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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... present system is so simple and efficient , so well adapted to the wants of our population and the interests of the service , that it is not susceptible of much improvement . Such modi- fications as were needed to perfect it were ...
... present system is so simple and efficient , so well adapted to the wants of our population and the interests of the service , that it is not susceptible of much improvement . Such modi- fications as were needed to perfect it were ...
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... present the following as an abstract of the annual report of this office for the year 1867 : 1. The area of the public lands , exclusive of the Russian purchase , is 1,465,468,800 acres . The extent of that purchase is estimated at ...
... present the following as an abstract of the annual report of this office for the year 1867 : 1. The area of the public lands , exclusive of the Russian purchase , is 1,465,468,800 acres . The extent of that purchase is estimated at ...
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... present proportions and completeness of scientific structure . Under that system base lines are first established , corresponding with lati- tude . These are then intersected at right angles by principal meridians in coin- cidence with ...
... present proportions and completeness of scientific structure . Under that system base lines are first established , corresponding with lati- tude . These are then intersected at right angles by principal meridians in coin- cidence with ...
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... present boundaries . The Virginia military reservation , between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers , extending from their head - waters to the Chio , covers an area of 6,570 square miles , or 4,204,800 acres , being nearly one - sixth ...
... present boundaries . The Virginia military reservation , between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers , extending from their head - waters to the Chio , covers an area of 6,570 square miles , or 4,204,800 acres , being nearly one - sixth ...
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... present limits , and in 1816 it was admitted into the Union . Like the whole northwest territory , it was originally claimed by the French , but was ceded to England by treaty of 1763 between Great Britain , France and Spain , and in ...
... present limits , and in 1816 it was admitted into the Union . Like the whole northwest territory , it was originally claimed by the French , but was ceded to England by treaty of 1763 between Great Britain , France and Spain , and in ...
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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.