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  2. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Preemption Act of 1841 allowed settlers to claim up to 160 acres of federal land for themselves and prevent its sale to others including large landowners or corporations; they paid only a low fixed price of $1.25 per acre ($3.09 per hectare). [13]

  3. Land claim - Wikipedia

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    A mining claim is the claim of the right to extract minerals from a tract of public land. In the United States, the practice began with the California gold rush of 1849. In the absence of organized government, the miners in each new mining camp made up their own rules, and to a large extent adopted Mexican mining law.

  4. Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations - Wikipedia

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    The Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations implements the land consolidation component of the Cobell v. Salazar Settlement, which provided $1.9 billion to purchase fractional interests in trust or restricted land from willing sellers at fair market value. Consolidated interests are immediately restored to tribal trust ownership for uses ...

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    That’s why we—and several Reddit users—recommend this dual-handle snow shovel. The handles are designed to act like a fulcrum, which eliminates the need to bend while scooping and tossing.

  6. Indian Land Claims Settlements - Wikipedia

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    The Mohegan Sun, developed on land taken in trust for the Mohegan as a product of settlement. Indian Land Claims Settlements are settlements of Native American land claims by the United States Congress, codified in 25 U.S.C. ch. 19. In several instances, these settlements ended live claims of aboriginal title in the United States. The first two ...

  7. United States Court of Private Land Claims - Wikipedia

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    Up to 1500 farmers participated and had much wider sympathy among the Mexican Land Grant communities. So, in 1891, 42 years after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the U.S. Congress created the Court of Private Land Claims consisting of five justices appointed for a term to expire on December 31, 1895. The court itself was to exist only during ...

  8. Claim club - Wikipedia

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    Claim clubs, also called actual settlers' associations or squatters' clubs, were a nineteenth-century phenomenon in the American West.Usually operating within a confined local jurisdiction, these pseudo-governmental entities sought to regulate land sales in places where there was little or no legal apparatus to deal with land-related quarrels of any size. [1]

  9. 59 Crimes That Took Planning And Precision To A Whole New Level

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    Image credits: tereddits #2. A friend of my brother's named Dave habitually ditched high school. One winter we got a pretty good snowstorm and his dad made him shovel the sidewalk before he left ...