The Farmers and Emigrants Complete Guide: Or a Hand Book, with Copious Hints, Recipes, and Tables, Designed for the Farmer and Emigrant

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Applegate, 1857 - 492 páginas
 

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Página 354 - ... lands, and all right and title to the same; and any grant or conveyance which he may have made, except in the hands of bona fide purchasers, shall be null and void.
Página 345 - To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; To establish post-offices and post-roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts...
Página 354 - ... all assignments and transfers of the right hereby secured, prior to the issuing of the patent, shall be null and void.
Página 354 - ... he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he might acquire from the government of the United States should inure, in whole or in part, to the benefit of any person except himself...
Página 356 - That from and after the passage of this act, every person being the head of a family, or widow, or single man, over the age of twenty-one years, and being a citizen of the United States, or having filed his declaration of intention to become a citizen, as required by the naturalization laws...
Página 354 - That prior to any entries being made under and by virtue of the provisions of this act, proof of the settlement and improvement thereby required, shall be made to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land district in which such lands may lie, agreeably to such rules as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury...
Página 355 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands and to grant pre-emption rights...
Página 355 - ... that he does not apply to purchase the same on speculation, but in good faith to appropriate it to his own exclusive use and benefit; and that he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons...
Página 354 - And be it further enacted, That this act shall not delay the sale of any of the public lands of the United States beyond the time which has been, or may be, appointed by the proclamation of the President, nor shall the provisions of this act be available to any person or persons who shall fail to make the proof and payment, and file the affidavit required before the day appointed for the commencement of the sales as aforesaid.
Página 319 - Keep the beds free from weeds ; plow' the alleys and cover the tops, as before directed, two or three times during the season. The alleys will now form deep and narrow ditches, and if it becomes difficult to obtain good earth for covering the tops, that operation may be omitted after the second time this season. Care should be taken when covering the tops, to keep the edges of the beds as high as the middle, otherwise the water from heavy showers will run off, and the crop suffer from drought. The...

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