House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Band 22 |
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... lived in San Francisco since 1860 ; I have been through the Sierra Nevada Mountains a great deal , and am very familiar with them . Question . Give us a little account of the timber , and the way in which the timber is destroyed ...
... lived in San Francisco since 1860 ; I have been through the Sierra Nevada Mountains a great deal , and am very familiar with them . Question . Give us a little account of the timber , and the way in which the timber is destroyed ...
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... lived in the State a little over thirty years . I have been engaged in farming and grazing , and have dealt some in lands and know something of them from experience and from observation . I have traveled nearly all over the State , and ...
... lived in the State a little over thirty years . I have been engaged in farming and grazing , and have dealt some in lands and know something of them from experience and from observation . I have traveled nearly all over the State , and ...
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... lived in the State , and what is your profession ? -An- swer . I have lived in this country 29 years , and am a land surveyor by profession . Q. Upon what subjects do you wish to testify ? -A . What I am now about to say applies solely ...
... lived in the State , and what is your profession ? -An- swer . I have lived in this country 29 years , and am a land surveyor by profession . Q. Upon what subjects do you wish to testify ? -A . What I am now about to say applies solely ...
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... lived here since 1857 , I think . Practically , in this matter of debris there is not sufficient account taken of the material collected in the rivers during the early mining in the State . In the first place mining that was done in the ...
... lived here since 1857 , I think . Practically , in this matter of debris there is not sufficient account taken of the material collected in the rivers during the early mining in the State . In the first place mining that was done in the ...
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... lived in this State twenty years exactly . I have been engaged in farming nearly all that time , except one winter I spent in the mines . Question . Where do you live now ? -- Answer . I live close to Nicholas ; about two and a half ...
... lived in this State twenty years exactly . I have been engaged in farming nearly all that time , except one winter I spent in the mines . Question . Where do you live now ? -- Answer . I live close to Nicholas ; about two and a half ...
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Seite lxxxiii - ... by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Seite lxviii - Indian tribe, but shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities to taxation of other citizens of the United States.
Seite lxviii - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Seite xlvii - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the waters of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Seite lxxxiii - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Seite lxiii - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits...
Seite lxxi - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this Act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Seite lviii - And the boundary lines which have not been actually run and marked shall be ascertained by running straight lines from the established corners to the opposite corresponding corners; but in those portions of the fractional townships where no such opposite corresponding corners have been or can be fixed, the...
Seite lxv - ... infant child or children; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the State in which such...
Seite lxvi - February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and every seaman, marine, and officer who has served in the Navy of the United States...