Alphabetical List of Private Claims which Were Brought Before the Senate...from 1903 To...1905

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Página 96 - If any citizen of the United States, or other person not being an Indian, shall attempt to settle on any of the lands...
Página 50 - There shall be allowed and paid to each commissioned officer below the rank of brigadier general, including chaplains and others having assimilated rank or pay. ten per centum of their current yearly pay for each term of five years of service.
Página 98 - An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, and to settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated lands within the same,' passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Página 30 - That on and after the passage of this act all officers of the Army of the United States who have served as officers in the volunteer forces during the War of the Rebellion, or as enlisted men in the Armies of the United States, Regular or Volunteer, shall be, and are hereby, credited with the full time they may have served as such officers and as such enlisted men in computing their service for longevity pay and retirement.
Página 100 - An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tennessee...
Página 96 - ... hereby intended to be ceded to the United States, shall have the same force and effect as if such cession had not been made; and that all and every right of occupancy and pre-emption and every other right reserved by any act or acts to persons settled on and occupying lands within the limits of the lands hereby intended to be ceded as aforesaid, shall continue to be in full force in the same manner as if the cession had not been made, and as conditions upon which the said lands are ceded to the...
Página 96 - The boundary allotted to the Cherokees for their hunting grounds, between the said Indians and the citizens of the United States, within the limits of the United States of America, is, and shall be the following, viz.
Página 96 - Holston ; thence to the Chimneytop mountain ; thence to Camp creek, near the mouth of Big Limestone, on Nolichuckey ; thence a southerly course six miles to a mountain ; thence south to the North Carolina line ; thence to the South Carolina Indian boundary, and along the same southwest over the top of the Oconee mountain till it shall strike Tugalo river ; thence a direct line to the top of the Currahee mountain ; thence to the head of the south fork of Oconee river.
Página 328 - That all officers of Volunteers now in commission, the rank of brigadier general, who shall continue in the military service to the close of the war, shall be entitled to receive upon being mustered out of said service three months
Página 296 - The magazines are well supplied with powder, and there are large quantities of shot, shells, and other munitions of war, and also great quantities of provisions. Four steamers afloat have fallen into our hands, and two others, with the rebel gunboat Grampus, are sunk, but will be easily raised.

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