Field division headquarters of special agents of General Land Office. A. Administrative duties. Appointments; bonds of officials, except mineral surveyors; correspondence concerning local officers, surveyors general, etc.; establishment of new land districts, changes in location of district land offices, changes in district boundary lines, discontinuance of local land offices; publication of notices of intention to offer final proof; opening and sale of Indian reservations; printing and binding; bird reservations; national monuments; leaves of absences; requisitions for supplies; record of attorneys and agents admitted before department and its bureaus, also before district land offices. B. Record of patents; use of rectigraph and photostat machines in making photographic copies of papers. C. Homesteads, all original, except forest and reclamation; final homesteads; commuted homesteads; homestead declaratory statements; timber and stone entries; public sales; isolated tracts; certified copies; private sale, lands in Missouri. D. Mails and files. E. Surveys. F. Railroad grants; cash sales under act providing for adjustment of railroad grants; wagon roads, rights of way for canals, ditches, etc.; reservoir declaratory statements, State selections (Carey Act). G. Desert-land entries, original and final; State selections (except Carey Act); Indian allotments and Indian homesteads; swamp lands. H. Contests. K. Reclamation; preemption; homesteads in national forests; town sites; military bounty land warrants; abandoned military reservations; agricultural college and other similar scrip; lieu selections; graduation and credit system entries; private land claims; Minnesota drainage; Chippewa logging-Minnesota. L. Drafting; forest reserve eliminations, restorations, etc.; national monument files; compilation of United States and other maps; blue printing; mounting of maps and plats. M. Accounts; repayments; monthly schedules; statistics. N. Mineral entries; contests involving character of land; protests in mineral cases; coal, oil, phosphate and potash withdrawals and restorations; Northern Pacific classification; mineral segregation plats; bonds of mineral surveyors. O. Posting, tract books. FS. Soldiers' additional homesteads; fraudulent entries; timber trespass; unlawful inclosure public domain; suits to set aside patents; disbarment of attorneys and agents. Average number of employees of the General Land Office, July 1, 1914. In General Land Office, Washington, D. C.. In 13 offices of surveyors general. In 99 district land offices. In the field service... In the surveying service. Total.... 527 170 432 148 126 14 4 7 1, 428 Final homestead entries from the passage of the homestead act to June 30, 1914. Timber and stone entries from the passage of the act of June 3, 1878, to June 30, 1914. Desert-land entries from the passage of the act of Mar. 3, 1877, to June 30, 1914. Total.. 147, 154 35, 471 30, 785, 366. 01 6, 824, 170. 237, 387, 955. 64 6,974, 893. 36 14,272,779.00 Coal land entries from the passage of the act of Mar. 3, 1873, to June 30, 1914. 1 The showing of 159 "entries" in this table includes locations on which final certificates have issued, and those on which payment has been made but for which receiver's receipt only has issued. There are only 35 coal claims in Alaska on which final certificates have issued to date, which carry an area of 5,446,848 acres, for which there has been paid $54,468.48, 33 of which have been canceled. This explanation is made in view of the fact that in prior reports all proofs upon which payments were made were given as entries. Within the Ute Indian Reservation. Land concessions by acts of Congress to States and corporations for railroad and military wagon-road purposes from the year 1850 to June 30, 1914. 1 In the adjustment of this grant the road was treated as an entirety and without reference to the State line; hence Alabama has had approved to her more and Mississippi less than they would appear to be entitled to in proportion to the length of the road in the respective States. 2 This grant was adjusted Apr. 24, 1893, and 302,181.16 acres were allotted to the company. The balance of the previously certified lands were ordered restored to entry under the forfeiture act of Sept. 29, 1890. 3 Certified lands, footing 719,189.79 acres, were reconveyed to the United States by the governor of Louisiana Feb. 24, 1888, the grant having been forfeited by the act of July 14, 1870 (16 Stat., 277). Includes 35,685.49 acres of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R.; 109,756.85 acres of the Cedar Rapids & Missouri River R. R.; and 77,535.22 acres of the Dubuque & Sioux City R. R., situated in the old Des Moines River grant of Aug. 8, 1846, which should be deducted from the foregoing amount. (Wolcott v. Des Moines Co., 5 Wall., 631.) 60734°- -INT 1914-VOL 1-12 |