Report of the Commissioner of General Land OfficeThe Office, 1868 - Land use |
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... miles square , having refer- ence to an established principal base line on a true parallel of latitude , and to ... miles north of the base , and at every five townships , or 30 miles south of the same . Guide meridians are surveyed at ...
... miles square , having refer- ence to an established principal base line on a true parallel of latitude , and to ... miles north of the base , and at every five townships , or 30 miles south of the same . Guide meridians are surveyed at ...
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... miles , or 36,128,640 acres . The State is divided into two peninsulas , northern and southern , separated by the straits of Mackinaw , uniting Lakes Huron and Michigan . The northern peninsula in its greatest length is 316 miles , and ...
... miles , or 36,128,640 acres . The State is divided into two peninsulas , northern and southern , separated by the straits of Mackinaw , uniting Lakes Huron and Michigan . The northern peninsula in its greatest length is 316 miles , and ...
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... miles . These localities , together with Ontonagon and Portage Lake , constitute the principal mining regions in ... miles , with a coast line of 1,500 miles . The southern peu- insula includes three - fifths of the entire area of ...
... miles . These localities , together with Ontonagon and Portage Lake , constitute the principal mining regions in ... miles , with a coast line of 1,500 miles . The southern peu- insula includes three - fifths of the entire area of ...
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... miles . The coal is bituminous and of good quality ; mainly used for manufacturing pur- poses . Gypsum also exists in great abundance , principally near Grand Rapids and Tawas Bay . Wool - growing is a leading agricultural interest ...
... miles . The coal is bituminous and of good quality ; mainly used for manufacturing pur- poses . Gypsum also exists in great abundance , principally near Grand Rapids and Tawas Bay . Wool - growing is a leading agricultural interest ...
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... miles , and on the north 120 on Lake Superior . The Mississippi river flows along the western border 400 miles , navigable throughout , receiving as tributaries the Wisconsin , Black , Chippewa , and St. Croix , all large streams ; the ...
... miles , and on the north 120 on Lake Superior . The Mississippi river flows along the western border 400 miles , navigable throughout , receiving as tributaries the Wisconsin , Black , Chippewa , and St. Croix , all large streams ; the ...
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Page 151 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
Page 155 - That whenever 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...
Page 107 - ... lands included in any reservation, by any treaty, law, or proclamation of the president of the United States, or reserved for salines, or for other purposes...
Page 107 - Republican rivers, is hereby granted to the State of Kansas to aid in the construction of a bridge over the Republican River, on the public highway leading through the present reservation; but upon the express condition that this grant shall be accepted by the State of Kansas...
Page 124 - It is evident that a definition that would at this day limit public rivers in this country to tide-water rivers is utterly inadmissible. We have thousands of miles of public navigable water, including lakes and rivers in which there is no tide. And certainly there can be no reason for admiralty power over a public tide-water, which does not apply with equal force to any other public water used for commercial purposes and foreign trade. The lakes and the waters connecting them are undoubtedly public...
Page 130 - But grants of land, bounded on rivers, or upon margins of the same, or along the same, above tide water, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the center of the stream, unless the terms of the grant clearly denote the intention to stop at the edge or margin of the river...
Page 96 - An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of locating and disposing of lands in the western territory...
Page 157 - ... office, that officer will make an estimate of the cost thereof, which amount the claimant will deposit with any assistant United States treasurer or designated depository in favor of the United States Treasurer, to be passed to the credit of the fund created by " individual depositors for surveys of the public lands," and file with the surveyor-general duplicate certificates of such deposit in the usual manner.
Page 86 - States relating to customs, commerce and navigation were extended " to and over all the main-land, islands and waters of the territory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia by treaty concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
Page 175 - ... they are known to have been covered with luxuriant woods, verdant pastures, and fertile meadows, they are now too far deteriorated to be reclaimable by man, nor can they become again fitted for human use, except through great geological changes, or other mysterious influences or agencies of which we have no present knowledge, and over which we have no prospective control. The...