 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 1180 pages
...be, and is hereby, instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the second section »f "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," approved May 20, 1862, as to permit the person applying for the benefit of said act to make the necessary... | |
 | Edmund Morris - Acquisition of property - 1864 - 364 pages
...Lincoln, on the 20th of May, 1862, did not hesitate to sign. The provisions of this act are as follow : AN ACT to Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain, and to Provide a Bounty for Soldiers in lieu of Grants of the Public lands. Be it enacted by the Senate... | |
 | 1864 - 726 pages
...provisions of an act of Congress approved May 20, 1862, of which a copy is herewith enclosed, entitled " An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain." " The privileges of this law," as you will perceive, " are extended to every person who is the head... | |
 | Wisconsin - Session laws - 1864 - 618 pages
...which have been or may herereafter be entered under the provisions of the act of congress, entitled " an act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," approved May 20th, 1862, and which shall be actually occupied and improved by the person so entering... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1864 - 724 pages
...provisions of an act of Congress approved May '20, 1862, of which a copy is herewith enclosed, entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain." "The privileges of this law," as you will perceive, "are extended to every person who is the head of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 pages
...of which might flow the best and strongest influences to support and bless the State. Congress, by an act " to secure Homesteads to actual settlers on the Public Domain," passed May 20, 18G2, and approved by the President, secures a free homestead " to any person who is... | |
 | Edmund Morris - History - 1864 - 354 pages
...Lincoln, on the 20th of May, 1862, did not hesitate to sign. The provisions of this act are as follow : AN ACT to Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain, and to Provide a Bounty for Soldiers in lieu of Grants of the Public lands. Be it enacted by the Senate... | |
 | Michigan - Session laws - 1865 - 972 pages
...March seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or under the provisions of an act of Congress entitled " an act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall and every such person is hereby declared... | |
 | United States - Law - 1865 - 216 pages
...Secretary of the Interior, enter a homestead and become entitled to all the benefits of an act entitled " An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, free from any fee or charge whatever, and any... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 852 pages
...per cent. Three other bills may be mentioned for their. importance in the legislation of this period. An " act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," gave to any person the head of a family, or of the age of twenty-one, a loyal citizen of the United... | |
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