B.-Statement showing the condition of contracts for the survey of the pubdate of the last annual Contractor. Time allowed. Lands embraced in contract. 1 Nov. 7, 1853. Paul B. Starbuck.. Dec. 1....... East boundaries of townships and 5 south, range 6 west; and examinations in township 5 south. range 5 west. 2 Dec. 21...... Paul B. Starbuck.. Dec. 1, 1854 Township 1 north, range 3 west, west of White river; townships 1, 2, and 3 north, range 8 west; township 3 south, range 3 west: townships 4, 5, and 6 south, range 4 west. 3 Feb. 25...... Granville McPher- Jan. 1, 1855 Townships 4, 5, and 6 south, range Bon. 4 April 21...... David W. Lowe... May 1....... 3 west townships 3, 4, and 5 north, range 1 east; unsurveyed fragments in townships 4 and 5 north, range 4 east; and township 2 south, range 1 west. Township 16 north, range 1 west : township 18 north, ranges 1 and 3 west; township 11 north, range 3 west, east of White river: township 10 north, range 3 west, west of White rivar; examinations and corrections in township 20 north, range 6 west; and township 10 north, range 3 west, east of White river. 5 April 22...... Allen and James Jan. 1....... Townships 9, 10, 11, and 12 north. range 6 west; townships 10, 11, and 12 north, range 7 west; and township 10 north, range 8 west. Corrections in township 4 south, range 17 west. Erroneous and unsurveyed fragments in township 12 north, range 3 west; township 6 north, ranges 16 and 17 west; township 5 north, range 16 west; townships 5 and 7 north, range 14 west; township 1 north, range 12 west; township 1 south, range 9 west; townships 9, 10, and 11. south, range 5 west; townships 1 and 2 south, range 8 west : townships 2 and 3 south, range 9 west; townships 1 and 2 north range 9 west; townships 1 and 2 north, range 10 west; township 2 north, ranges 11 and 12 west. 8 Sept. 18, 1854 James S. Garret- July 1, 1855... Townships 1 and 2 south, range son. west; township 1 north, range 10 west; townships 2 and 3 south, range 9 west. lic lands in the State of Arkansas, entered into since October 12, 1853, the report from this office. Work executed, examined, and approved, but account not transmitted for payment. Townships 1, 2, and 3 north, range 8 west, executed, field-notes examined and approved, and plats prepared for transmission. 343 30 46 $920 26 Field-notes of townships 3, 4, and 5 north, range 1 east, have been returned, examined, and approved, plats made and sent to the proper offices, and account for the work, amounting to $920 26, adjusted at the General Land Office. Field-notes of townships 4 and 5 north, range 4 east, have been returned, but not examined. Field-notes of township 18 north, range 1 west, returned, but not examined. Mr. Lowe asks to be relieved from the remainder of the surveying embraced in his contract, on account of ill-health. Surveys completed; not examined. Field-notes of township 12 north, range 3 west; townships 9, 10, and 11 north, range 5 west, returned, but not examined; townships 1 and 2 south, range 8 west; township 1 north, range 10 west; and townships 2 and 3 south, range 9 west, relinquished to James S. Garretson. (See No. 8.) C. List of plats reconstructed and recalculated from the original field-notes to supply the place of mutilated or defaced plats now on file in this and the registers' offices. List of plats constructed from the field-notes of resurveys returned, examined, and approved, since the date of the last annual report from this office. Township 10 south, range 28 west.. Township 9 south, range 29 west. Township 3 north, range 1 east...... Township 4 north, range 1 east...... Township 5 north, range 1 east.... Fractional sections 1 and 12, township 8 south, range 19 west. Township 13 north, range 6 west. Town hip 1 south, range 6 west....... D-Continued. Townships. Township 13 north, range 4 west. Township 14 north, range 5 west. Township 15 north, range 4 west.. Township 11 south, range 19 west, north of Little Missouri river.. Township 14 north, range 4 west... Township 13 north, range 4 west.. Township 20 north, range 1 west. Township 19 north, range 6 west. Transcripts of field-notes. E is a list of townships and boundaries, the field-notes of which have been transcribed for transmission to the General Land Office; total subdivisions 5-boundaries 13. Record of field-notes to be transferred to the State of Arkansas under act of 12th June, 1840. This important work has been prosecuted with energy and industry; and it will be seen by diagram A 1, that during the past year the field-notes of 383 townships and 412 boundaries have been recorded, and all compared except the last quarter's work. The greatest care and attention is given to this branch of office-labor, not only in order to insure accuracy in all minutiæ, but to obtain the highest mechanical perfection in the record. Descriptive lists. With the exception of those heretofore reported as requiring to be copied on account of the illegible manner in which they were made, and those of townships retraced or resurveyed, this branch of the office work has been closed. F is a list showing that of the former thirty, and latter ten, have been made during the year. It is deemed unnecessary to encumber this report with a more detailed statement of the duties performed by the clerical force employed, but I will remark, in addition to the foregoing, that the preparation of contracts and instructions for deputy surveyors, diagrams of field-notes for deputy surveyors, the examination and protraction of the late resurveys, calculation of areas, maintaining the necessary correspondence, keeping up the records and files of the office, preparation of subdivisional diagrams for the registers' offices, and attention to calls for information on subjects connected with the office, more particularly that of the swamp lands, the construction of swamp land diagrams, and lists of the same for State authorities, registers, and Commissioner, comprise no small share of the labor performed by the force employed in this office. SWAMP LANDS. The whole amount of lands designated by the plats and field-notes 3n file in this office, as inuring to the State of Arkansas under the act of Congress of the 28th September, 1850, were certified for confirmation to the Commissioner of the General Land Office previous to the date of the last annual report from this office. The State authorities having produced satisfactory evidence as to the swampy and overflowed character of a portion of the lands selected by their agents, and rejected by my predecessor because not sustained by the field-notes on file in this office, I have, under the Commissioner's instructions of 14th May and 21st December, 1853, and 8th April, 1854, certified to the Commissioner for confirmation lists of lands |