...passed by the thirtyseventh Congress, May 20, 1862, and going into effect on and after January 1, 1863, entitled: "An Act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the Public Domain, to-wit: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in...

...bill was another influential factor affecting the distribution of the earlier immigration. This was an act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. The bill was approved May 20, 1862, and went into effect January 1, two years later. The gift substantially...

...the Tribune for June 5, 1860 t Ibid., May 7, 1860. channel over the St. Clair flats in Michigan,* and an act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,! and the Senate had killed a tariff bill sent from the House. Again and again in the A^ide Awake parades...

...bill was another influential factor affecting the distribution of the earlier immigration. This was an act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. The bill was approved May 20, 1862, and went into effect January 1, two years later. The gift substantially...

...bill was another influential factor affecting the distribution of the earlier immigration. This was an act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. The bill was approved May 20, 1862, and went into effect January 1, two years later. The gift substantially...

...eighteen hundred and forty-one, granting preemption rights, and the acts amendatory thereof, and of the act entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the amendments thereto, shall be, and the same are hereby,...

...to have an appreciative effect upon the money market." Lippincott's Magazine, LVIII, 234 (1896). 44 "An Act to secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain," US Statutes at Large, 1861-2, 392. ties spent from one to five years in Wisconsin or Illinois before...

...abandonment, under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, be entitled to the benefits of the act entitled “An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,” approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the acts amendatory thereof, except that the provisions...

...12 of the statutes. Thirty-seventh Congress, second session, chapter 75, of the act of May 28, 1862, "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain." the following language, "They shall reside upon. * * * cultivate same for a term of five years." Mr....

...Senate of the United States: I return with my objections to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled ' 'An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain, and for other purposes," presented to me on the aoth instant. This bill gives to every citizen of the...