The General Land Office: Its History, Activities, and OrganizationJohns Hopkins Press, 1923 - 224 pages |
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... million persons are re- quired to do the work imposed by law upon the executive branch of the government . " This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism . Never have the foundations ...
... million persons are re- quired to do the work imposed by law upon the executive branch of the government . " This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism . Never have the foundations ...
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... million acres of the United States public domain , excluding Alaska , were disposed of , there would still be a constant and vital need for the General Land Office . For in many of the Western states there is scarcely a home that is not ...
... million acres of the United States public domain , excluding Alaska , were disposed of , there would still be a constant and vital need for the General Land Office . For in many of the Western states there is scarcely a home that is not ...
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... millions of acres to four companies which later involved the national government . This speculation in the West and in the South threatened the normal development of the country . The impending struggle with Great Britain in 1812 did ...
... millions of acres to four companies which later involved the national government . This speculation in the West and in the South threatened the normal development of the country . The impending struggle with Great Britain in 1812 did ...
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... million dollars of land debt of land purchasers had been liquidated in nine years.31 Special land legislation was some- what in vogue . There were such acts as that of June 30 , 1834 ( 4 Stat . L. , 743 ) , which granted thirty - six ...
... million dollars of land debt of land purchasers had been liquidated in nine years.31 Special land legislation was some- what in vogue . There were such acts as that of June 30 , 1834 ( 4 Stat . L. , 743 ) , which granted thirty - six ...
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... million acres . The Preemption Act of September 4 , 1841 ( 5 Stat . L. , 453 ) and the Homestead Act of May 20 , 1862 ( 12 Stat . L. , 392 ) , as approved by President Lincoln , greatly burdened the General Land Office.37 These laws ...
... million acres . The Preemption Act of September 4 , 1841 ( 5 Stat . L. , 453 ) and the Homestead Act of May 20 , 1862 ( 12 Stat . L. , 392 ) , as approved by President Lincoln , greatly burdened the General Land Office.37 These laws ...
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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.