Where to Emigrate and why: Describing Fully the Climate, Soil, Crops, Productions, Minerals, and General Resources. Quantity of Public Lands and how to Obtain Them. The Quality and Price of Improved Farm Lands in Nearly All Sections of the United States of America and Containing the Homestead and Naturalization Laws. Rates of Wages Throughout the Country. Railroad Fares to All Important Points. Together with a Mass of Valuable General Information Relating to the United States of America. Specially Intended and Adapted for the Guidance of Intending Emigrants, Whether of the Labouring, Professional, Capitalist, Or Any Other ClassAmerican Emigration Agency, 9B, New Broad Street, E.C., 1869 - 184 sider |
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Populære avsnitt
Side 147 - States, and that such application is made for his or her exclusive use and benefit, and that said entry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not either directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person...
Side 146 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Side 146 - ... person may have filed a preemption claim, or which may, at the time the application is made, be subject to preemption at one dollar and twenty-five cents...
Side 148 - ... residence, or abandoned the land for more than six months at any time, then and in that event the land so entered shall revert to the Government...
Side 147 - ... any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry ; or, if he be dead, his widow ; or, in case of her death, his heirs or devisee ; or in case of a widow making such entry, her heirs or devisee, in case of her death ; shall prove by two credible witnesses that he, she or they have resided upon or cultivated the same for the term of five years immediately succeeding the time of filing the affidavit...
Side 146 - That the person applying for the benefit of this act shall, upon application to the register of the land office in which he or she is about to make such entry, make affidavit...
Side 148 - ... the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the State in which such children for the time being have their...
Side 148 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Side 149 - Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to impair or interfere in any manner whatever with existing preemption rights: And provided, further, That all persons who may have filed their applications for a preemption right prior to the passage of this act, shall be entitled to all privileges of this act...
Side 149 - An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes...