Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-03
PENSIONS AND LANDS.
Extracts from the Reports of the Com
missioners of These Important Bu.


Extracts from tho Reports of the Com.
missioners of These Important Bu.
reeus.
WASHINGTON, Sept 28.-The anDua]
report of Commissioner Raum, Of the
pension bureau, submitted to the sec.
retary of the Interior shows that on
June 80, 1891, there were 676, 100 pen.
sioners borne on the rolls of the
bureau, being 1925 more than were
carried on the rolls at the close of the
last fiscal year. They are classified rs
follows: Widows and daughters of re-
volutionary soldiers, twenty-three;
army invalid pensioners, 413, ,597; army
widows, minor children, etc, 10s,537:
navy invalid pensioners, 5,440; navy
widows, minor children, etc, 2,56S;
survivors of the war of 1912, 1850;
survivors of the Mexican war, 16,37o;
widows of soldiers of the Mexican war,
6,97B
The aggregate annual value of the
676, 100 pensions on the roll June 30,
1891, was $50, 247,2O and the average
annual value of each pension was
S139.09 and the average annual value OF
each pension under the act of June 81,
1890. was S121.51.
At the close of the fiscal year there
were 49, 574 pensioners on the roll who
remained unpaid for the want of time
and who were entitled to receive
$4, ,ss3,242, which will be paid
out of the appropriation for
the current fiscal year; and
there remained at the close of the fiscal
| year in the hands of the several PEN
-. Df
which has since been covered into the
treasury. This amount added to SO, co.,
1888 90 of the pension appropriation not
drawn from the treasury aggregates
SO, $40, ,9S6. O6 of the appropriation which
was not expended. There will be a
deficiency in the appropriation for the
payment of fees and expenses of eX-
aiming surgeons of about 100000.
The total amount disbursed on ac.
count of pensions. expenses, etc, dur
ing the fiscal year was Sis, 5iS, 959.71, as
compared with Sl06, 49S, S90.19 dis
bursed during the preceding fiscal
year; so that it appears that 13S,21C
pensioners were added to the rolls
during the fiscal year just closed, al
an icreased cost to the nation of Sl2,'
O55, ,O69 as compared with the expen.
ditures for the previous fiscal year, an6
said expenditure includes S4,357, 341
paid upon vouchers remaining unpaiG
at the close of the year.
The loss to the pension rolls by the
death of widows and dependent
mothers and fathers was at the rate O
35 per 1000 in 1891. 1t is estimated
that of the soldiers who served th,
country during the late war 1,O04 65
were killed in battle or died during
and since the war. On June 80 las
124,75O of these deceased soldiers wer'
represented on the pension rolls b.,
their widows or other dependents
There are about 1,20S, 707 soldiers o
the union now living, and 6SS,54 sur
vivors who are not pensioned and S79,
9OS deceased soldiers not represented ol
the pension rolls.
The commissioner says that on al
average about 80, 900 pension certificate
are being issued each month, and tina
during the current year he expects tina
| as many as $50, 900 claims will be adju
dicated, for which he believes the pres
ent appropriation of S133, 473, 0S5 vii
| be sufficient.
, WASHINGTON, Sept 26.-Land Con-
: missioner Carter has given out re
port from which is taken the follow
ing, showing the vacant public lands i
: each of the public land states and tel
tories
Alabama, 94T, $40; Arizona, 55,06l, ,005; Arsal
sas, 4,99s, 1895; California 52,,229, 400; Colorad
49, 1877 ,03D: Florida, 3,46s, ,38l; Idaho, 33,;Sl S5
Iowa. 5000; Kansas, 100, 07S; Louisiana ,si3 III
Michigan 1Si,Sl Minnesota 9, s49,975; Missi
/. sppi 1901 $50; Missouri 1898; Mo
, tana, "A 4,3I2, 769; Nebraska, 1l,46o 436; Nevad
53,6Ss,524; New Mexico, 54,S93,6 ,670 North d.
kota 49, 1876, ,440; Oklahoma, 3,5o2, 4O6; Orego
80, eco ISL; South Dakota, l4,0S5, 1894; Utah, 81
/, 42s9S7; Washington, 2o,40l SOL; Wisconsi
l,0O3,133; Wyoming, bosi2, 4S. Total, b7966+
6S3 acres.
a Patents issued during the years is!
and 1891 were: Presumption, 1881
: homesteads, 75.545; timber culture,
346; military bounty land, 723; agr
: cultural college scrip, SO; miscellaneol
scrip, 446; mineral, 8, 1872; coal, 450.
The total number of agriculture
4 patents issued during 1SS6-'S7 was Al
d 443, against total of 231,GO7 durir
the years 1890 and 1891, an increase
Y 1877, 1854 patents. The increase in tt
d number of mineral patents issued W;
e OCT and of coal patents 3S2.
), The number of acres of public LAM
3 disposed of during the year shows tn
q the cash sales amounted to 2, 1850
# acres Of the miscellaneous entri
n (not cash) 5,040,39S acres We're HON
e steaded; 959,00 acres We're enter,
IS under the timber culture law. The ra
j, road selections amounted to 1857,
e acres; the state selections to 174,4
i acres; the Indian allotments to 1T, As
1t and the original swamp selections
g 23. 1877 acres. Total cash receipts dr
n ing the year S5,4a9,2 go. Filings duril
Is the year 2O,24l, the fees on viii
t. amounted to S77,060.
~ Latest Granger Organization.
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