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 páginas |
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... portions of Europe had already been made acquainted with our true condition , by means of in- telligent agents sent there to circulate facts and in- formation ; while the subsequent movement in Con- gress in aid of immigration ...
... portions of Europe had already been made acquainted with our true condition , by means of in- telligent agents sent there to circulate facts and in- formation ; while the subsequent movement in Con- gress in aid of immigration ...
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... portion is fertile that it has been steadily absorbed by the rapidly increased population . In May , 1863 , there remained undisposed of , belonging to the Government of the United States , 964,901,625 acres . " To prevent any confusion ...
... portion is fertile that it has been steadily absorbed by the rapidly increased population . In May , 1863 , there remained undisposed of , belonging to the Government of the United States , 964,901,625 acres . " To prevent any confusion ...
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... portion of property which is thus actually taxed increased as follows : In 1791 ( esti- mated ) , $ 750,000,000 ; 1816 ( estimated ) , $ 1,800,000,000 ; 1850 ( official valuation ) , $ 7,135,780,228 ; 1860 ( official val- uation ) ...
... portion of property which is thus actually taxed increased as follows : In 1791 ( esti- mated ) , $ 750,000,000 ; 1816 ( estimated ) , $ 1,800,000,000 ; 1850 ( official valuation ) , $ 7,135,780,228 ; 1860 ( official val- uation ) ...
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... portion of the Union greatly animated not only the commerce of the Atlantic States , carrying those exports over their railways to the seaboard , but the manu- facturing industry of the Eastern States , that exchange the fabrics of ...
... portion of the Union greatly animated not only the commerce of the Atlantic States , carrying those exports over their railways to the seaboard , but the manu- facturing industry of the Eastern States , that exchange the fabrics of ...
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... portion of the temperate zone , the swelling stream of population , from the older Atlantic States and from Eu- rope , had steadily flowed during the last decade , increas- ing its previous population from 5,403,595 to 8,957,690 ; an ...
... portion of the temperate zone , the swelling stream of population , from the older Atlantic States and from Eu- rope , had steadily flowed during the last decade , increas- ing its previous population from 5,403,595 to 8,957,690 ; an ...
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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 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...
Página 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.