Title |
History of public land law development |
Creator |
Gates, Paul Wallace, 1901-; United States; Public Land Law Review Commission |
Subject |
Public lands; History -- Sources |
Spatial Coverage |
United States |
OCR Text |
Show This volume, setting forth the history of public land law development, is presented to the interested public as a foundation stone for the entire study program of the Public Land Law Review Commission. (Originally published: Washington, D.C. : by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968) |
Publisher |
Washington, D.C. : Wm. W. Gaunt & Sons |
Contributors |
Swenson, Robert W. |
Date |
1987 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Digitization Specifications |
Pages were scanned at 400 ppi on Fujitsu fi-5650C sheetfed scanner as 8-bit grayscale or 24-bit RGB uncompressed TIFF images. For ContentDM access the images were resampled to 750 pixels wide and 120 dpi and saved as JPEG (level 8) in PhotoShop CS with Unsharp Mask of 100/.3. Foldout pages larger than 11" x 14" were captured using a BetterLight Super 8K-2 digital camera back on a 4x5 view camera (100mm Schneider APO lens). Oversize images were resampled to 1500 pixels wide. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) by ABBYY FineReader 7.0 with manual review. |
Resource Identifier |
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/wwdl-doc&CISOPTR=5226 |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
Western Waters Digital Library |
Rights Management |
Digital Image Copyright 2005, University of Utah. All Rights Reserved. |
Contributing Institution |
Georgetown University Law Library 111 G Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 |
Source Physical Dimensions |
xv, 828 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. |
Scanning Technician |
Backstage Library Works - 1180 S. 800 E. Orem, UT 84097. |
Call Number |
KF5605 .G3 1987r |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6jh3khj |
Setname |
wwdl_documents |
ID |
1135921 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jh3khj |
Title |
page 250 |
OCR Text |
Show 250 HISTORY OF PUBLIC LAND LAW DEVELOPMENT MILITARY RESERVES. 1778-1316 WITH DATES OF CREATION OH I O_ JfflmFACEF,,EC.AT..:s •-*:«».'•» VIRGINIA NORTH CAROL, NA Reproduced by permission of the Carnegie Institution of Washington from Charles O. Paullin, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (Washington, 1932). veterans to sell their rights to speculators for a trifle.2 2 Roy H. Akagi, The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies (Philadelphia, 1924), pp. 192ff. Massachusetts again resorted to promising land bounties in the Revolution. Modest grants of 100 to 160 acres were offered to be located in Maine, then a province of the Bay State. In Virginia military land bounties were first promised by Governor Robert Din-widdie's Proclamation of February 19, 1754. Two hundred thousand acres free of quit-rents for 15 years were to be granted to soldiers who enlisted for the protection of the frontier. The land was to be laid off on or near the Ohio River and was to be distributed |
Format |
application/pdf |
Resource Identifier |
320268-UUM-HPL-c11_page 250.jpg |
Source |
Original book: History of public land law development / written for the Public Land Law Review Commission by Paul W. Gates, with a chapter by Robert W. Swenson |
Setname |
wwdl_documents |
ID |
1135342 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jh3khj/1135342 |