Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-12-23
Land Office Renort.

Generai Lanu OHlce SHOWS tnat, curing the
past fiscal year, not less that 4,S70,067
acres of the public domainn were sold, of
which 3,20l ,3l4 acres were located with
bounty land warrants. In addition $685.
1873 acres were reported under the swamp
land grant, and 1926, 800 acres for internal
improvements; making an aggregate Of 49,
1l5175 acres. The excess over the sales
and locations of the previous year, amounts
TO 3,342,372 acres; and the Commissioner
remarks that the sales would probably have
been yet larger, but for the extensive re-
servations for railroads in Mississippi, Ala
bama and Missouri. The sales and loca-
tons in the succeeding quarter, ending 30th
September. were in the aggregate 4,l31 1858
acres, of which $751; JIG acres were loca-
ted with bounty land warrants. The sur
veys Of the year cover 9,522,953 acres,
more than 100000 of which have been
advertised for sale.
Under the act of March last, the district
land officers receive the same per centage
for the location of warrants as for cash
sales; and, as the act was in part RETROSPECT
Understanding back TO February, lS47-
| $1l0,Sl6 have been paid out of the Treasu-
ny. To some extent the Government has
been reimbursed by an excess over the
maximum compensation allowed to the dis
trict officers.
The Commissioner pays high compli-
ment to the promptness, energy, and eff
cheney with which the Surveyor General of
Iowa and Wisconsin, and the astronomers
associated with him, conducted the survey
Of the northern boundary Of Iowa. A re-
port of the work is TO be communicated TO
Congress on an early day.
The report of DR.. D. D. Owen on the
geology of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota;
is ng-printed, and with seperate vol
ume of maps, will shortly be ready for de-
livery. DIR. Owen proposes geological
survey in Oregon and in the region of the
Mauvaises Terres in Nebraska. This is
regarded as the tertiary formation abound
ing with the fossil remains oPextinct species
of animals, each combining the distinctive
characteristics of several existing races.
Messrs. Foster and Whatney's final re-
port on the geology of the Lake Superior
land district is also promised.
The number Of bounty warrants issued
under the act of l847,is 93,l3S, of which
"a 500 have been located under the act of
1850 the number issued is 1873 ,698, of which
46,506 have been located; and under the
act of 1852 LII have been issued. The
aggregate quantity of land covered by the
various issues is 22,428,4 400 acres. Not
withstanding every precaution, frauds are
sometimes perpetrated and patents issued
under fraudulent assignments. The Com
missioner recommends that an act be past
authorizing in all cases the issue of the
patents to the persons who rendered the
services for which the patents were granted,
with the proviso that the title shall enure to
the benefit of the parties contemplated by
the acts of lS47 and 1850, their heirs, as
signees, or devisees. He further recon-
mends that all the warrants issued to SOL
diers who served in the war of 1912 should
be for l60 acres, without reference to the
length of service.
In addition to those already mentioned,
warrants and scrip have been issued by the
dlvisioa having charge of the Virginia mill
tary and bounty lands under the war of
1912, amounting to 27,656 acres,
In regard to the preemptions of settlers on
the Menomonee purchase, north of Fox riv-
er, Wisconsin, the Commissioner points out
cases of hardship arising from the prov-
sions of the act of May, 1852, restricting
the preemption privilege to those settled upon
lands surveyed prior TO such settlement
The removal of the restriction is recon-
mended.
Another restriction, arising under the act
of August last, providing that preemption
rights shall not be attached to any section of
land reserved to the United States, alter
nate to other sections granted 10 any of the
States for the construction of any canal,
railroad, or other public improvement, is al
so adverted to, coupled with recommends
ton that preemptiOns shall be granted to all
such lands at an increased minimum.
OF the 6,7lS,5S6 acres ceded by the
Chickasaws in Mississippi and Alabama,
but 100000 acres remain undisposed Of
To avoid the expense entailed upon the
Government by the holding of these lands
for sale, as at present, their attachment to a
contiguous district is recommended.
The MaisOn Rouge case is noticed, and
generalla law is suggestedto relieve settlers
who NAV be in like situations on other claims