Compilation of Letters, Telegrams, Reports and Other Documents Offered in Evidence Before the Joint Committee of Congress Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...could do so under the act of 1908, the question being whether snch previous agreements barred them from the benefits of said inter act. It was in this respect that the instructions stated: It Is assumed that the difficulty with which your office is confronted In passing upon thcs% applications is merely that technical objection might be raised as to the good faith of the claimant or entrymau because of the understanding, arrangement, or agreement contemplated or entered Into with respect to the completion of such entries prior to the passage of the act of May 28, 1908. With reference thereto I am of opinion thut to so limit the scope and purpose of the act of 1908 as to refuse the privilege of perfecting such claims under its liberal provisions solely because of such previous arrangement or agreemeut is unwarranted, and that In passing upon entries sought to lie perfected under the act of 1908. where the only objection thereto is an arrangement or agreement of the character specifically described in your letter, the same might and should be accepted and passed to patent. Respectfully submitted. F. W. Clements. 2115 712-14 B. & C. Building, Denver, Colo., August 31, 1909. Mr. H. H. Schwartz, Washington, D. C. My Dear Harry: Sheridan telegraphed me yesterday for a little money, advising that he had to proceed to Washington immediately, and of course I helped him out by telegraphing it to him at once, as he requested. When he gets there he will probably put up to you pretty strongly that he will want some assistants up there that he can trust, and will unquestionably ask you to detail Special Agent Smith and perhaps Mineral Inspector Hibbard as these assistants. I want to help out in this matter all I can. but I hope It will not be necessary for you to det...