The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-04
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during the same period, s 423 984 IS acres were
offered Tor sale. The cash receipts from safes and
ssDtheI sources were 1924 645'08. The number of
homestt ad entries exceeded that of the preceding
year by more than sky per cent
There are sixtf-one land districts and ten survey
ing departments. During the past year surveying
operations have been prosecuted with energy IN
California. Oregon. Nevada and Washington, but
have been deferred on account of Indian hoshli.
condition o affairs IN Utah has preveated any
' Veys there since the year 1851. At that dale two
nd half million acres had been surveyed In order
hat they may be, disposed of, it is recommended
Ii vat land district be created IN that Territory
The entIe amount OF the public domain is
i65 46S 800 ac of which 474 16O 55 acres have
be en- surveyed.
TO assure upon the most liberal conditions to tue
act ual settler title to h,s home and improvements
His preference right of purchase is not confined 10
LAM is which were surveyed at the time OF his settle
men {; nor IS he required to pay tor them, or tor
thos surveyed but unOffered, until the day desg-
mates by the fresoents proclamation for the pu lc
sale. Differences OF opinion exist the applca.
q ongi ess prescribing The period w.hln which the
a, etory statement for unsuryeyed lands must be
fh ed. 70 distinction ought to be made regard to
IN, tim allowed for the payment for unotered lands
ant th,sse which have been offered. l CO .cur in
Ofo to the changes that might be advantageously
made in existing Pre-empton laws. They also
shoal be greatly simptied and rendered more UNI
form their operation. In this way controversies
such n, ' nave been occas!0ned by IncOngruous and
Sems sSSS this wao AND @ just pSos eesua aRS t9S
secured. :, 90 .,
attaches
date Of III actual personal settlement; that Of the
Homestead settler from The date of ms entry at the
local lane o. hce The latter is confined TO survey ed
iSSds In en- her case the tite may be cons1 minated
by lul com ollance with the terms and conditions
i%PSssG SrtV RSo SS settled with yiew vic to
ton mpona pal tcuiaT tract and thus excluded others
IRON acquirinG right thereto, should not be per-
mitted to abanIl n his original claim and enter the
land under the homestead law. Such a privilege
would IN aG Ssvo IS lead to grest
land by these essaetInents essentially differ; and il
the claimant NpNsr presumption law daIls to per.
in Cur the consequences OF sueh failure.
Authority shoEld be gwen 20 the head ofthe de.
partIRant to close up Sle local ONCE, and transfer
aTchIVas where the lands in State nearly all
disposed OF he Ilowes vested IN the local officers
might be conferred Upon the Commissioner the
General LAND Office, to enable him 80 give 4itle on
tho h OF tue few remaining tracts.
the m. nimga price oftwenty dollars per acre under
the supplenaeLtaI act Of March g. 1856 tor the dis
ininimnin, where the coal is Of inferior qua ty aud
cannot be obatAsd without difficulty, is submitted
United States is esflI1ted at Two hundred thousand
Land oifces have begn reopened in Florida. Ala.
bama, Mississppi, Louis lana, aud Arkansas. By the
act approved June n. 1855, public lands i'll these
states are M reserved e exeuiyely ior homestead en-,
OF its passage only eighty cres can be entsyed oy
one person, The oplnoT, H, o. the Attorney-GeI,era
must issue from the General Land Office, will gOVesn
the action of this department,
The law tOrblds any incumbent in tue General
Land Ofice to purchase public lands. suggest the
RTopTiety OF extending II as 20 INCLUDE every
Officer in any way connected with the administra.
tion of the laws relating 10 them,
The grant TO Iowa for the improvement Of the
Des Moines river has been 1uly satisfied. IL en-
hIaced eight hundred and thirtyihree thousand and
seventy nine and ninety hnndred,hs acres.
There still remain nnsold seventy. seven lots stu
ate within the Fort Howard reserve, in Wisconsin
They will be disposed Of IN accordance with the
OF July A. 1896 ttlU I1t .I
Up to June so. 1885, forty three million two hun.
dIed four thousand seven hlndrod and seventy
sour acres Of swamp lands had Been patented 10 tb