Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1856 - Public lands |
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12 west 13 east 19 north 1st quarter 21 north 3d quarter 4th quarter 9 east 9 south 9 west Acres amount received appropriations approved April balance due cash Commissioner deputy surveyor Diagram of township Donaldsonville due the United ending June 30 estimated examined exterior field notes fiscal year ending fractional townships guide meridian instructions Iowa July July 20 June 12 June 30 Kansas Land Office last annual report Louisiana Map of township Missouri Nebraska North of Red number of townships October Oregon Territory Plat of township plats public lands Quantity sold quarter of 1855 range 12 range 3 west range 7 east range 9 recorded Resurvey of township salary Sept September 30 ship standard parallel subdivision SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE surveys swamp lands Total town township 10 north township 15 south township lines townships and fractional treasury draft Washington Territory west 5th
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Page 16 - Sound Agricultural Company on the north side of the Columbia River, shall be confirmed to the said Company. In case however the situation of those farms and lands should be considered by the United States to be of public and political importance, and the United States...
Page 24 - Congress approved September 26, 1850, c. 71, providing for the examination and settlement of claims for land at the Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan...
Page 141 - An act to provide for the survey of the public lands in California, the granting of pre-emption rights, and for other purposes, " as provides that none other than township lines shall be surveyed where the lands are mineral, is hereby repealed.
Page 169 - He shall make a full report on all such claims as originated before the cession of the territory to the United States by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, denoting the various grades of title, with his decision as to the validity or invalidity of each of the same under the laws, usages, and customs of the country before its cession to the United States...
Page 169 - Interior ; which report shall be laid before Congress for such action thereon as may be deemed just and proper, with a view to confirm bond fide grants, and give full effect to the treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-eight between the United States and Mexico...
Page 16 - ... the possessory rights of the Hudson's Bay Company, and of all British subjects who may be already in the occupation of land or other property lawfully acquired within the said territory...
Page 140 - In this connexion it may not be out of place to call the attention of the...
Page 10 - An act to grant the right of way to all rail and plank roads, and macadamized turnpikes, passing through the public lands belonging to the United States."— (10 Stat., p.
Page 22 - under such instructions as may be given by the Secretary of the Interior, to ascertain the origin, nature, character and extent of all claims to lands, under the laws, usages and customs of Spain and Mexico.
Page 16 - Company on the north side of the Columbia River, shall be confirmed to the said Company. In case however the situation of those farms and lands should be considered by the United States to be of public and political importance, and the United States' Government should signify a desire to obtain possession of the whole, or of any part thereof, the property so required shall be transferred to the said Government, at a proper valuation, to be agreed upon between the Parties.