Annual Report - The Secretary of the InteriorThe Department, 1909 |
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Page 7 - ... timber-culture act, the coal land and the mining acts were among these. The rapid disposition of the public lands under the early statutes, and the lax methods of distribution prevailing, due, I think. to the belief that these lands should rapidly pass into private ownership, gave rise to the impression that the public domain was legitimate prey for the unscrupulous, and that it was not contrary to good morals to circumvent the land laws. This prodigal manner of disposition resulted in the passing...
Page 50 - ... section 6 of which requires the corporation to annually file with the Secretary of the Interior a report, in writing, stating in detail the property, real and personal, held by the corporation, and the expenditure or other use or disposition of the same or the income thereof during the preceding year, has for its object the promotion of education within the United States. The corporation owns no real estate, its property consisting of securities and money divided into various funds, according...
Page 5 - Washington is laborIng under a great disadvantage in trying to introduce modern business methods and to keep pace with the increasing volume of work, because of its inability to retire members of the clerical and laboring force after they have become Incapacitated by age or other causes. Intermittent efforts have been made to secure congressional aid to retire them upon a basis that will recognize their long service and protect them against want. An involuntary retirement and sustenance statute,...
Page 10 - ... -be estimated for the purpose of valuation on the basis of 1,000 tons recovery per acre-foot. (9) The coal price of lands of class D shall be the minimum provided by law, $20 per acre when within 15 miles of a railroad and $10 per acre when at a greater distance. (10) In all valuations of coal lands any special conditions enhancing the value of the land for coal-mining purposes shall be taken into consideration. (11) When only a part of a smallest legal subdivision is underlain by coal the price...
Page 17 - Territories, and over 55 per cent of the appropriation for geologic surveys was expended in the 16 public-land States and Territories. In connection with the landclassification work, about 16,000 square miles of supposed coal territory in the Rocky Mountain region was examined.
Page 51 - Said company shall make a report on the first Monday of December in each year to the Secretary of the Interior, which shall be duly verified...
Page 21 - June 30, 1908, the total sum of $50,661,549.27, and the net investments from which in reclamation works on June 30, 1909, amounted to the sum of $45,757,918.94. The cash receipts from water-right charges to June 30, 1909, were: Building charges, $299,841.22; operation and maintenance charges, $70,825.88, total, $370,667.10. Because of the magnitude of the work and the desirability of making plans far in advance, it has been found necessary to make estimates of the amounts that will become available...
Page 51 - MARITIME CANAL COMPANY OF NICARAGUA. Section 6 of the act of Congress approved February 20, 1889, entitled "An act to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua...
Page 50 - Statutes to the extent that said section provides for the education of the blind children of the District of Columbia, and that the permanent indefinite appropriation in question is still available for instructing the blind children of all persons in the military and naval service of the United States, in some institution in Maryland or some other State, and that the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to continue to issue permits for the instruction of such children. No permits for this class...
Page 23 - That it is hereby declared to be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the provisions of this act, so far as the same may be practicable and subject to the existence of feasible irrigation projects, to expend the major portion of the funds arising from the sale of public lands within each State and Territory hereinbefore named for the benefit of arid and semiarid lands within the limits of such State or Territory...