APPLICATION, Continued.

To be presented to register by party purchasing coal land at pri-
vate entry,

To enter school section in California under coal act received,
Proceedings in case of, for benefits of Act of June 23, 1874,
APPROVAL.

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669

676

713-14

Of survey of private land claim under Act of 1860 may be by pub-
lication,

Publication by the Surveyor-General of approval of a survey was
sufficient under act of 1860, though the plat bore an approval
subsequent to such publication,

What was a sufficient, of a survey under act of March 3, 1857, c

sidered.

Of eighteen claims of Lake Superior band of Chippewas,
ASSOCIATION.

Of qualified persons, may enter 320 acres of coal land,

548

550

con-

574

. 707

667

667

Of not less than four persons who have expended $5,000 in im-
proving and working coal land may enter 640 acres, including im-
provements,

ASSIGNEE.

To locate scrip upon lands subject to private entry at $1.25 per acre, 486
A confirmation inured to the benefit of an, even if sale was made
before confirmation,

The term legal representatives includes heirs, devisees and,
And heirs, right acquired under resolution of April 10, 1869, is alien-
able and descends to,

Private land scrip may be located in name of

Of the right to purchase under coal land act will be recognized, &c., 671
Of Revolutionary Bounty Land-scrip,

743

Form of, of R. B. L. Scrip,

743

No of military bounty land warrant executed prior to date thereof
is recognized,

727

Of M. B. L. W. must be endorsed thereon,

727

Register and receiver are prohibited from receiving M. B. L. W. not

Personal, when not required at district land-office, in homestead
cases,

Properly ruled, to be furnished local officers for indemnity selec-
tions under act of June 22, 1874,

A claimant who failed to present his claim to the, for California
was not entitled to a patent,

Cases of Ranchos Sausal Redondo and Niguel where the court
and, differ as to the quantity embraced in the grant,

564

563

BOUNDARIES.

Designated in final decree on title of private land claim must be
followed,.

529

Where certain quantity within exterior, is granted, the land must
be surveyed in compact form, or in two compact parcels, to give
what was intended in the grant,

529

BOUNDARIES, Continued.

Juridical possession may be considered as equivalent to a judicial
determination of the, of a private land claim,
Location of a private land claim where the, specified contain more
and less than the quantity confirmed,

Where one of the, of a grant cannot be located without excluding
others, the claim will be located to best satisfy the grant,
Where one of the, of a grant is a mountain, the foot of that moun-
tain is the true boundary,

Where no, are given in a confirmed Mexican colonization grant or
specified quantity, only eleven square leagues can be taken,
Must be clearly defined in case of Roman Catholic Mission claims
under the Oregon donation acts,

BOUNTY LAND WARRANTS. (See Military Bounty Land Warrants.)
BREAKING.

And planting, failure to do by claimant under timber culture laws,
within not less than one year from date of entry will subject the
land to contest,

First ten acres in strips, is not allowable under the timber-culture
law,
BROTHERS.

Of deceased homestead settler, if the only heirs, may make final
proof,

Land claimed and improved by a pre-emption settler cannot be
selected for the University of, the agent having been instructed
not to make such a selection,.

Where, makes a selection under 1st section, act of July 23, 1866,
full compliance with the State law regulating sales of land must
be shown,

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532

.

577

591

591

603

Unsurveyed lands in, were not subject to pre-emption settlement
between expiration of act of March 1, 1854 and passage of act of
May 30, 1862,

Instructions relative to school selections in state of,
When entitled to two sections for each fractional township,
When entitled to one and a half section for each fractional town-
ship,

752

190

654

247

321

324

420

437

438

438

438

When 'entitled to one section for each fractional township,
When entitled to one-half section for each fractional township,
When entitled to select as school sections other lands than sections
16 and 36,

438

438

Is not entitled to indemnity for any school selections not allowed
to be made in a township falling entirely within a private claim, 439
To have benefits of act of March 3, 1871, relative to lands granted
for an Agricultural College,

441

State selections for Agricultural College,
What lands are open to selections by, for Agricultural College,
Cannot take land with Agricultural College scrip after it has been
appropriated by an individual and paid for by him,
State Authorities are to give notice to register, of the selections
named in section one of act of July 23d, 1866,

Application to enter school section in, under coal act received,
CANCELLATION.

Of homestead entry; affidavit required in case party desires,
Of homestead entry; proceedings in case application is made for,
Applications for, of homestead entries in case of death of settlers,
how dealt with, .

Right of, to section 16 (for school purposes) which was unsurveyed
till 1869, could not operate against a party entitled under 7th sec-
tion, act July 23, 1866,

CANCELLATION, Continued.

Surrender of duplicate receipt to General Land-Office to procure,
of homestead entry is not allowable,

Second entries of abandoned homestead tracts cannot be made
until notice of, has been received by local officers,
After, of an entry, it may be reinstated upon a proper showing and
a rehearing held,

Of filing on ex parte affidavits is error,

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250

264-253

297

316

Of homestead entry becomes effective when Commissioner's let-
ter is received at the local office,

To initiate a valid pre-emption right on land embraced in a home-
stead claim, some act of settlement is required after cancellation
of homestead,

An entry or filing is prima facie a valid one, and the party attack-
ing it must affirmatively show cause for its cancellation,

316

327-326

Of tract above 160 acres in a pre-emption entry does not pass the
tract to a railroad grant,

416

Of A. C. S. locations regularly made do not pass the land to a rail-
road whose line was fixed during the existence of said locations, 436
Sale of timber culture claim by original claimant, sufficient ground
for,

CASH ENTRY.

A purchaser, in good faith and for a valuable consideration of a,
is not a trespasser but legally in possession,

Made of a tract does not admit of its location with Agricultural Col-
lege Scrip by the State,

CASH PURCHASES.

Title, how acquired by, at private sale,

Duplicate receipt to be given purchaser making,

Patent to be given either by Commissioner General Land Office
or by register of district Land Office to parties making,
Payment by, when to be made,

Part of timber culture entry cannot be alienated for, or village
purposes,.

CERTIFICATE.

Final, to be issued by register for aditional tract entered by party'
under soldiers' and sailors' homestead provisions,

To be issued by register upon compliance with certain conditions
by homestead settler,

Duplicate, when to be furnished party locating with warrant at
private entry,

180

183

187

In case a party claiming under soldiers' and sailors' homestead
law makes final proof on an original and additional entry at the
same time a final, will be issued for both tracts,

Of discharge, certified copy of, to be furnished by party entering
under soldiers' and sailors' homestead act; provision in case
this cannot be procured,

187

No land acquired under provisions of timber culture laws, shall be
liable to satisfaction of debts contracted prior to issuance of final
therefor,

190

Final, form of, for additional homesteads,

199

Final, form of, for timber culture homesteads,
Form of several certificates in making railroad selections,

202

342-346

Of local officers to lists of selections under railroad and State cor-
poration grants,

342-343

Of President and Engineer of railroads under grant thereto,

Of Surveyor-General to payment of costs of survey, &c., by Pacific
railroads,

St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad Company's right to its indemnity
lands attached when line was definitely located, not at date of
Governor's,

384

CERTIFICATE, Continued.

Title to a railroad may be avoided by suit in equity in name of
the United States,

From clerk of court to be sent up with final returns of register and
receiver in cases of certain private land claims,

Of incorporation of a company should be attached to its declara-
tory statement, under coal act,

CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSITS.

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401

453

673

756, 758

For money deposited for survey of townships, how used,
Are not transferable: erroneously transferred may be returned
and used by the rightful holder,

General Land Office furnishes no redress in case of transfers of,
CERTIFICATES OF LOCATION.

Instructions of August 26, 1872, relative to, for Louisiana private
land claims,

For settlement claims in Louisiana,

760

760

513

517

Can only be issued for such portion of a confirmed and located
private land claim as is found to be in conflict with a prior con-
firmation at the date of location,

Is full evidence of title in locations of private land scrip which
are not patentable,

CERTIFIED COPIES.

Of revolutionary bounty land scrip when issued,
Regulations relative to, of records, plats, &c., .

CHANGE OF RESIDENCE. (See Abandonment.)

Plaintiff has right to contest an entry on ground of, subsequent to
date of former trials,

CHARGES.

Registers and receivers are not allowed by law to make any, for
their services in accepting or entering pre-emption or home-
stead claims other than such as are set forth,

Minor orphan, claims of, under soldiers' and sailors' homestead
provisions; how initiated, can act only by duly appointed
guardians,

186

Minor orphan, applying for benefits of soldiers' and sailors' home-
stead provisions, must furnish evidence of military service of
father, and proof of death or marriage of mother,

187

CHIPPEWA INDIANS.

Mixed bloods; action on applications of certain, suspended,
Scrip locations or personal applications not yet patented to be sus-
pended,

CIRCULAR. (See List of Instructions at beginning of book.)

CITIZENS.

Heads of families, widows, or single men who are, or who have
declared intention to become, entitled to pre-empt,

181

Indians declared, &c.,

. 181

Entitled to homestead privilege,

182

Entitled to make entry under timber culture act,
Pre-emption claimant must show that he is a, or has declared in-
tention of becoming such,

189, 649

287

Only a, of the United States may enter coal lands who is engaged
in the actual bona fide business of coal mining for the purpose
of commerce,

Declarations of being a, not competent evidence in case of contest, 287
Admissions by party that he is not a, received as competent evi-
dence,

287

664

CITY. (See Town.)

Town or village lands within limits of California not confirmed to
State under act of July 23, 1866,

Inhabitants of a, granted privilege of entering land occupied as
town sites at minimum price of $1.25 per acre,

CLAIM.

Homestead, may be relinquished by party; land reverts to gov-
ernment; manner of proceeding in case of relinquishment,
The government, at the suggestion of even a stranger in interest,
may inquire into an illegal appropriation of the public land and
if the record shows a, has been illegally allowed will reverse its
action,

Under act of July 23, 1866, will not be rejected because claimant is
not in possession of entire purchase,.

Approval of, to certain Lake Superior band of Indians,
CLAIMANT.

Failure to file within legal period will defeat the, under act of July
23, 1866,

Entitled to benefits of 7th section, act of July 23, 1866, must have
"used, improved and continued in actual possession" of premises
claimed,

For rejected swamp-lands in Missouri, facts to be shown by,
Identity of, in case of application for reissue of lost scrip, must be
fully established, &c.,

CLASSES.

Two, of public lands, minimum and double minimum,
CLERICAL ERROR.

Should not be construed to prejudice a claim under homestead act
of June 8, 1872,

COAL ACT.

Application to enter school section in California under, received,
COAL ENTRY.

Must be made on legal subdivisions,
Is confined to surveyed lands,

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679

184

330

469

707

467

469

482

492

179

After being allowed, is not to be investigated except under instruct-
tions from General Land-Office,

668

Prior to, it is competent for the register and receiver to order an in-
vestigation,

No, can be allowed an association which has in it a party who has
made a,

670

671

671

Need not be in compact form,

. 672

COAL LAND CLAIMANT.

Not disqualified by owning other land, &c.,
Has no authority for following his coal veins under adjoining

667

land,

675

In conflicting, where improvements have been made prior to March
3, 1873, the land is to be awarded by legal subdivisions,

Are excluded from operation of the pre-emption law,

661

Disposed of to the highest bidder,

661

Must be noted by Deputy Surveyors,

661

Only citizens engaged in the actual bona fide business of coal min-

ing for the purposes of commerce can enter 160 acres @ $20 per
acre under act of 1865, .

664

Testimony required under this act,

664

Instructions under act of March 3, 1865,.

664

Instructions relative to, under act of March 3, 1873,

667

Sale of, provision for,

667