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Page 417 - Where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication, it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and shall show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse claim, and all proceedings, except the publication of notice and making and filing of the affidavit thereof, shall be stayed until the controversy shall have been settled or decided by a Court of competent jurisdiction, or the adverse claim waived.
Page 419 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Page 429 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 412 - Provided: That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 422 - ... exempt from the payment of all taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under State, municipal, or local authority...
Page 275 - A line running from west to east along or near the twentieth parallel of north latitude, and through the middle of the navigable channel of...
Page 209 - At the same time the Commission should bear in mind, and the people of the Islands should be made plainly to understand, that there are certain great principles of government which have been made the basis of our governmental system which we deem essential to the rule of law and the maintenance of individual freedom...
Page 416 - A patent for any land claimed and located for valuable deposits may be obtained in the following manner : Any person, association, or corporation authorized to locate a claim under this chapter, having claimed and located a piece of land for such purposes...
Page 252 - Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, and the Mercantile Bank of India are authorised to issue notes in the Colony, the total circulation amounting to $58,974,108 at the close of 1923.
Page 418 - ... claim, made after the ninth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person or association of persons, which location shall conform to the United States surveys; and nothing in this section contained shall defeat or impair any bona fide preemption or homestead claim upon agricultural lands, or authorize the sale of the improvements of any bona fide settler to any purchaser.
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| Title | Official Handbook of the Philippines and Catalogue of the Philippine Exhibit: In Two Volumes ... Description of the Philippines: Revised and Completed with the Aid of Chiefs of Bureaus and Experts of the Philippine Government, United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs Louisiana purchase exposition Part 1 of Official Handbook of the Philippines and Catalogue of the Philippine Exhibit: In Two Volumes, Gustavo Niederlein |
| Authors | Philippines. Exposition Board, William Powell Wilson |
| Publisher | Bureau of Public Printing, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 449 pages |
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