PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS-MEXICAN GRANTS-Continued. SECTION. Issuance and location of judicial scrip in lieu of confirmed private land claims...... 516 PUBLIC DOMAIN, THE. Definition of the public domain, and how acquired... Cessions by states Cession by France.. I 2 3 PUBLIC SALES AND PRIVATE ENTRIES. The different modes of obtaining title to public lands.... In the Louisiana purchase.... In California..... Beds of navigable lakes.. Public sale of lands in half quarter-sections. Advertisement of sale.. Price of lands-$1.25 per acre... 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 No credit on sales of public lands. Land raised to $2.50 per acre prior to January, 1861, reduced to $1.25 Public lands may be offered for sale in such proportions as the Pres- ident may choose.. 43 Duration of sales..... 44 Several certificates issued to two or more purchasers of same section. 45 46 Private sales, proceedings in... 47 Highest bidder, when preferred in private sales.. 48 Minimum price, how fixed when reservations are sold... 49 Lands in California subject to private entry and withdrawn, how to PUBLIC SALES AND PRIVATE ENTRIES-Continued. Error in entry by mistake of numbers...... Agreement and acts intended to prevent bids.. Sales of saline lands.... RAILROAD GRANTS. Grants prior to 1862 To states for railroads.. SECTION. 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 Grant to Union Pacific railroad Grant to Northern Pacific, Atlantic & Pacific, and Southern Pacific railroads.... .. General classification of grants. Grant to California and Oregon railroads.. Grant to Central Pacific railroad.. Grant to Texas Pacific railroad.. Definite line of railroads.... Rights of way for railroads. Forfeiture Settlers' rights on these grants. Grants in præsenti....... Certification to railroad corporations, effects of mortgage. 517 518 520 521 522 227 528 529 530 531 532 534 535 535 Purchase money refunded where sale can not be confirmed.. 476 Refunding in certain cases, how done..... 477 Repayments on soldiers' void additional homestead locations... 478 Purchase money, fees, and commissions on erroneous entries, or where Sale of military sites under general laws, how prohibited... There are 114 of these rules, which should all be carefully observed. Number of acres to be broken and planted annually. 272 Contestants of timber culture entries allowed thirty days after notice No more than 2,560 acres to be reserved for town site.. 310 Patents, pre-emptions, and homesteads subject to vested water rights. 458 Conditions for use of water on public lands for reclamation.. 459 Navigable rivers within public land to be public highways.... 460 |