How to Get a Farm, and where to Find One: Showing that Homesteads May be Had by Those Desirous of Securing Them, with the Public Law on the Subject of Free Homes, and Suggestions from Practical Farmers : Together with Numerous Successful, Experiences of Others, Though Beginning with Little of Nothing, Have Recome the Owners of Ample FarmsJames Miller, (successor to C.S. Francis & Company) 522 Broadway, 1864 - 345 sider |
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... , expended a dollar in improvements . I treat almost exclusively of gradual increase of value , and only in- cidentally of sudden enhancement . Incidents of the latter do occur without the owner's having ever contemplated 4 PREFACE .
... , expended a dollar in improvements . I treat almost exclusively of gradual increase of value , and only in- cidentally of sudden enhancement . Incidents of the latter do occur without the owner's having ever contemplated 4 PREFACE .
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... improvements , as well as their crops , and re- ceived candid replies to all inquiries as to how they liked their new locations , and how they were suc- ceeding . The facts thus acquired are reported with- out suppression or ...
... improvements , as well as their crops , and re- ceived candid replies to all inquiries as to how they liked their new locations , and how they were suc- ceeding . The facts thus acquired are reported with- out suppression or ...
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... Improvements - New Towns - Hammonton , Egg Harbor City , Vineland , its history , condition , and future— The neighboring Lands .. CHAPTER XI . The West - Illinois , and the Central Railroad Lands - Cli- mate , Soil , and Productions ...
... Improvements - New Towns - Hammonton , Egg Harbor City , Vineland , its history , condition , and future— The neighboring Lands .. CHAPTER XI . The West - Illinois , and the Central Railroad Lands - Cli- mate , Soil , and Productions ...
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... improved ' land , thereby mean- ing farms more or less cultivated , within their limits , from 26,680,361 acres , in 1850 , to 51,826,395 , in 1860 ; but leaving a residue , yet to be improved , of 230,308,293 acres . The area of ...
... improved ' land , thereby mean- ing farms more or less cultivated , within their limits , from 26,680,361 acres , in 1850 , to 51,826,395 , in 1860 ; but leaving a residue , yet to be improved , of 230,308,293 acres . The area of ...
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... improving every year , but they are better now than ever before . " But in answering your correspondent , I do not propose to go into the details of my own experience , but rather , as briefly as may be , try to point out the best ...
... improving every year , but they are better now than ever before . " But in answering your correspondent , I do not propose to go into the details of my own experience , but rather , as briefly as may be , try to point out the best ...
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Side 324 - In traversing that county, one will discover numerous farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted and dilapidated ; he will observe fields, once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned, and covered with those evil harbingers, fox-tail and broomsedge ; he will see the moss growing on the mouldering walls of once thrifty villages, and will find ' one only master grasps the whole domain,' that once furnished happy nomes for a dozen white...
Side 18 - 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 19 - That no certificate shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry ; and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry — or if he be dead, his widow ; or, in case of her death...
Side 21 - 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...
Side 18 - ... person may have filed a pre-emption claim, or which may at the time the application is made, be subject to preemption at one dollar and twenty-five cents...
Side 19 - ... will bear true allegiance to the Government of the United States; then, in such case, he, she, or they, if at that time citizens of the United States, shall be entitled to a patent, as in other cases provided by law.
Side 172 - The first thing that drew his attention was a heap of coals shot out of carts on the pavement before a house. He offered himself to shovel or wheel them into the place where they were to be laid, and was employed.
Side 20 - 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 18 - ... at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be located in a body, in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, and after the same shall have been surveyed...