Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1867 |
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... township of six miles square ; in giving means for the endowment of seminaries of learning and universities ; but it has made concessions , on a stupendous scale , for internal improvements , for opening ordinary roads , for spanning ...
... township of six miles square ; in giving means for the endowment of seminaries of learning and universities ; but it has made concessions , on a stupendous scale , for internal improvements , for opening ordinary roads , for spanning ...
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... township and section corners of the legal width , of six miles for each township , and one mile to each section , are marked and established thereon , without reference to the closing lines and corners of the townships and section lines ...
... township and section corners of the legal width , of six miles for each township , and one mile to each section , are marked and established thereon , without reference to the closing lines and corners of the townships and section lines ...
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... townships , being two - fifths of the whole area of the State . DAKOTA . In Dakota the standard parallels , townships , and subdivisions have been ex- tended within the Sioux Indian reservation , west of Big Stone lake , and so as to ...
... townships , being two - fifths of the whole area of the State . DAKOTA . In Dakota the standard parallels , townships , and subdivisions have been ex- tended within the Sioux Indian reservation , west of Big Stone lake , and so as to ...
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... township and section lines equal to 2,000 lineal miles , at an estimated cost of $ 15,000 , appropriated by act of April 7 , 1866 . The south park of the Rocky mountains contains about 35,000 acres of ara- ble land , and the richest ...
... township and section lines equal to 2,000 lineal miles , at an estimated cost of $ 15,000 , appropriated by act of April 7 , 1866 . The south park of the Rocky mountains contains about 35,000 acres of ara- ble land , and the richest ...
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... townships on the upper waters of the Umatilla river ; the extension of the base line east to the Snake river ; for subdivisional surveys east of Klamath lake , along the Oregon Central Military road , adjoining the north boundary of the ...
... townships on the upper waters of the Umatilla river ; the extension of the base line east to the Snake river ; for subdivisional surveys east of Klamath lake , along the Oregon Central Military road , adjoining the north boundary of the ...
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11 north 4th meridian A. D. seventeen hundred act of Congress act of July aggregate agricultural amount appropriation April Arkansas August August 21 California Cañon City cash City claims clerks coal Colorado contract Dakota Dakota Territory ending June 30 estimated extended exterior field-notes fiscal year ending grants guide meridian homestead act incidental expenses Indian Iowa Kansas land district Land Office Livre Terrein Louis Louisiana March 21 Mexico Michigan Middle Park mineral mines Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Mount Diablo Mount Diablo meridian mountains Nebraska Nebraska Territory Nevada number of acres Oregon Pacific plats pre-emption public lands public surveys Quarter ending railroad range 18 range 20 range 21 east registers and receivers river salary scrip section lines September September 28 settlement settlers square miles standard parallel Statutes subdivisions SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE thousand timber Total town Township 13 tract United Utah valley Washington Territory Wisconsin
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Էջ 16 - Settlement ; but that, if at any Time any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said Lands, the same shall be Purchased only for Us, in our Name, at some public Meeting or Assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that Purpose by the Governor or Commander in Chief of our Colony respectively within which they shall lie...
Էջ 13 - States to reserve from the public lands, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, town sites on the shores of harbors at the junction of rivers, important portages, or any natural or prospective centres of population...
Էջ 6 - States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Էջ 15 - Each head of a family or single person over twenty-one years of age at the present time of the mixed bloods, belonging to the Chipi>ewas of Lake Superior, shall be entitled to eighty acres of land, to be selected by them under the direction of the President, and which shall be secured to them by patent in the usual form.
Էջ 6 - ... enter such tract and receive a patent therefor, granting such mine, together with the right to follow such vein or lode, with its dips, angles, and variations, to any depth, although it may enter the land adjoining, which land adjoining shall be sold subject to this condition.
Էջ 15 - An act to create the office of surveyor general of the public lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey, and to make donations to settlers of the said public lands...
Էջ 8 - The difference thus established by congressional legislation between the beginning of the calendar year and the fiscal, with the legislative recognition of the former, now places the matter, in the judgment of this office, beyond question. To adopt a...
Էջ 3 - This system, so complete in itself, so simple and certain in fixing the lines upon tbe earth's surface, not only of town lots, but of agricultural lands, from 640, 320, 160, 80, and 40 acre tracts, has accomplished its work in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and nearly so in Louisiana and Florida. In those States are to be found climate, soil, and products equal to the wants and comforts of civilized man — cereals, esculents, and fruits...