...mining law of the United States even limits the transfer of mineral lands belonging to the Union to "citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such," while the Mexican mining laws allow foreigners to own and develop mines on the нате terms...

...occupy and purchase any of the lands of the United States containing mineral deposits, is confined to citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such. The defendants, being aliens, are not within the purview of the law, and by an almost necessary...

...the Revised Statutes, the right to purchase mineral deposits In the public lands was conferred upon "citizens of the United States and those who have declared their Intention to become such." Section 2321, however, In regulating the mode by which the fact of citizenship should be established,...

...Stat., the public lands of the United States are only open to exploration, occupation, and purchase by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such. In Manuel v. Wulff, 162 US 505, 38 L. -ed. 532, 14 Sup. Ct* Rep. 651, this court sustained the...

...exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they were found, to occupation and purchase bycitizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, did not preclude a priva te corporation, formed under the laws of a state, whose members were...

...to regulation by the miners themselves. 1 Act of Congress July 26, 1866.—" § 1. The mineral lands of the public domain, both surveyed and unsurveyed,...the United States, and those who have declared their intentions to become citizens, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and subject...

...lands of the United States, and declared them to be " free and open to exploration and occupation by citizens of the United States and those who have declared...their intention to become citizens, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law and the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining...

...CJ The act incorporating the city of Butte provides (article 4, § 2, Sess. Laws 1879) as follows : "All citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, of twenty-one years of age, who shall be tax-paying householders, and who shall have been actual...

...Statutes provides as follows : "All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United...

...Committee who recommend that qualified voters shall be: The report was concurred in—yeas 26, nays 13. All citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, and who are otherwise described and qualified under the fifth section of the act of Congress...