State v. Des Chutes Land Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Henry E. McGinn, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. This is a suit by the State of Oregon against the Des Chutes Land Company, a corporation. On September 25, 1907, the defendant. entered into a contract with the then State Land Board for the reclamation of certain desert lands in this State under what is known as the Carey Act of Congress and legislation of this State in pursuance thereof.
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From Multnomah: Henry E. McGinn, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. This is a suit by the State of Oregon against the Des Chutes Land Company, a corporation. On September 25, 1907, the defendant. entered into a contract with the then State Land Board for the reclamation of certain desert lands in this State under what is known as the Carey Act of Congress and legislation of this State in pursuance thereof. That board having been supplanted by the desert land board by virtue of the act of February 24, 1909, passed by the legislative assembly of Oregon, the latter body, acting in the name…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burnett
1. By the Act of Congress of August 18, 1894, entitled “An act making, appropriations for sundry expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, and for other purposes,” the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the President, was authorized and empowered, upon proper applications of certain states, of which Oregon was one, “to contract and agree from time to time with a state in which there is situated desert lands * * to donate, grant and patent to the State free of cost of survey or price such desert lands not exceeding I,000,000 acres in each state as the…
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