The General Land Office: Its History, Activities, and OrganizationJohns Hopkins Press, 1923 - 224 pages |
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... Re - organization in 1836 . The Re - organization of the General Land Office in 1836 Development of the General Land ... Resurveys Map Compiling and Drafting Surveys in Alaska Miscellaneous Surveys Protection of the Public Domain · Swamp ...
... Re - organization in 1836 . The Re - organization of the General Land Office in 1836 Development of the General Land ... Resurveys Map Compiling and Drafting Surveys in Alaska Miscellaneous Surveys Protection of the Public Domain · Swamp ...
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... surveys in Alaska , of which more than nine million were completed in 1920. To this must be added more than two million acres of resurveys . There remained unsurveyed 549,000,000 acres , of which 172,367,339 acres are in the United ...
... surveys in Alaska , of which more than nine million were completed in 1920. To this must be added more than two million acres of resurveys . There remained unsurveyed 549,000,000 acres , of which 172,367,339 acres are in the United ...
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... survey at a stipulated amount a day for a limited number of days . This system took care of a few of the more favorable cases , but the great majority remained untouched . Furthermore , the necessity for executing resurveys in certain ...
... survey at a stipulated amount a day for a limited number of days . This system took care of a few of the more favorable cases , but the great majority remained untouched . Furthermore , the necessity for executing resurveys in certain ...
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... surveys and resurveys.7 Surveys of Townships . These surveys are made of those townships which are " occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers , " and they are given preference in the appropriations When a township applies for a ...
... surveys and resurveys.7 Surveys of Townships . These surveys are made of those townships which are " occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers , " and they are given preference in the appropriations When a township applies for a ...
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... resurveys . Copies of township plats are placed in the various depart- ments for official use . More than two thousand copies were disposed of for this purpose in 1920 , 10 and more than seven- teen thousand were sold for private use ...
... resurveys . Copies of township plats are placed in the various depart- ments for official use . More than two thousand copies were disposed of for this purpose in 1920 , 10 and more than seven- teen thousand were sold for private use ...
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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.