The General Land Office: Its History, Activities, and OrganizationJohns Hopkins Press, 1923 - 224 pages |
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... needed in order to control the activities of pioneers and squatters before they became recognized as " homesteaders . " Many of these aggressive settlers began to thrust beyond the frontier with their families and to occupy lands ...
... needed in order to control the activities of pioneers and squatters before they became recognized as " homesteaders . " Many of these aggressive settlers began to thrust beyond the frontier with their families and to occupy lands ...
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... needed to augment their financial resources . From the time of William Penn to 1776 , Penn- sylvania lands were sold for income at a fixed price either through the proprietors or through agents . In 1681 William Penn appointed an ...
... needed to augment their financial resources . From the time of William Penn to 1776 , Penn- sylvania lands were sold for income at a fixed price either through the proprietors or through agents . In 1681 William Penn appointed an ...
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... needed to defray other expenses of the war , and on October 15 , 1777 , Maryland proposed that Congress establish national sovereignty over the region northwest of the Ohio river . " This proposition implied the need of a land office ...
... needed to defray other expenses of the war , and on October 15 , 1777 , Maryland proposed that Congress establish national sovereignty over the region northwest of the Ohio river . " This proposition implied the need of a land office ...
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... needed at once . Eventually some of the methods of land administration as practiced in the various colonies and those proposed by England in 1774 were or- ganized into a general land system for the new national government . After 1783 ...
... needed at once . Eventually some of the methods of land administration as practiced in the various colonies and those proposed by England in 1774 were or- ganized into a general land system for the new national government . After 1783 ...
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... needed . Thousands of settlers had already taken vacant lands and were waiting for the legal disposal of it . On July 22 , 1789 Congress entertained a resolution to the effect that " an act of Congress ought to pass for establishing a ...
... needed . Thousands of settlers had already taken vacant lands and were waiting for the legal disposal of it . On July 22 , 1789 Congress entertained a resolution to the effect that " an act of Congress ought to pass for establishing a ...
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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.