INDEX. A. Acquisition, by purchase, conquest and treaty, of territory to national and pub- lic domain..... Acre of public domain, cost per purchases of public domain, cost per . public domain disposed of, amount received per.... Acres and location of entries under homestead act since 1862.. Page. ..89-145 21 21 21 350 363 361 164 358 22 411 223 229, 230 230 262 State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, convention to Alaska, purchase of, from Russia. (See Russia). Annapolis, meeting of commissioners from colonies at Annexation of Republic of Texas, and present location of territory embraced in.. 426 .138-145 3-9 21 325 27 457 409 58 124 Mexico purchase of 1853 (Gadsden), cost and present location... 138 Area of Mexico purchase of 1848 (Guadalupe Hidalgo), cost and present loca- Russia purchase of 1867 (Alaska), cost and present location.. Republic of Texas annexed to United States, and present location............... 66 public land strip" precious metal and mining lands on public domain.... Page 134 145 135 124 10, 11 462 325 lands granted for canals, wagon and military wagon roads....... 258, 260, 287 railroads...... confirmed private land claims in California... New Mexico..... all private land claims or grants, patented or unpatented... 269, 287 381 406 409 295 remaining public lands in Southern States June 30, 1880. agricultural lands remaining.... Arizona, Territory of, when organized, legislation as to .. population at periods.... private land claims in..... legislation as to...... 394 408 list of private land claims in, reported to Congress.......... 409 no statute of limitation as to private land claims in..... 406 Arkansas, State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, convention to Assistant Attorneys General for Interior Department, list of.. Attachment of railroad rights to lands granted.. 165 212 280 Page. Attorneys General, Assistant, for Interior Department, list of.... Authorities under chapter on English colonization and charters.. 165 477 55 504 Baton Rouge, West, grant to, for levee purposes.. Batture, the, private land claim Boundaries of national and public domain of United States... Republic of Texas, as annexed. cession from Mexico, treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo... 211 374 2-9 121 127, 128 Boundary and land clause in articles of confederation 62 179 exterior national land and water, of United States, length of... 464 Brazil, laws relating to disposition of Crown lands in and regulations as to colo- 8 9 120 104 209 223 235 232, 236 234 360 235, 237 Britton, A. T., Land Commissioner, compiler of permanent and temporary land iii-vi Buchanan's, President, veto of homestead act of March 6, 1860..... 342 C. California, State of, population at periods, sketch of history of, convention to Canada, Dominion of, Crown or public land system of; statute of 42 Victoria, 477 Page Canadian and French settlers at Saint Vincent and Kaskaskia, reservation for, 82 Cash sales and disposition of public lands for twenty years prior to 1880 23 216 303 205 Cession of Western lands to United States by States, act of legislature of Dela- 60 Cession of Western lands to United States by States, act of legislature of Mary- 61, 62 Cession of Western lands to United States by States, act of legislature of New 63 Cession of province of Louisiana by France to Spain...... by Spain back to France... 135 67-70 90 91 Cession and purchase from Mexico, Gadsden purchase, 1853. 124-126 136-138 21 138-145 21 267 55 30, 31 165 Clarke, General Geo. R., reservation of land by Virginia for troops of his com- Clarke, Lewis and, grant to, and the men of their expedition... Closing a surveying district, and transfer of books and titles to a State, man- 194 Page. Coal lands, what are, and how disposed of by existing methods... area of, sold.............. remaining.. Coast and frontier line of United States, land and water, length of.. 412 293 292 464 212 223 commissioners from the, meeting of, at Annapolis.. Colonization and charters, English authorities under....... of the Carolinas, North and South.. 56 58 464 55 31 51 Colorado, the State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, constitu- tion of, and sketch of history of legislation for and up to admission 451 private land grants in... 394 list of private land claims reported to Congress and awaiting action. Congress of the, acts upon Constitution.... Congress organizes the government under the Constitution |