Mineral Resources West of the Rocky Mountains: 1867 Edition. Browne Series, Bureau Edition] Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting Report Upon the Mineral Resources of the States and Territories West of the Rockey Mountains

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Página 217 - to exceed one hundred and sixty acres ; or said parties may avail themselves of the provisions of the act of Congress approved May 20, 1862, entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," and acts amendatory thereof. SEC. 11.
Página 265 - made ont of them. Our General called this countrey Nova Albion, and that for two causes : the one in respect of the white bankes and cliffes which lie toward the sea ; and the other* because it might have some affinitie with our countrey in name, which sometime was so called.
Página 216 - the patent issued. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That as a further condition of sale, in the absence of necessary legislation by Congress, the local legislature of any State or Territory may provide rules for working mines involving easements, drainage, and other necessary means to their complete development ; and those conditions shall be fully expressed in the patent.
Página 215 - bill. lode, with its dips, angles, and variations, to any depth, although it may enter the land adjoining, which land adjoining shall be sold subject to this condition. SEC. 3. And he it further enacted, That upon the filing of the diagram as provided in the second section
Página 265 - It seemeth that the Spaniards hitherto had never been in this part of the country, neither did discover the lande by many degrees to the southward of this place." There were other expeditions to Lower California and the western coast, after the time of Cortez and Cabrillo, but they all
Página 221 - and rules of miners, and to enter such tract and to receive a patent therefor, granting such mine, together with the right to follow such vein or lode with its dips, angles, and variations to any depth, although it may enter the land adjoining, which land adjoining shall be sold subject to this condition. contradiction in themselves. The law of one
Página 262 - history of California, from the discovery of the country to the year 1849, delivered before the Society of California Pioneers, at their celebration of the tenth anniversary of the admission of the State of California into the Union. By Edmund Randolph,
Página 216 - 4. And be it further enacted. That when such location and entry of a mine shall be upon unsurveyed lands, it shall and may be lawful, after the extension thereto of the public surveys, to adjust the surveys to the limits of the premises according to the location and possession and plat
Página 215 - or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the' same may not be in conflict with the laws of the United
Página 15 - gold ! while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of picks and shovels, and the means of transportation to the spot where one

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