Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1872
Contributors: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher: [U.S. Department of the Interior, General Land Office]
Published: 1872
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
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, 1872; Land office report, 1872
Notes: Chiefly tables.
Table of contents: title: Commissioner's letter of transmission; title: Surveys of public lands; title: Synopsis of the surveying service in the seventeen surveying districts; title: Of pre-emption laws and rulings; title: Town sites; title: Homestead laws; title: Graduated lands; title: Public sales of timber lands; title: Timber depredations; title: Swamp and overflowed lands; title: Sale of morass lands on the Little Calumet River, in Indiana; title: Useless military reservations; title: Educational land bounty; title: Railroads; title: Mining statutes; title: Private land claims; title: Tree culture; title: Reports of surveyors general, numbered from A to Q.