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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... poor man . The first thought of the former is to im- prove and embellish ; that of the latter is simply to acquire . The now wealthy man was at one time actuated by a similar impulse . Henceforth his ambition is to spend . As the poor ...
... poor man . The first thought of the former is to im- prove and embellish ; that of the latter is simply to acquire . The now wealthy man was at one time actuated by a similar impulse . Henceforth his ambition is to spend . As the poor ...
Side 4
... poor , while he to whom the precise spot has been pointed out wherein the precious deposit lies concealed , will , with a fraction of the same industry , become rich . To be successful in any thing , effort must be directed by ...
... poor , while he to whom the precise spot has been pointed out wherein the precious deposit lies concealed , will , with a fraction of the same industry , become rich . To be successful in any thing , effort must be directed by ...
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... poor Men pay for high - priced Farms — A practical Il- lustration - A Farm for the Right Man CHAPTER IV . More Opinions and Experiences - Some Objections — Addi- tional Light - Encouraging the Young - A personal His- tory - Getting an ...
... poor Men pay for high - priced Farms — A practical Il- lustration - A Farm for the Right Man CHAPTER IV . More Opinions and Experiences - Some Objections — Addi- tional Light - Encouraging the Young - A personal His- tory - Getting an ...
Side 10
... poor Farm - Struggling with limited Means - A Cry from a Working Man ... PAGE 103 CHAPTER VI . Wanting the Best - The Poorer Lands first Cultivated , then the Richer Ones - Value of Swamps - History of three of them - Cranberry Swamps ...
... poor Farm - Struggling with limited Means - A Cry from a Working Man ... PAGE 103 CHAPTER VI . Wanting the Best - The Poorer Lands first Cultivated , then the Richer Ones - Value of Swamps - History of three of them - Cranberry Swamps ...
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... poor man whose whole capital is the shilling on which he expects to dine and sup . It may be said , indeed , that it is the successful practice of this rule that constitutes the difference between the rich and the poor . It breaks down ...
... poor man whose whole capital is the shilling on which he expects to dine and sup . It may be said , indeed , that it is the successful practice of this rule that constitutes the difference between the rich and the poor . It breaks down ...
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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.