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Coal 



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Coal deposits, development not trespass, decision. 43 



disposal in development of other mines, decisions 43 



lands, entry as agricultural lands, statutes, list 43 



mineral lands, decision 43 



persons disqualified, decision 43 



preemption, etc., requirements (R. S., 2347, 2348, 2349, 2350, 



2351) 42-43 



prospecting tunnels not improvements, decision 43 



National Forests, use by nonowners prohibited, decision 1. 43 



Colorado, forest reserves changes, control (34 Stat. L., 1256) '. 5 



increase forbidden (36 Stat. L., 847) 9 



general land laws 46-49 



Commerce and Labor, Secretary, administration of employees' compensation 



act (35 Stat. L., 556) 15, 16 



Commutation, homestead claims 23, 24, 27, 29, 31 



Concealed weapons, permission to carry 18 



Condemnation of private lands for highways, railroads, etc. (18 Stat. L., 482).. 51-52 



Congress, act necessary to change forest reserves (34 Stat. L., 1256) 5 



enactments affecting particular National Forests 9 



Congressmen, members of Forest Reservation Commission 10 



Contests, claim, preference rights . 



homestead claims, decisions 30 



Contracts, timber-sale, abandoned, disposal of timber, and refund 61 



decisions applicable 61-62 



modification by Government officials 61 



Contributions, cooperative, to constitute a special fund (34 Stat. L., 669) 76 



Cooperation, enforcement of fire protection, fish and game laws (35 Stat. L., 251) 15 



Secretary of Agriculture with State authorities 17 



State, for protection of watersheds of navigable streams, enabling 



act, 1911 (36 Stat. L., 961) 10-12 



with State road systems (37 Stat. L., 269) 17 



Cooperative contributions to constitute a special fund (34 Stat. L., 669) 76 



Corporations, acquisition of coal lands by individual stockholders, decision 44 



Costs, prosecution of forest officers by outsiders, decision 79 



Creditors' claim, exemption of employees' compensation for injuries (35 Stat. 



L., 556) 16 



Crystalline deposits, entry under mineral law, decision 38-3 



Cultivation, homestead entries, requirements, decisions 29-30 



homesteads, requirements (37 Stat. L., 123) 24-25 



Death, accidental, of employee, affidavit (35 Stat. L. , 556) 16 



Decisions, coal-land 43-44 



desert-land 49-51 



fiscal management, appropriations and refunds 79-82 



homestead 27-30 



mineral springs 41-42 



mining 37-41 



operation 17-18 



rights of way 55-58 



school land 49-50 



timber and stone land 45-66 



cutting, rights on public lands 69-71 



sale contracts 61-62 



trespass cases 69-75 



Declaratory statements, abandoned, disqualifies for new entry of coal lands, 



decision 43 



Deficiency appropriation act, 1899, authority of Secretary of Interior [Agricul- 

 ture] to approve right of way for highways, extract 51 



Defiles, joint use by railroads, highways, etc. (18 Stat. L., 482) . 51 



Dennett, Fred, Commissioner, General Land Office, instructions on claims (39 



L.D.,458).! 18-19 



Depredations, forest, regulations for prevention (30 Stat. L., 11) 



Desert land, definition (19 Stat. L., 377) 47 



entries restricted to surveyed lands (35 Stat. L. , 52) 48 



under former acts, preservation of rights (26 Stat. L., 1095). 47-48 

 homestead entries... 26 



