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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... million of acres were taken up under its provisions , and , by the close of September , this amount was increased to nearly a million and a half . But the great bulk of enterprising and ad- venturous Americans have either been drawn ...
... million of acres were taken up under its provisions , and , by the close of September , this amount was increased to nearly a million and a half . But the great bulk of enterprising and ad- venturous Americans have either been drawn ...
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... millions . When this volume was ready for the press , the settlement of the public lands , under the provisions of the Homestead Law , was rapidly increasing . Some portions of Europe had already been made acquainted with our true ...
... millions . When this volume was ready for the press , the settlement of the public lands , under the provisions of the Homestead Law , was rapidly increasing . Some portions of Europe had already been made acquainted with our true ...
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... million , it threatened the very life of the oli- garchy which had so long stood in its way . The slave- holders understood this perfectly ; and hence they resisted it , reinforced by their Northern allies , with all the zeal and ...
... million , it threatened the very life of the oli- garchy which had so long stood in its way . The slave- holders understood this perfectly ; and hence they resisted it , reinforced by their Northern allies , with all the zeal and ...
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... millions of landless men , who have since gone down to their graves in the weary conflict with poverty and hardship , would have been cheered and blest with independent homes on the public domain . Wealth incalculable , quarried from ...
... millions of landless men , who have since gone down to their graves in the weary conflict with poverty and hardship , would have been cheered and blest with independent homes on the public domain . Wealth incalculable , quarried from ...
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... millions who need them , and thus guard their most precious rights and interests against the remorseless exactions of capital and the pitiless rapacity of avarice . " The reading of a law so comprehensive as this will naturally induce a ...
... millions who need them , and thus guard their most precious rights and interests against the remorseless exactions of capital and the pitiless rapacity of avarice . " The reading of a law so comprehensive as this will naturally induce a ...
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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.