Annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877
Contributors: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher: [U.S. Department of the Interior, General Land Office]
Published: 1877
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Politics and government; Public lands; Surveys; Statistics; Public Expenditures; Appropriations and expenditures; United States; United States. General Land Office
Other titles: Annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1877; Land office report, 1877
Notes: Chiefly tables.
Table of contents: title: Letter of the Commissioner, transmitting his annual report...containing a review of the land system...and recommending legislation in regard to reorganization and increase of the clerical force; title: Necessity of a complete law library; title: Judicial tribunal and codification and revision of the laws relating to public lands; title: Correction of errors in compilation of Revised Statutes; title: Overpayment of illegal exactions; title: Cases of deposit by settlers; title: Decisions in land cases; title: Act March 3, 1875, error in description; title: Authority to issue commissions; title: Issue of patents for lands located under sixth section of act of June 22, 1860; title: Consolidation of all the offices of the surveyors general; title: Abolition of the contract system of surveying; title: Appointments of one surveyor general of the United States with authority to appoint assistants.; title: Survey of islands and beds of meandered lakes, sloughs, and ponds; title: Lapsed railroad grants; title: Survey appraisal, and sale of lands valuable only for the pine and other timber; title: Settlement of private land claims; title: Abolition of the fee system in district land offices; title: Direct appropriations for salaries; title: Extension of act of March 7, 1877; title: Recommends legislation in regard to the pre-emption, homestead, timber, and desert land laws; title: Operations under the laws of governing the survey and disposal of public lands.