Report of the Commissioner of General Land OfficeThe Office, 1862 - Public lands |
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$12 per mile 17 east 18 south A. P. WILBAR acres act of Congress act of March amount Big Sioux river boundary bounty land California Cañada clerks Colorado Commissioner compensation contract Dakota district court draughtsman east 17 El Pescadero embracing ending June 30 ending September 30 extending field-notes filed fiscal year ending grants incidental expenses Indian Iowa July Land Office last annual report located Mexico mineral Minnesota Missouri Mount Diablo Oregon patent portion pre-emption principal meridian private land claims public lands public surveys pueblos Quantity sold rancho river San Juan Santa scrip Sept September 30 settlements settlers south 3 west standard parallel Statement showing subdivisional subdivisions of township SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE surveys of private Territory of Colorado Territory of Dakota Territory of Nevada Total township lines transmitted United Utah valley Washington Territory Willamette meridian Wisconsin
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Page 34 - ... no lands on which are situated any known salines or mines, shall be liable to entry under and by virtue of the provisions of this act.
Page 30 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 30 - That the provisions of this act be extended to, and their benefits be conferred upon, each of the other States of the Union in which such swamp and overflowed lands, known and designated as aforesaid, may be situated.
Page 6 - AN ACT to authorize the President of the United States, in conjunction with the State of Texas, to run and mark the boundary lines between the Territories of the United States and the State of Texas.
Page 19 - That none other than township lines shall be run where the land is deemed unfit for cultivation.
Page 27 - That in any case where a party entitled to claim the benefits of any of the pre-emption laws shall have died before consummating his claim by filing, in due time, all the papers essential to the establishment of the same, it shall be competent for the executor or administrator of the estate of such party, or one of the heirs, to file the necessary papers to complete the same...
Page 29 - States, fit for cultivation, not otherwise appropriated, and to which the Indian title is extinguished, not exceeding in the whole six millions of acres, two millions to be surveyed in the territory of Michigan, two millions in the Illinois territory, north of the Illinois river, and two millions in the territory of Louisiana, between the river St. Francis and the river Arkansas ; the said lands to be divided into townships, and subdivided into sections and quarter sections, (each quarter section...
Page 30 - An act to vest in the several States and Territories the title in fee of the lands which have been or may be certified to them...
Page 27 - ... claim, by filing in due time all the papers essential to the establishment of the same, it shall be competent for the executor or administrator of the estate of such party, or one of the heirs, to file the necessary papers to complete the same; but the entry in such cases shall be made in favor of the heirs of the deceased pre-emptor, and a patent thereon shall cause the title to inure to such heirs, as if their names had been specially mentioned.
Page 32 - There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township; also, one-third part of all gold, silver, lead and copper mines, to be sold or otherwise disposed of as Congress shall hereafter direct.