Homestead exemptions

Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock writes President Roosevelt with his advice on the complicated matter of withdrawing coal lands. On Roosevelt’s direction, the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office began surveying and drafting a list of townships that contained rich coal lands with the intention of withdrawing them from homestead exemptions, and the Department is working quickly to wire all of Roosevelt’s orders to appropriate land offices around the country. However, it is apparent that oil industry men can use many loopholes to obtain the land.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-17

Creator(s)

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1835-1909

Baylor University will be debating the University of Texas over the Homestead and Exemptions Laws which are often abused in Texas. The unknown author asks Vice President Roosevelt for his opinion on these laws and to compare them to homestead laws in his own state.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901

Creator(s)

Unknown

President Roosevelt asserts that all the conditions set in place by the treaty between the United States government and the Native Americans of the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Cut-Head bands of Sioux have been fulfilled, and opens the remaining land for settlement. Some parcels of land are excepted for particular purposes. The proclamation also sets out the method through which homesteads will be issued.

Collection

White Horse Hill

Creation Date

1904-06-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919