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Show CASH SALES, 1820-1840 165 Acreage of Public Land Surveyed, Proclaimed for Sale and Sold to September 30, 1837" Year Surveyed Proclaimed Sold By Year 1787 to 1822________..............._________________ 78,723,174 1823------------.....______....._____________.......... 11,414,598 1824..........________________................_____ 7,294,186 1825_____________________________________......___ 3,419,604 1826_____........____......_____________......____ 2,880,703 1827______________________________________________ 3,314,816 1828______________________________________________ 3,268,493 1829______________________________________________ 6,148,962 1830......._____________________ 4,340,040 6,750,798 1831___________________________ 4,988,160 11,005,561 1832___________________________ 9,250,560 4,205,805 1833______________________________________________ 6,614,596 1834______________________________________________ 13,056,865 1835_____________.......__________________________ 13,767,268 1836______________________________________________ 509,034 1837__________________________....._______________________________ Totals______________________ 189,686,085 172,374,470 By States Ohio_______________.........___ 16,555,952 16,512,110 Indiana_________________________ 20,155,697 18,464,679 Illinois__________________________ 24,975,656 23,991,748 Missouri________________________ . 21,440,796 21,004,365 Alabama________________________ 29,856,270 29,265,055 Mississippi__________________..... 20,791,826 20,172,482 Louisiana_______________________ 10,530,359 6,543,393 Michigan_______________________ 13,532,192 12,731,853 Arkansas________________________ 13,913,431 12,662,900 Florida_________________________ 9,254,297 6,218,573 Wisconsin........________________ 8,679,605 4,807,307 Total________________________ 189,686,085 172,374,470 15,614,499 653,319 749,323 893,461 848,082 926,727 965,600 1,244,860 1,929,733 2,777,856 2,462,342 3,856,227 4,658,218 12,564,478 20,074,870 4,805,462 75,025,055 12,373,247 13,754,370 9,273,256 5,531,954 10,088,687 9,235,945 2,010,426 8,894,224 2,127,695 683,324 1,051,921 75,025,055 »//. Ex. Doc, 25th Cong., 2d sess., Vol. V, No. 80, Jan. 8, 1838, p. 3 and Vol. VI, No. 136, Jan. 30, 1838, pp. 10-11. Yearly figures for the acreage surveyed are not available except for 1830-1832. was tabled in the House by a vote of 107-91. For the next few years discussion in the Congress centered on graduation and distribution.56 A Waning and Waxing of Sales Congress was reasonably responsive to groups who wanted surveys to be pushed ahead rapidly. Early pioneers, many of whom were dealing in claims in a small way, btCong. Globe, 24th Cong., 2d sess., pp. 67, 112, 142, 145, 153, 167, 216. the government surveyors, and the registers and receivers of the land offices who were dependent on fees and contracts, were continually urging that larger appropriations be made and that the General Land Office hasten the award of surveying contracts. Because of these pressures surveys were made far in advance of actual needs. For example, in Michigan Territory 11,192,213 acres had been surveyed and all had been proclaimed for sale by 1833 but only 2,150,471 acres had been sold; 25,570,000 acres had been surveyed by 1834, but only 5,927,452 acres sold. |