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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 229, CIVIL RIGHTS BILL: Library of Economics and Liberty |
 | | Cognizance of offenses against the act was entirely taken away from state courts and given to federal courts. | | | Officers of the United States courts or of the freedmen's bureau, and special executive agents, were charged with the execution of the act. | | | The president was authorized to use the services of special agents, of the army and navy, or of the militia, to enforce the act. |
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http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy229.html
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| | sg870107.txt |
| | Locke, 471 U.S. The 1872 Act also authorizes the claimant to obtain a patent by paying a nominal sum to the United States. | | | Both the Alaska Statehood Act and the state statutory scheme were enacted against the background of the distinction that then existed (and still exists) under federal law between the system of mineral location under the Mining Act of 1872, ch. | | | The Supreme Court of Alaska correctly held that the courts of that State are not precluded by Section 6(i) of the Alaska Statehood Act from entertaining an action seeking a declaratory judgment regarding the validity of the State's hard-rock mining laws under Section 6(i). |
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http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/1987/sg870107.txt
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| | JOHNSON, ANDREW - Online Information article about JOHNSON, ANDREW |
| | In 1872 it was estimated that the public debts of the eleven reconstructed states amounted to nearly $132,000,000, two-thirds of which was composed of guarantees to corporations, chiefly railway companies. | | | opinion of the court denying that they were legal tender in settlement of contracts made before the first Legal Tender Act, and intimating that they were not legal tender for later contracts. | | | In 1871 the former decision was reversed and the constitutionality of the Legal Tender Acts sustained on loose-construction reasoning. |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/JEE_JUN/JOHNSON_ANDREW.html
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| | Amnesty Proclamations |
| | In May 1872 the Congressional Amnesty Act gave the right to hold office again to almost all Southern leaders who had been excluded from public office by the 14th Amendment. | | | The Confiscation Act of 1862 authorized the president of the United States to pardon anyone involved in the rebellion. | | | The Amnesty Proclamation of December 8, 1863, offered pardons to those who had not held a Confederate civil office, had not mistreated Union prisoners, and would sign an oath of allegiance. |
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http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/AftermathAndReconstruction/amnestyproclamations.html
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| | mining. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Another act that affects mining in the United States is the 1872 Mining Act. | | | Several pieces of legislation in the United States, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (1977) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or Superfund Act (1986), address these issues, but enforcement has been difficult. | | | Under certain circumstances surface mining can become prohibitively expensive and underground mining may be considered. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/mi/mining.html
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| | Mining and Mineral Leasing |
| | Mining Act of 1872, as amended (30 U.S.C. 21, et seq.) authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for the so-called "hardrock" minerals (such as gold and silver) on public lands. | | | Mining and Mineral Leasing: several laws govern mining and activities related to mineral leasing on public lands, including refuges, except as specific provisions are made otherwise. | | | Federal Coal Leasing Amendment Act of 1976, in section 16, provided that nothing in the Mining Act, the Mineral Leasing Act, or the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands authorized mining coal on refuges (90 Stat. |
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http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/minemin.html
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| | sg860450.txt |
| | The district court concluded that it is. The court of appeals reversed, holding that federal law precludes the application of state permitting requirements. | | | Elkhorn Mining Co., 163 U.S. The holder of a perfected mining claim may obtain a federal patent to the land by verifying his location of a valuable mining claim, complying with various notice and recording requirements, and paying required fees. | | | Section 601 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to review whether an area "may be unsuitable for mining operations" because of "an adverse impact on lands used primarily for residential or related purposes" (30 U.S.C. 1281(a) and (b)). |
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http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/1986/sg860450.txt
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| | Publications and Information Resources |
| | The General Mining Act of 1872 provides that all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States should be open to exploration and purchase by U.S. citizens. | | | Any person intending to surface mine for coal must obtain a permit issued by the state under an approved state plan or by the federal government if there is no approved state plan. | | | Individual states may enact distinct mining regulations and create state agencies to regulate mining activity on both state-owned and private lands. |
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http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal26/us18.htm
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| | policy.txt |
| | The Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970 is now a prologue to the General Mining Act of 1872. | | | The General Mining Act of 1872, and its antecedents, the Lode Law of 1866, and the Placer Act of 1870, simply codified what the miners, their bankers, and local governments had worked out for themselves in the absence of a workable national minerals policy prior to 1866 (Sokoloski and Deery, 1997). | | | Presently, the Act is under fire by those seeking to prevent damage to the environment, and their strategies include calls for repeal, or the imposition of royalties to make claim patenting much more costly (Feriancek, 2000a§). |
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http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/of02-418/policy.txt
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| | "Capitol Hill's longest-running outrage" by Dale Bumpers |
| | When I first heard about the 1872 Mining Law, I was incredulous. | | | While the desire for campaign contributions from mining interests is certainly one explanation for many legislators' unwillingness to reform the Mining Law, it is not the only one. | | | However, a large number of senators, most of whom have no mining in their states, continue to vote with the Western bloc. |
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1998/9801.bumpers.html
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| | The General Mining Act of 1872 has left a legacy of riches and ruin |
| | Over the years, public lands the size of Connecticut have been made private under terms of the 1872 law, all for $2.50 to $5 an acre, though not all of it has been used for mining. | | | Like other Canadian companies, it was allowed to mine on U.S. federal land even though Congress in 1872 specifically limited the privileges of the General Mining Law to "citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such." | | | Congress has acted over the years to rein in some abuses allowed under the act, but problems persist, and the debate over the future of Western lands continues. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/mining/26875_mine11.shtml
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| | United States Laws |
| | Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves - 1807 - In accordance with Constitution, no new slaves were permitted to be imported into US. | | | Newlands Reclamation Act - 1902 - Money from sales of semiarid public lands in 16 western states was to be used for consructing and maintaining irrigation projects. | | | Sherman Antitrust Act - 1890 - Made illegal Every contract, combination, in the form of trust, or otherwise, or conspirac, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states. |
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http://www.faqt.org/Qhoo/United_States_Laws.html
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| | Ulysses S. Grant |
| | After the fraud was exposed in 1872, the company tried to avert an investigation of their practices by bribing certain Congressmen with heavily discounted shares of stock. | | | amendment, and the Amnesty Act, however, he had little to do with their proceedings. | | | The party called for Civil Service reform, universal amnesty for former rebels, restoration of home-rule in southern states, a one-term presidency, and resumption of specie payments |
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http://valusha.tripod.com/Pres/UlyGra.htm
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| | The Past and Present Mining Frontier |
| | Thanks to the 1872 Mining Law, these companies do not contribute revenue to the United States Treasury in return for the minerals taken from the public lands. | | | "DENVER — Environmentalists used an 1872 mining law assailed by critics as a giveaway to industry to stake claims in six Western states Thursday, hoping to protect land from development and prompt an overhaul in rules for hard-rock mining. | | | The law, written during the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, was meant to entice settlers to the West, said Roger Flynn, director and managing attorney with the law firm Western Mining Action Project in Lyons. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/west/mining.htm
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| | FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code |
| | As part of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1995 ("Appropriations Act"), Congress imposed a moratorium on processing mining patent applications unless revisions were made to the General Mining Act of 1872 by the time Congress adjourned sine die.2 Pub. | | | Humboldt Placer Mining Co., 371 U.S. In fact, the Secretary has no authority to issue a patent until he is satisfied that the applicant has fully complied with the requirements. | | | Secretary's "administrative recording of an applicant's compliance with the initial paperwork requirement of the Mining Law." Id. The patent does not issue until the claim is determined to be valid; before the determination, a mineral examiner must complete a mineral report and the Secretary must review the entire application. |
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http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=9th&navby=case&no=9615732
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| | U.S. Department of the Inteior: The Department of Everything Else |
| | Responding to a call for legal mining rights on government lands, Congress passed the Mining Act of 1872. | | | The Taylor Act authorized the Secretary of the Interior to place 80 million acres of the public domain in grazing districts (the limit was later increased, then dropped) and set rules and fees for grazing permits. | | | Following passage of the 1920 Leasing Act it acquired the job of supervising mining operations on the public lands. |
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/utley-mackintosh/interior9.htm
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| | Reform 1872 Mining Law Act Corporate Welfare |
| | The 1872 Mining Law signed by President Ulysses S. Grant and still in effect today, allows patents for hardrock minerals on public lands to be mined for $2.50, or $5 per acre. | | | The 1872 Mining Law, signed by President Ulysses S. Grant and still in effect today, allows patents for hardrock minerals on public lands to be mined for $2.50, or $5 per acre. | | | In an effort to convince Congress of the necessity of revamping the 1872 Mining Law, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt signed a patent for three mining claims on Wednesday giving away public resources covering 62 acres, worth more than $80 million. |
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http://www.progress.org/cwmining.htm
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| | REP America's policy paper on Public Lands |
| | As a related consideration, REP America considers the Mining Act of 1872 as egregiously outdated and obsolete, and patently counterproductive to the best interests of twenty-first century America. | | | Mining permits must include lease fees comparable to those paid for leases on privately held lands. | | | We call for its repeal, and for the passage of a new law governing mining on our public lands that embodies competitive pricing, requires full compliance with all other federal laws, and mandates future restoration of leased land by the leasee. |
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http://www.repamerica.org/policy/publiclands.html
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| | History 222 Supplementary Materials |
| | Congress weakened in its resolve to enforce the acts of Reconstruction | | | The next piece of compromise legislation was the 1890 Sherman Silver Purchase Act which directed the Treasury to purchase a set weight of silver (4.5 million ounces) a month. | | | The 1878 Bland-Allison Act required the Treasury to buy between $2 and $4 million in silver each month. |
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http://www.middlesex.cc.nj.us/faculty/John_Kruszewski/222supplementary.html
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| | The West as "Dependent" of the Federal Government |
| | "The first lord of yesterday is the Hardrock Mining Law of 1872., which dedicates more than half of all public lands to mining as the preferred use. | | | Further, this extraordinary law allows successful mining operations to obtain title to the land overlying the deposit; miners can receive as many 20-acre parcels as they wish, providing only that they discover valuable minerals under each. | | | The idea has some basis and reason for support, but as we move toward devolution, let's be clearheaded about the intent of our founders as well as the inherent weakness of states acting alone. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/west/depend.htm
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| | Grant History Four |
| | He signed the Amnesty Act, May 22, 1872, which restored civil rights to all southerners except certain former Confederate leaders. | | | Signed Ku Klux Klan Act, which enabled the president to suspend habeas corpus to further enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment rights of southern blacks, April 20, 1871. | | | The Fifteenth Amendment states that no citizen can be denied the right to vote based upon race, color, or previous condition of servitude. |
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http://www.css.edu/usgrant/granthist4.html
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| | Iron Confederacies Timeline |
| | Johnson issues general amnesty (with exceptions) and appoints WW Holden as provisional governor of NC. | | | Stanton cites Tenure of Office act; Johnson nominates Grant (tho Grant moving to Rads); Stanton transfers stuff to Grant under protest, awaiting congress reconvening in Nov. Johnson dismisses mil. | | | ETD Myers, acting chief engineer of va tells Gov. Letcher that he is closing the state engineer's office (will become agent for slave labor for RandD's extension) |
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http://srnels.people.wm.edu/iron/timeline.html
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| | Judge Lecompte and the "Sack of Lawrence," May 21, 1856 [Part 2 of 2], by James C. Malin, August 1953 |
| | Although Lecompte's acts may have encouraged outrages, and prevented the punishment of those who committed them, yet we have never heard that he engaged in any of them himself -- indeed, we have always taken him for a man whose disposition was averse to ruffianism. | | | The Court held that the acts of injustice, oppression and tyrany alleged to have been committed by Judge Lecompte must be supported by specific proof of each allegation; and remarked that the public opinion formed at that time was most likely colored by the partnership [partisanship?] of the actors. | | | He had joined the Free-State party soon thereafter and was nominated attorney general, December 22, and elected January 15, 1856, under the Topeka constitution. |
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http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1953/53_8_malin.htm
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| | Living on Earth: Claiming Public Lands |
| | Many conservationists have long criticized what's known as the 1872 Mining Act as failing to value public lands rich in nature, but efforts to reform the law have, so far, failed. | | | Efforts to reform what's known as the Mining Act of 1872 stalled under President Clinton. | | | JIRON: The 1872 mining law really was meant to promote people with pickaxes on foot who are going to dig small tunnels, and not big, huge mines that are going to have big piles of toxic chemicals and things like that. |
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http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=05-P13-00043&segmentID=4
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| | A. C. Review, 1872 |
| | 22 May: U.S. Grant signed the Amnesty Act of 1872 restoring civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers. | | | Copyright 2004, Mark Luckstead, all rights reserved, for all contents of this Web site. |
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| | NPR : Mining |
| | All Things Considered, June 14, 1999 · In hearings tomorrow, the US Senate plans to re-examine the Mining Act of 1872, which regulates mining on public land. | | | The most recent controversy over the Act, stemmed from a debate over whether to allow a large open-pit gold mine in Washington State. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1051521
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| | ibscrewed.com AP US History |
| | Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction- full pardons once pledge allegiance and accept emancipation and state governments would be reestablished once 10% of the population take the oath | | | Administration of Justice Act: royal officials accused of crimes to be tried in England | | | Mann-Elins Act (1910): extends regulatory power of the ICC and gives ICC the power to form a court and suspend questionable rates |
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