In 1838, a devastating fire gutted their small shop and soon thereafter David Brown moved west to Illinois, settling on a land grant in his declining years.

Cattle stealing and killing, again serious during the spring of 1891, placed the land grant company officers in a perplexing position.

* 1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.

The Governor's main problem was with his own military officers, who wanted large grants of land, which Phillip had not been authorised to grant.

Phillip assigned a convict, James Ruse, land at Rose Hill ( now Parramatta ) to establish proper farming, and when Ruse succeeded he received the first land grant in the colony.

A king who used charters to grant land in another kingdom, indicated such a relationship.

" This section is a " covenantal land grant ": Yahweh, as king, is issuing each tribe its territory.

But it could also be popular with the barbarian prisoners, who were often delighted by the prospect of a land grant within the empire.

However, legal title to all land in the City of Berkeley remains based on the original Peralta land grant.

All four were original colonies ( Kentucky was originally a part of the land grant of the Colony of Virginia ) and share a strong influence of colonial common law in some of their laws and institutions.

The usual grant was in precaria, the granting of a life tenure, whereby the tenant stayed on the land only at the pleasure of the lord.

An unusual clause in the colonial land grant outlined the territory that the proprietors of New Jersey would receive as being " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river ", rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.

In 1238 the Dominican Order was invited to build a monastery on a grant of land.

Her policy there was to grant land to her courtiers and prevent the rebels from giving Spain a base from which to attack England.

In order to protect the land from his creditors, the grant was made in the name of two trustees.

Before a lord could grant land ( a fief ) to someone, he had to make that person a vassal.

Initially in medieval Latin European documents, a land grant in exchange for service was called a beneficium ( Latin ).

In January 1806 Rapp traveled to Washington, D. C. to hear discussions in Congress regarding the Harmonists ’ petition for a grant that would allow them to purchase approximately acre of land in the Indiana Territory.

Iowa Agricultural College ( Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts as of 1898 ), as a land grant institution, focused on the ideals that higher education should be accessible to all and that the university should teach liberal and practical subjects.

* 1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.

With about $ 100, 000 in Federal grant money, the organization also bought land for the freedmen in what is today Liberia.

Written mostly in Latin but using an Old English boundary clause, the charter records a grant of land near the city of Rochester to Justus ' church.

At the time of the land grant the Government stipulated that the ground was to be used for cricket and cricket only.

The government and the railroads both shared in the increased value of the land grants, which the railroads developed.

3 of the 1862 Act granted the railroads of public land for every mile laid, except where railroads ran through cities and crossed rivers.

Lamar charged that the rights of way for this land must be returned to the public because the railroads failed to extend their lines according to agreements.

Through land subsidies granted to the railroads, they soon came to control vast tracts of the best land along the Caribbean coast.

As their membership declined, they stopped manufacturing operations, other than what they needed for themselves, and began to invest in other ventures such as the oil business, coal mining, timber, railroads, land development, and banking.

The government built railroads, improved roads, and inaugurated a land reform program to prepare the country for further development.

The government also built railroads, improved road, and inaugurated a land reform program to prepare the country for further development.

" The railroads, public utilities, canals, and forests should be nationalized, and all income from the land and mines should be in the hands of the State.

Past speculative excesses included canals, railroads, farm land, real estate and the broader stock market.

The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders ; the purpose of the physical is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil type or land use including infrastructure such as roads, railroads and buildings.

Rice made his fortune by investing in land, real estate, lumber, railroads, cotton, and other prospects in Texas and Louisiana.

To allow the railroads to raise additional money Congress provided additional assistance to the railroad companies in the form of land grants of federal lands.

Because of the nature of the way money was given to the companies building the railroad, they were sometimes known to sabotage each others railroads to claim that land as their own.

Garfield thought the land grants given to expanding railroads to be an unjust practice ; as well, he opposed some monopolistic practices by corporations, as well as the power sought by the workers ' unions.

The Great Northern was the first transcontinental built without public money and just a few land grants and was one of the few transcontinental railroads not to go bankrupt.

In the 1880s, the railroads purchased land in the west from the federal government, which was then sold to individuals to help finance the railroad projects.

The Communist Party subsequently loosened governmental control over citizens ' personal lives and the communes were disbanded with many peasants receiving multiple land leases, which greatly increased incentives and agricultural production.

They were followed by landless Irish indentured labourers, who were recruited to serve a landowner for a specified time before receiving freedom and land.

With this formal blessing, the Templars became a favored charity throughout Christendom, receiving money, land, businesses, and noble-born sons from families who were eager to help with the fight in the Holy Land.

The length of those sending and receiving wires needed to be about the same length as the width of the water ( or land ) that needed to be spanned.

* January 3 – In the court of James I of England, the king's favorite George Villiers becomes Master of the Horse ; on April 24 he receives the Order of the Garter ; and on August 27 is created Viscount Villiers and Baron Waddon, receiving a grant of land valued at £ 80, 000.

Each stockholder can set up a " particular " plantation and pay associated expenses, receiving of land for each share and for each person transported ( the " headrights " system ).

Category: Rail lines receiving land grants

Narragansett Indians receiving Roger WilliamsIn the spring of 1636 Williams and a number of his followers from Salem began a settlement on land that Williams had bought from Massasoit, only to be told by Plymouth that he was still within their land grant.

Wilson was a self-made man who was orphaned in Nashville, Tennessee, came to Alta California as a fur trapper and adventurer during the American Indian Wars before marrying Ramona Yorba, the daughter of a California land baron, Bernardo Yorba, and made his fortune through the wedding dowry, receiving Rancho Jurupa, settling what would become California's San Gabriel Valley, after the Mexican American War.

In terms of receiving grants of land, the order would accept only undeveloped land ( or in some cases, they accepted developed land and relocated the serfs elsewhere ).

Every member of the bands or tribes receiving a land allotment is subject to laws of the state or territory in which they reside.

97-293 ) eliminated the residency requirement provisions of reclamation law, raised the acreage limitation on lands irrigated with water supplied by the Bureau of Reclamation, and established and required full-cost rates for land receiving water above the acreage limit.

As tribes were relocated, some received land grants in exchange for their former lands, and others ( such as Osage, Seminole, and Chickasaw ) ultimately purchased their land, usually receiving Fee simple title to the land.

* The Chickasaw, rather than receiving land grants in exchange for ceding Aboriginal land rights, received financial compensation.

Other tribes received their land either by treaty via Land grant from the Federal government of the United States or they purchased the land receiving Fee simple title.