Miscellaneous Private Relief, Fee Exemption, Land Conveyances, Boundary Adjustment, and Amendments to the Volunteers in the Parks Act of 1979: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 482 ... S. 508 ... S. 598 ... S. 600 ... S. 620 ... S. 807 ... S. 864 ... and S. 1160 ... June 27, 1983

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Halaman 146 - ... no person or association of persons shall hold, by assignment or otherwise prior to the issue of patent, more than three hundred and twenty acres of such arid or desert lands...
Halaman 8 - Representa2 lives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That, notwithstanding any other provision of law...
Halaman 146 - It does not matter by what name the parties chose to designate it. That does not determine its character. The courts look beyond mere names and within to see the real nature of an agreement and determine from all its provisions, taken together, and not from the name that has been given it by the parties, or from some isolated provision, its legal character and effect.
Halaman 57 - I would be happy to answer any questions you or Members of the Subcommittee may have. Mr.
Halaman 96 - For the establishment of a Public Land Law Review Commission to study existing laws and . procedures relating to the administration of the public lands of the United States, and for other purposes...
Halaman 176 - Provided, however, That this act shall only apply to any person who at the time of receiving such assignment was without notice of any fraud in the entry assigned or in any annual proof made concerning the same: Provided further, That patent shall not issue to any such assignee unless he shall affirmatively establish, by his evidence, under oath, good faith and lack of notice of fraud, and by the testimony, under oath, of himself and at least two witnesses that.
Halaman 145 - ... But as the law does not require affidavit before final certificate that no interest in the land has been sold, we perceive no reason why such contract as was found to exist by the supreme court of Oregon would vitiate the agreement to convey after the certificate is granted and the patent issued. If the entryman has complied with the statute and made the entry in good faith, in accordance with the terms of the law...
Halaman 145 - We may assume for the purposes of decision that the agreement and mortgage were not unlawful on their face and that the defendant took pains to make them known to the authorities; but obviously they might be made an instrument for the scheme alleged. They were prepared in contemplation of a plan to collect old soldiers for the purpose of making entries, the defendant paying an agent five dollars a piece for every contract brought in. The defendant admitted that he looked to the land, not to the soldiers,...
Halaman 46 - Secretary determines that the sale of such tract meets the following disposal criteria: (1) such tract because of its location or other characteristics is difficult and uneconomic to manage as part of the public lands, and Is not suitable for management by another Federal department or agency; or (2) such tract was acquired for a specific purpose and the tract Is no longer required for that or any other Federal purpose...
Halaman 188 - ... that it was a construction of the law by the head of the Department charged with the execution of it, and the law was administered according to this construction; that it made no difference that the construction of the law has changed; that the sound and true rule is, that if the contract, when made, was valid by the law as then interpreted and administered, its validity and obligation can not be impaired by any subsequent decisions altering the construction of the law.

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