American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and PoliticalAmerican News Company, 1886 - Almanacs, American |
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Page 56 - Columbia, a printed copy of the title of the book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, photograph, or chromo, or a description of the painting, drawing, statue, statuary, or a model or design, for a work of the fine arts...
Page 54 - This estimate is of a very general nature, and affords no index to the disposable volume of land remaining nor the amount available for agricultural purposes. It includes Indian and other public reservations, unsurveyed private land claims, as well as surveyed private land claims, in the districts of Arizona, California, Colorado, and New Mexico; the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections reserved for common schools...
Page 53 - ... (or 160 acres)) and have the right of prior claim to purchase on complying with certain regulations. The homestead laws give the right to one hundred and sixty acres of a dollar and a quarter lands, or to eighty acres of...
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Page 173 - ... academic course, and are performing two years' service at sea before final graduation), and 201 naval cadets on probation at the Naval Academy, all of whom are officers of the line. Of the staff there are 1 surgeon-general, 15 medical directors, 15 medical inspectors, 50 surgeons...