Decisions Of The Department Of The Interior In Cases Relating To The Public Lands Vol 47

Excerpt from Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Vol. 47: January 1, 1919-January 31, 1921 Where an application is filed by one duly qualified under the provisions of the act of March 28, 1912, for the sale of a tract of land mountainous or too rough for cultivation, jurisdiction is thereby conferred upon the Com missioner of the General Land Office in the exercise of discretion to order into market and sell at public auction such tract; and the intervening loss of qualification of the applicant does not affect the jurisdiction thus acquired. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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