The General Land Office: Its History, Activities, and OrganizationJohns Hopkins Press, 1923 - 224 pages |
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... departments , establishments , and bu- reaus , and the elimination of duplications of plant , organiza- tion and work . Through them it will also be possible to sub- ject any particular feature of the administrative work of the ...
... departments , establishments , and bu- reaus , and the elimination of duplications of plant , organiza- tion and work . Through them it will also be possible to sub- ject any particular feature of the administrative work of the ...
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... Department of the Interior , is engaged chiefly in the survey , management , and disposal of the public lands . To perform these functions it is necessary for the Commis- sioner as the executive head of the General Land Office to direct ...
... Department of the Interior , is engaged chiefly in the survey , management , and disposal of the public lands . To perform these functions it is necessary for the Commis- sioner as the executive head of the General Land Office to direct ...
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... private sale . They were to be managed by a board of treasury consisting of three commissioners , this board being then the only treasury department . The office of geographer was created to direct the surveys . Under him were HISTORY 7.
... private sale . They were to be managed by a board of treasury consisting of three commissioners , this board being then the only treasury department . The office of geographer was created to direct the surveys . Under him were HISTORY 7.
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... Department of the Treasury was 18 Three subsequent decades are reviewed in detail in Treat , The national land system , 1785-1820 . 14 Hart , The disposition of our public lands , Quarterly Journal of Economics , vol . I , p . 174 . 15 ...
... Department of the Treasury was 18 Three subsequent decades are reviewed in detail in Treat , The national land system , 1785-1820 . 14 Hart , The disposition of our public lands , Quarterly Journal of Economics , vol . I , p . 174 . 15 ...
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... department of the government . He was to send the officers in charge of sales , descriptions of the surveyed lands . Plats of townships were kept by him . For public information copies of these plats were to be kept open at his office ...
... department of the government . He was to send the officers in charge of sales , descriptions of the surveyed lands . Plats of townships were kept by him . For public information copies of these plats were to be kept open at his office ...
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2d sess 3,000 Chief Clerk 41 Stat 64th Congress Abandoned Military Reservations acres act of March administration Alaska American Historical Association Annual Report application appropriation approved Bureau Carey Act Chief of Division Circular claimants classification coal lands Commissioner Congress Contingent Expenses coöperation Department Desert Land district land offices Draftsman duties entryman field service fiscal forest reserves Geological Survey Govt Hearings Homestead Act homestead entry homestead laws hundred Idaho Indian reservations Interior June 30 land grants Land Law Clerk lease maps ment Military Reservations Montana Oregon organization patents President public domain public lands Public lands commission railroad reclamation records register and receiver Register Receiver regulations Rept Rufus Putnam Salaries Secretary Section Senate Serial settlers South Dakota Special Agent Stenographer and Typist Surveying Public Lands surveyors swamp system of survey Territory timber and stone tion township tract Treasury United Washington Wyoming
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Page 150 - An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any.
Page viii - They give : first, the history of the establishment and development of the service ; second, its functions, described not in general terms, but by detailing its specific activities; third, its organization for the handling of these activities ; fourth, the character of its plant ; fifth, a compilation of, or reference to, the laws and regulations governing its operations ; sixth, financial statements showing its appropriations, expenditures and other data for a period of years ; and finally, a full...
Page 99 - ... located, or to determine what services are maintaining stations at any city or point in the United States. The Institute hopes that upon the completion of the present series, it will be able to prepare a complete classified statement of the technical and other facilities at the disposal of the government. The present monographs will then furnish the details regarding the 1 House Doc.
Page 140 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page vii - This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism. Never have the foundations been laid for a thorough consideration of the relations of all of its parts. No comprehensive effort has been made to list its multifarious activities or to group them in such a way as to present a clear picture of what the government is doing. Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time...
Page 98 - Organization have for their purpose to make known in detail the organization and personnel possessed by the several services of the national government to which they relate. They have been prepared in accordance with the plan followed by the President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency in the preparation of its outlines of the organization of the United States...
Page 149 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 5 - That the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain and fix the western boundary of such States as claim to the Mississippi or South Sea, and lay out the land beyond the boundary so ascertained into separate and independent States from time to time as the numbers and circumstances of the people thereof may require.
Page 6 - Public Good BEING AN EXAMINATION INTO THE CLAIM OF VIRGINIA TO THE VACANT WESTERN TERRITORY, AND OF THE RIGHT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE SAME. To WHICH Is ADDED, PROPOSALS FOR LAYING OFF A NEW STATE, To BE APPLIED AS A FUND FOR CARRYING ON THE WAR, OR REDEEMING THE NATIONAL DEBT.
Page 148 - ... purposes by a person in military service or his dependents at the commencement of his period of military service and still so occupied by his dependents or employees are not paid.