The subsequent additions of territory were made directly to the United States, and not to the States, and all land thus gained was held as public land to be disposed of by Congress.
Under this head there are two classes of public land--first, that which may be bought for the minimum rate of $1.
There have been granted by different acts bounties of public land, in the nature of pensions, to the soldiers and sailors of the United States Army, on their honorable discharge, for their service to the Government.
In the great movement of people westward with its profligate disposal of public land, settlement became migratory and speculative.
The more recent land laws limit the amount of public land that an individual may acquire to an area sufficient to enable him to make a comfortable living for a family (see above, p.
Congress has made liberal grants of public landto corporations in aid of the construction of railroads and other internal improvements.
Sooner will the tariff be revived, or the price of public land be raised.
In the past great tracts of the public domain have been fenced in by persons having no title thereto, in direct defiance of the law forbidding the maintenance or construction of any such unlawful inclosure of public land.
Land warrant, a certificate from the Land Office, authorizing a person to assume ownership of a public land.
Lex Icilia de Aventino publicando) which regulated in some way the tenure of public land on the Aventine.
And when Cicero speaks of public land as let on lease (locatus) by the censor, he no doubt refers to the farming of the taxes to a publicanus for a fixed period, and not to the letting of the land.
The existence of public land, first in Italy, and then in the Mediterranean world, was the outcome of two ideas which are very familiar to students of antiquity.
There were triumviri agro dando or dividendo, triumviri for the division of public land; duumviri juri dicundo, for administering justice, and so forth.
Its leaders are ably utilizing their knowledge of the experiences in public land colonization in foreign countries such as Australia, New Zealand, the Scandinavian states, and Great Britain.
The seizure and purchase of public land, sometimes contrary to the letter of the law, more often contrary to its spirit, was looked upon as an intolerable evil.
Every acre of public land, believed to contain petroleum or natural gas, should be withdrawn from public sale and leased under conditions that regulate production.
In the West and Southwest there are large tracts of public land untilled.
In all these states where stock is fed on public land, there are many questions as to ownership of animals, rights of rival rangers, and other points to settle.
A tax paid to the State on cattle grazing on public land.
Caius Gracchus, seven years after he had been made one of the commissioners for the allotment of public land, was elected quaestor.
More than a century later the Licinian law forbade anyone to hold above 500 'jugera' of public land, for which, moreover, a tenth of the arable and a fifth of the grazing produce was to be paid to the State.
Even the majority, that had received Roman citizenship, still continued to bear the name, and they may have continued to enjoy municipal rights in public land.
But on the other hand, the fact that the kernel of these estates was composed of public land in excess of the prescribed limit seemed to make resumption by the State and redistribution to the poor legally possible.
Of the long-prevailing frauds on the part of the capitalists in acquiring large tracts of public land, some significant facts have been brought out in preceding chapters.
This law was a repeal of all the restrictions which the Gracchi had placed upon assignments of public land.
Land given in compensation out of public land, to be privatus utei quoi optuma lege.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public land" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
