Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeThe Office, 1867 - Public lands |
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... less than 1,000,000 Within this tract , on the site of the present town of Marietta , in 1788 the first permanent white settlement within the limits of the State appears to have been made , and the oldest town in Ohio had its beginning ...
... less than 1,000,000 Within this tract , on the site of the present town of Marietta , in 1788 the first permanent white settlement within the limits of the State appears to have been made , and the oldest town in Ohio had its beginning ...
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... less precipitous , and generally cultivated to their summits . A ridge of high lands is found crossing the northern half of the State from east to west , forming the water - shed between the streams flowing into Lake Erie and those ...
... less precipitous , and generally cultivated to their summits . A ridge of high lands is found crossing the northern half of the State from east to west , forming the water - shed between the streams flowing into Lake Erie and those ...
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... less quantity of inferior land . The valley of the Maumee contains 2,000 square miles in the northeast part of the State , of the same general character as the eastern portion of the Wabash and White River valleys . The bottom lands of ...
... less quantity of inferior land . The valley of the Maumee contains 2,000 square miles in the northeast part of the State , of the same general character as the eastern portion of the Wabash and White River valleys . The bottom lands of ...
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... less abundant and more expensive . Besides coal , iron , limestone , marble , freestone , gypsum , and grindstones , slate of several varieties , clays useful in the arts , and some copper are found in the State . In 1860 $ 300,000 were ...
... less abundant and more expensive . Besides coal , iron , limestone , marble , freestone , gypsum , and grindstones , slate of several varieties , clays useful in the arts , and some copper are found in the State . In 1860 $ 300,000 were ...
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... less so than on the Atlantic in the same parallel . The summers are warm , yet agreeably modified by continual breezes . The State , every portion of which is healthy , occupies a leading agricultural position , there being few regions ...
... less so than on the Atlantic in the same parallel . The summers are warm , yet agreeably modified by continual breezes . The State , every portion of which is healthy , occupies a leading agricultural position , there being few regions ...
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Page 87 - Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal; but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which though rarely called for are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country and some of them to its preservation.
Page 102 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 266 - SIR: In accordance with your instructions I have the honor to submit the following report of...
Page 87 - ... convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people ; and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights ; to discern and provide against invasions of them ; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority...
Page 87 - Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential.
Page 94 - That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby authorized, under the direction of the President of the United States, to cause to be sold such military sites belonging to the United States as may have been found, or become, useless for military purposes.
Page 87 - ... if a love of virtuous men of all parties and denominations ; if a love of science and letters, and a wish to patronize every rational effort to encourage schools, colleges, universities, academies, and every institution for propagating knowledge, virtue, and religion among all classes of the people...
Page 96 - ... to the state by the act of September 28, 1850, and were patented to him by the state on the 3d day of November, 1887, whereby he acquired a title to the same superior to that attempted to be passed to the defendant by the prior patent, based on an act of congress of August 26, 1852, grantIng public lands to Michigan to aid In the construction of a ship canal around the Falls of St Mary. There was proof showing that the state and the Interior department made a selection of lands under the swamp...
Page 77 - May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, " to reduce the expenses of the survey and sale of the public lands in the United States.
Page 102 - The question is well settled at common law, that the person whose land is bounded by a stream of water which changes its course gradually by alluvial formations, shall still hold by the same boundary, including the accumulated soil. No other rule can be applied on just principles. Every proprietor whose land is thus bounded is subject to loss by the same means which may add to his territory; and, as he is without remedy for his loss in this way, he cannot be held accountable for his gain.