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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... miles . Land offices have been reopened in Florida , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , and Arkan- sas . By the act approved June 21 , 1866 , public lands in these States are reserved exclusively for homestead entries ; and for the ...
... miles . Land offices have been reopened in Florida , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , and Arkan- sas . By the act approved June 21 , 1866 , public lands in these States are reserved exclusively for homestead entries ; and for the ...
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... miles . 7. The localities of public domain . 8. The origin of our surveying system , and the principles which control in extending the public lines on the earth's surface . 9. The political subdivisions over which surveys have already ...
... miles . 7. The localities of public domain . 8. The origin of our surveying system , and the principles which control in extending the public lines on the earth's surface . 9. The political subdivisions over which surveys have already ...
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... 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 the North American ...
... 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 the North American ...
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... miles , or 226,560,000 acres . The whole of this area , every acre of it , has been completely surveyed , and the field - notes recorded , while accurate plats have been protracted exhibiting in legal subdivisions the entire surface ...
... miles , or 226,560,000 acres . The whole of this area , every acre of it , has been completely surveyed , and the field - notes recorded , while accurate plats have been protracted exhibiting in legal subdivisions the entire surface ...
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... miles ; said cession of 1848 adding to the sea line we had on the Gulf of Mexico , under the Spanish cession of 1819 , four hundred miles of coast , ex- tending from the mouth of the Sabine to the Rio Grande , thus making our sea- coast ...
... miles ; said cession of 1848 adding to the sea line we had on the Gulf of Mexico , under the Spanish cession of 1819 , four hundred miles of coast , ex- tending from the mouth of the Sabine to the Rio Grande , thus making our sea- coast ...
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11 north 21 east 4th meridian A. D. seventeen hundred act of Congress act of July aggregate agricultural amount appropriation April 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 July 22 Kansas land district Land Office Livre Terrein Louis Louisiana March 21 Mexico Michigan 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 registers and receivers river salary scrip section lines September September 28 settlement settlers square miles standard lines 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 14 - 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 28 - 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 19 - 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 28 - ... 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 22 - The Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to enforce and carry into execution, by appropriate regulations, every part of the provisions of this title not otherwise specially provided for.
Էջ 18 - I have now disposed of the unprofitable landed estates of the crown, and thrown them into the mass of private property ; by which they will come, through the course of circulation, and through the political secretions of the state, into our better understood and better ordered revenues.
Էջ 19 - 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 30 - 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...