Compilation of Letters, Telegrams, Reports and Other Documents Offered in Evidence Before the Joint Committee of Congress, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
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Page 1062 - 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 States...
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Page 1239 - reclamation fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semiarid lands...
Page 1250 - as used in this act shall be understood to mean that certain act of the Congress of the United States approved June 17, 1902, entitled ' An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in •certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,' and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
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Page 1260 - The said charges shall be determined with a view of returning to the reclamation fund the estimated cost of construction of the project...
Page 1491 - It shall not be lawful for any person appointed after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, as an officer, clerk, or employee in any of the Departments, to act as counsel, attorney, or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States which was pending in either of said Departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employee...
Page 1251 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into full force and effect.
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| Title | Compilation of Letters, Telegrams, Reports and Other Documents Offered in Evidence Before the Joint Committee of Congress, Volume 2 Compilation of Letters, Telegrams, Reports and Other Documents Offered in Evidence Before the Joint Committee of Congress, United States. Congress. Joint committee to investigate Interior dept. and Forestry service. [from old catalog] |
| Author | United States. Congress. Joint committee to investigate Interior dept. and Forestry service. [from old catalog] |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 6 Apr 2007 |
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