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 1028
... Congress . " The first objection has been sufficiently answered in considering the nature of the claim of the city ... Congress . Thus , in the preemption act of May 29 , 1830 , it is provided that the right of preemption contemplated by ...
... Congress . " The first objection has been sufficiently answered in considering the nature of the claim of the city ... Congress . Thus , in the preemption act of May 29 , 1830 , it is provided that the right of preemption contemplated by ...
Page 1029
... Congress in appropriating moneys for the construction of fortifications and other public works upon them . The ... Congress , and also to give Congress opportunity to so change or modify the public land laws that these particular lands ...
... Congress in appropriating moneys for the construction of fortifications and other public works upon them . The ... Congress , and also to give Congress opportunity to so change or modify the public land laws that these particular lands ...
Page 1030
... Congress or convey away public lands in disregard or defiance thereof . " * * * Article 1 , section 8 , paragraph 18 , of the Constitution provides " that Congress shall have power * to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper ...
... Congress or convey away public lands in disregard or defiance thereof . " * * * Article 1 , section 8 , paragraph 18 , of the Constitution provides " that Congress shall have power * to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper ...
Page 1031
... Congress . " ( United States v . Blendauer , 122 Fed . , 707. ) In the case of the Fort Boise Reservation , 6 Land Decision 16 , the Secretary of the Interior had under consideration a reservation by the War Department of certain lands ...
... Congress . " ( United States v . Blendauer , 122 Fed . , 707. ) In the case of the Fort Boise Reservation , 6 Land Decision 16 , the Secretary of the Interior had under consideration a reservation by the War Department of certain lands ...
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... Congress , and the court said : " It was urged at the bar that the Postmaster - General was alone subject to the direc- tion and control of the President with respect to the execution of the duty imposed upon him by law ; and this right ...
... Congress , and the court said : " It was urged at the bar that the Postmaster - General was alone subject to the direc- tion and control of the President with respect to the execution of the duty imposed upon him by law ; and this right ...
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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...
Page 1488 - All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or of any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void...
Page 1488 - ... after the allowance of such a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due, and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof.
Page 1033 - In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them : the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
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.
Page 1504 - ... that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
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.