Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1869 |
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Page 206 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity...
Page 50 - That whenever any person or association of persons claim a vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper...
Page 475 - ... to organize a Board of Commissioners, to consist of not more than ten persons, to be selected by him from men eminent for their intelligence and philanthropy, to serve without pecuniary compensation, who may under his direction exercise joint control with the Secretary of the Interior over the disbursement of the appropriations made by this act...
Page 483 - River; thence, due east, to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi River; thence down, and following the course of the Mississippi River, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning: provided, the said state shall ratify the boundaries aforesaid.
Page 41 - Had Florida changed its sovereign by an act containing no stipulation respecting the property of individuals, the right of property in all those who became subjects or citizens of the new government would have been unaffected by the change. It would have remained the same as under the ancient sovereign.
Page 40 - It may not be unworthy of remark that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign, and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated...
Page 56 - September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, the register and receiver shall each be entitled to one dollar for their services in acting upon pre-emption claims, and shall be allowed, jointly, at the rate of fifteen cents per hundred words for the testimony which may be reduced by them to writing for claimants, in establishing pre-emption or homestead rights, the regulations for giving proper effect to the provisions of this act to be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Page 162 - East of Nevada is the Territory of Utah, bounded on the north by Idaho and Wyoming, on the east by Colorado, and on the south by Arizona; embracing an area of 84,476 square miles, or 54,065,075 acres ; equal in extent to the whole of New England.
Page 40 - property ', as applied to lands, comprehends every species of title inchoate or complete. It is supposed to embrace those rights which lie in contract ; those which are execuatory, as well as those which are executed. In this respect the relation of the inhabitants to their government is not changed. The new government takes the place of that which has passed away.
Page 50 - ... thereon an amount of not less than one thousand dollars, and in regard to whose possession there is no controversy or opposing claim...