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 páginas |
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... Lands - Free Farms- The Homestead Law - Its Friends and Enemies - Settlers in Wisconsin - Germans in the Union ... Land valuable - Prices balancing each other- How poor Men pay for high - priced Farms - A practical Il- lustration ...
... Lands - Free Farms- The Homestead Law - Its Friends and Enemies - Settlers in Wisconsin - Germans in the Union ... Land valuable - Prices balancing each other- How poor Men pay for high - priced Farms - A practical Il- lustration ...
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... Lands .. CHAPTER XI . The West - Illinois , and the Central Railroad Lands - Cli- mate , Soil , and Productions - Vine - growing in Missouri- Free Lands in the Territories .. PAGE 228 253 CHAPTER XII . Land in the South - Effect of ...
... Lands .. CHAPTER XI . The West - Illinois , and the Central Railroad Lands - Cli- mate , Soil , and Productions - Vine - growing in Missouri- Free Lands in the Territories .. PAGE 228 253 CHAPTER XII . Land in the South - Effect of ...
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... Lands - Free Farms - The Homestead Law - Its Friends and Enemies - Settlers in Wis- consin - Germans in the Union - Immigration - A Southern Homestead Law - Continued Grants of Public Land . THE buyer of a commodity seeks to purchase it ...
... Lands - Free Farms - The Homestead Law - Its Friends and Enemies - Settlers in Wis- consin - Germans in the Union - Immigration - A Southern Homestead Law - Continued Grants of Public Land . THE buyer of a commodity seeks to purchase it ...
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... land as one man ought to possess . The vast public domain of the Union has been thrown open for them to enter in upon it as a gift . No such munificence has been displayed by any other government , either ancient or modern . When the ...
... land as one man ought to possess . The vast public domain of the Union has been thrown open for them to enter in upon it as a gift . No such munificence has been displayed by any other government , either ancient or modern . When the ...
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... land , and hence its bitter opposition to the free - soil scheme . Such settlers would be working men , mostly from the Free States , who would not only till the soil with their own hands , but would build school - houses , establish ...
... land , and hence its bitter opposition to the free - soil scheme . Such settlers would be working men , mostly from the Free States , who would not only till the soil with their own hands , but would build school - houses , establish ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...