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16 hectares agricultural amount application Area in acres attorney Banilad Biñan Bureau of Insular bureau of public Calamba CARPENTER cent completed CHAIRMAN committee Congress corporation CRUMPACKER cultivation Dampol DEL-PAN director of lands DOUGLAS estate-Continued fact Filipinos Francisco de Malabon friar estates friar lands GARRETT Gregorio Guiguinto HAMILTON HAMMOND HAVEMEYER hectares hereby Imus Insular Affairs interest Interior JONES José Juan July kapok lease lessee MADISON Malinta Manila Maria Mariano MARLIN E MARTIN matter ment Mindoro Development Muntinlupa Naic Name of purchaser Nueva Ecija occupants Parcels pur PARSONS party payment Pedro Philippine Commission Philippine Government Philippine Islands Piedad Poole Province public lands public-land act question record reference rental Reyes RUCKER sale certificate San Jose estate Santa Rosa Secretary Secretary of War SLEEPER sold statement sugar lands surveys Tala estate tenants tion Total tract unoccupied Vicente VILLAMOR WELCH WORCESTER
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Page 476 - That whenever by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 337 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 476 - That all patents granted shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 474 - After such judgment shall have been rendered, the party entitled to the possession of the claim, or any portion thereof...
Page 470 - That no law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for redress of grievances.
Page 476 - ... and, to the end that the Commissioner may be fully informed on the subject, each applicant shall file with the Register a sworn statement of all charges and fees paid by such applicant for publication and surveys, together with all fees and money paid. the Register and the Receiver of the Land Office, which statement shall be transmitted, with the other papers in the case, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Page 336 - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 476 - ... nonadjacent surface ground may be embraced and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same may be patented therewith...
Page 482 - Bureau shall embrace all matters pertaining to civil government in the island possessions of the United States subject to the jurisdiction of the War Department...
Page 326 - ... on payment of ten dollars, he or she shall thereupon be permitted to enter the quantity of land specified: Provided, however, 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...