion paid party patent payment persons pre-emption law pre-emption rights President prior private claims proper provisions public lands public sale purchase purchase-money quarter section R. N. S. vol receipt referred register and receiver relinquished request respect returned right of pre-emption river scrip Secretary settlers sold survey surveyor Territory Territory of Orleans thereof tion township plats tract of land transmitted TREASURY DEPARTMENT treaty ultimo United warrants Zanesville
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Page 427 - In Witness Whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal this day of , 19.
Page 152 - AN ACT providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory NORTHWEST of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...
Page 79 - That the section number sixteen, in every township, and where such section has been sold, granted or disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto and most contiguous to the same, shall be granted to the inhabitants of such township, for the use of schools.
Page 389 - An act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships and fractional townships, not before provided for,' and which shall be subject to approval by the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 108 - And that all assignments and transfers of the right of pre-emption given by this act, prior to the issuance of patents, shall be null and void.
Page 111 - California," and of the twelfth section of the act of Congress approved on the 31st of August, 1852, entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes...
Page 355 - An act for the relief of the purchasers of the public lands prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty...
Page 101 - The Commissioner of the General Land Office shall perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States, or in anywise respecting such public lands, and, also, such as relate to private claims of land, and the issuing of patents for all grants of land under the authority of the Government.
Page 214 - an act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers...
Page 153 - State, the same to be used under such terms, conditions, and regulations, as the legislature of the said State shall direct; provided the said legislature shall never sell nor lease the same for a longer period than ten years at any one time.