Washington telegraph., 1852-12-22
NO. 81.

suggestions contained in the report of the
Secretary of the interior, that provisions be
made by law for the publication and distri-
button, periodically. of an Analytical Digest
Of all the patents which have been or may
hereafter be granted for useful inven-
tions and discoveries with such descriptions
and Illustrations as may be deemed necessa-
ry, to present an inteAigible,;view of their
nature and operations. The cost of such
publication could easily be betrayed out of
the patent fund, and am persuaded that it
could be applied to no object more accept
able to inventors, and beneficial to the public
at large.
The report from the General Land Office
shows increased activity in its operations.-
The survey Of the Northern boundary of
Iowa has been completed with unexampled
dispatch. Within the last year 9, 9,522,953
acres of public land have heen surveyed and
8,O32, 463 acres brought INTO market. In
the last fiscal year there weie sold 1,5S6,O71
acres, and entered with Bounty Land War
rants 1920, l34, and located with other Ger.
tlficates 1858. making a .otal of 4,S7O,-
O67. In addition there were reported under
swamp land grants 9,219, ,1Se; for internal
improvements, railroads &c, 3,O25,92O;
making an aggregate of 13,1l5,175, being
an increase of the amount of lands sold ana
located under land warrants of 569. .22O acres
over the previous year The whole amount
thus sold, located under land warrants re.
ported under swamp lands, grants, and Sc
leoted for internal improvements exceeds
that OF the previous year by 8 3,342, ,372 acres,
and the sales would without doubt have been
much larger but for the extensive reserva.
ton for railroads in Missouri, Mississippi
and Alabama. For the quarter ending 30th
September, 1852, there were sold 242,255
acres; located with bounty land warrants, l..
3oI ,ll6; located with other certificates. Is
Gay; reported under swamp land grants, l..
4S5, making an aggregate for the quar-.
ter of 4, 4,l31,253.
Much the larger portion of the labor of
arranging and classifying the last census has
been finished, and it will now devolve unon
Congress to make the necessary provision
for publication of the results in such form as
shall be deemed best
The apportionment of representation, on
the basis of the new census, has been made
by the Secretary of the Interior, in conform
ity with the provisions of the law relating to
that subject; and the recent elections have
been made in accordance with it.
An appropriation of 100000 having
been made at the last session for the pur-
chase of a suitable site and for the erection.
furnishing and fitting up of an Asylum for
the Insane of the District of Columbia and
of the Army and Navy of the United States
the proper measures have been adopted TO
carry this beni6cent purpose into effect.
BY the latest advices from the Mexican
Boundary Commission, it appears that the
survey OF the river ella, from its confluence
with the Colorado to its supposed intersec-
ton with the western line of New Mexico
has been completed. The survey of the Rio
Grande has also been finished, from the
point agreed on by the Commissioners at the
point where it strikes the southern boundary
of New Mexico to a point 135 miles below
Eagle Pass, which is about two-thirds of the
distance along the course of the river to its
mouth.
The appropriation which was made at the
last session of Congress for the continuance
of the survey. is subject to the following pro.
viso: Provided that no part of this appro.
priatlon shall be used or expended until it
shall be made satisfactorily to appear to the
President of the United States that the
southern boundary of New Mexico is not
established by the Commissioner and Sur.
veyor of the United States further north
than the town called Passo, than the same is
laid down in Disturnal's map, which is ad.
ded to the treaty.
My attention was drawn to the subject by
a report from the Department of Interior
which reviewed all the facts of the case. and
submitted for my decision, the question
whether under existing circumstances any
part of the appropriation couldsb sbe lawfully
used or expended for the further prosecution
of the work. After careful consideration
of the subject. came to the conclusion that
it could not, and SO informed the head of
the department Orders were immediately
issued by him to the Commissioner and Sur.
veyor to make no further requisition on the
department, as they could not be paid and
to discontinue all operations on the southern
line Of New Mexico. But as the department
had no exact information as to the amount
of provisions and money which remained un-
expended in the hands of the Commissioner
and Surveyor, it was left discretionary until
then to continue the survey down the Rio
Grande, so far as the means at their disposal
would enable them, or at once to disband the
commission.
A special messenger has since arrived in
charge of the survey on the river. with in.
formation that the funds subject to his con-
troll was exhausted, and that the officers and
others employed IN the survey were destitute
alike of the means eff prosecuting the work
and of returning to their homes. The obiecs