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 FarmersJ. Miller, 1864 - 345 sider |
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Side 24
... building up the Northwest with a rapidity which is most wonderful , and with a strength of basis which cannot be toppled over . They have contributed nobly to the nation in putting down the rebellion . They will contribute even more ...
... building up the Northwest with a rapidity which is most wonderful , and with a strength of basis which cannot be toppled over . They have contributed nobly to the nation in putting down the rebellion . They will contribute even more ...
Side 51
... buildings , are to be provided after the colony is located , and these things bring heavy taxes upon every individual for a dozen years or more . man getting a living at the East should think twice before he goes into the wilderness ...
... buildings , are to be provided after the colony is located , and these things bring heavy taxes upon every individual for a dozen years or more . man getting a living at the East should think twice before he goes into the wilderness ...
Side 58
... buildings , say 100 acres , at $ 20 per acre - pays one- half down , balance in ten years , interest annually . What will now be his condition at 50 years of age ? Perhaps not as wealthy as in the first case , with equally good luck in ...
... buildings , say 100 acres , at $ 20 per acre - pays one- half down , balance in ten years , interest annually . What will now be his condition at 50 years of age ? Perhaps not as wealthy as in the first case , with equally good luck in ...
Side 76
... buildings , etc. This is undoubtedly true as re- gards those with plenty of money to buy with ; and such farms are sometimes the cheapest for those with limited means . There are many farms where the land - naturally good — is in a fair ...
... buildings , etc. This is undoubtedly true as re- gards those with plenty of money to buy with ; and such farms are sometimes the cheapest for those with limited means . There are many farms where the land - naturally good — is in a fair ...
Side 85
... building , the farm is now worth $ 13,000 . Many young men , who commenced with nothing , have now good homes , surrounded with all the comforts of life . Working a farm on shares , he thinks is quite as profitable for a young man as ...
... building , the farm is now worth $ 13,000 . Many young men , who commenced with nothing , have now good homes , surrounded with all the comforts of life . Working a farm on shares , he thinks is quite as profitable for a young man as ...
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How to Get a Farm, and where to Find One: Showing that Homesteads May be Had ... Edmund Morris Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1864 |
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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 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...
Side 20 - That the register of the land office shall note all such applications on the tract books and plats of his office, and keep a register of all such entries, and make return thereof to the General Land Office, together with the proof upon which they have been founded.