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OF

THE COMMISSIONER

OF

THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE

FOR THE

FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1881.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1881.

LETTER

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE

TRANSMITTING ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1881.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

GENERAL LAND OFFICE,

October 25, 1881.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following synopsis of the annual report of this office for the fiscal year ending with June 30, 1881, viz:

Abstract of operations under the laws relating to the survey and disposal of public and Indian lands during the fiscal year ending with June 30, 1881.

Cash sales:

Private entries

Public sales....

Timber and stone lands.

Pre-emption entries.

Desert lands

Mineral lands

Coal lands

Excesses...

Abandoned military reservations

Total......

Homestead entries....

Timber culture entries.

Locations with military bounty land warrants issued under acts of 1847,

1850, 1852, and 1855....

Agricultural college scrip locations

Supreme court scrip locations

Valentine scrip locations

Sioux half-breed scrip locations..

Chippewa half-breed scrip locations.

Locations with Porterfield scrip....

Lands certified or patented for railroad purposes to States:

Alabama...

Iowa
Minnesota

Kansas

To corporations:

Pacific railroads.................

State selections, approved for

School indemnity

Internal improvements

Agricultural colleges
Seminaries..

Donation claims...

Approved to States as swamp.

Total..

Acres. 666, 229. 11 2,279.40 42, 987.92 721, 146. 26 108, 560.02 27, 189.68 4,975.58 12, 339.06 1, 910. 21

1,587, 617.24

5, 028, 100. 69 1,763, 799. 35

55,662.36 360.00 28, 253.74 392.15 2,519.27 800.00 16.86

383.23

73, 321.58 4-3,466.63 281, 277.28

211, 992. 04

15, 880.00 1,760.00 1,370, 45 3,964. 14 18, 237.06 569,001. 18

10, 128, 175. 25 1

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Which added to the sales of public lands makes a grand total of ................ 10, 893, 397. 05

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Homestead fees and commissions...

Timber culture fees and commissions..

Fees on military bounty land warrant locations

Fees on locations with different classes of scrip..

Fees in pre-emption and other filings..

Fees in mining applications and protests.

Fees on timber land entries......

Fees for reducing testimony to writing, by local officers

Fees on railroad selections

Fees on state selections...

Fees on donation claims

Fees for transcripts, furnished by the General Land Office, during the fiscal year of 1881

Total

$3,534, 550 98 1,006, 691 63 556,766 16 154,739 35 1,484 00

17.00

59,366 00

28,310 00

3,330 00 47,625 24 3,581 27

4, 199 63 1,415 00

6,727 90

5,408, 804. 16

SURVEYS.

Total area of the land States and Territories..

Acres. 1,814, 788, 922

Surveyed up to June 30, 1880

752, 557, 194

Surveyed but not heretofore reported

10, 561, 775

Surveyed during the fiscal year ending with the 30th of
June, 1881

21,788, 011

784,906, 9-0

1,029, 881, 942

Leaving....

acres of public and Indian lands yet to be surveyed, inclusive of private land claims surveyed at the close of the fiscal year ending with the 30th of June, 1881.

The surveys during the past fiscal year show an increase of 6,058,759 acres over those executed during previous year. This extraordinary showing is mainly attributable to the great demand for surveys under the deposit system, and to which reference is hereinafter made.

The sales of public lands as compared with those of the previous fiscal year, show a decrease of 3,898,974.60 acres, while the aggregate of cash receipts, under various heads, is greater by $2,508,642.56.

During the year there were received 83,864 letters, and 68,427 were written and recorded, covering 60,325 pages of record books, and during the same period there were issued and transmitted 56,979 patents. This amount embraces patents for private land claims, mining claims, lands granted for railroad purposes, swamp lands, Indian lands, and for lands sold under the pre-emption and homestead laws.

There were also audited, adjusted, and reported to the First Comptroller of the Treasury 2,800 accounts, embracing accounts of surveyors

* This money is deposited by the receivers of public moueys in the United States Treasury, to the credit of the Indian funds, for the benefit of the Indians, under treaty stipulations.

general, deputy surveyors, registers and receivers, special agents, &c., covering 13,350 pages of record.

In addition to the clerical work performed in the several divisions of the office, the following is a list of papers accompanying the annual report.

1. Statement showing the number of acres called for by military bounty land warrants located in the several land States and Territories.

2. Decision rendered by the Secretary of the Interior in regard to the question of jurisdiction over the assignments of warrants after their issue and delivery by the Commissioner of Pensions.

3. Condition of business relating to revolutionary bounty land scripVirginia military district in Ohio-warrants under act of July 27, 1842, and Porterfield warrants.

4. Tabular statement showing condition of bounty land business since the commencement of operations to the close of the fiscal year last past.

5. Decisions and rulings relating to desert lands.

6. Decisions and rulings under the timber culture acts.

7. Decisions and rulings under the homestead laws.

8. Withdrawal of lands in the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota for reservoir purposes.

9. Condition of military reservations-Fort Ripley, Dalles, Fort Kearney, and Fort Harker.

10. Indian lands; Osage trust and diminished reserve lands; absentee Shawnee lands.

11. Statement showing disposal of Indian lands in Kansas.

12. Indian reservations: Pawnee, in Nebraska; Sac and Fox and Otoe and Missouria Reservations.

13. Decisions relating to private land claims in California, New Mexico, and Missouri.

14. Construction of act of June 15, 1880, affecting heirs or legal representatives of Israel Dodge, deceased.

15. Table showing the apportionment to the several surveying districts of the sum of $300,000, appropriated for the survey of public lands by act of Congress approved June 16, 1880.

16. Abstract of surveying operations in the sixteen surveying districts under the supervision of the respective surveyors general.

17. Table exhibiting the comparative progress of surveys, number of surveying districts, land districts, cost of surveys, number of acres surveyed, and number of acres disposed of during the five years ending with June 30, 1881.

18. Surveys under the deposit system, authorized by sections 2401, 2402 and 2403. United States Revised Statutes.

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area remaining unsurveyed in each of the land States and Territories at the close of the fiscal year.

24. Estimates of appropriations required for surveying the public

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