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Show Appendix B Public Offerings or Proclamations of Sales and Entries of Land Once public land had been surveyed and the plats, survey notes, tract books, and entry volumes and all other necessary forms placed in a land office presided over by a register and a receiver the land was proclaimed for sale by public announcement. Before the sale settlers and representatives of investors or speculators would roam over the land, make their selections and the settlers would establish their claims and register them with the claim club. After the auction was held the remaining unsold lands were classed as "offered" and were open to private entry at $1.25 an acre, or they could be entered with any of the various forms of scrip or military bounty land warrants in any amount desired. There was no legal limit on the amount of land individuals could buy at the auction or at private entry thereafter. Experience Under Public Sale Laws 1822-1894 Year Acreage Offered8 Acreage Sold Entries With Military Land Warrants Scrip Entries 1822 78,723,174 15,615,489 1823 11,414,598 653,319 1824 7,294,186 749,323 1825 3,419,604 893,461 1826 2,880,703 848,082 1827 3,314,816 926,727 1828 3,268,493 965,600 1829 6,148,962 1,244,860 1830 6,750,798 1,929,733 1831 11,005,561 2,777,856 1832 4,205,805 2,462,342 1833 6,614,596 3,856,227 1834 13,056,865 4,658,218 1835 13,767,268 12,564,478 1836 509,034 20,074,870 1837 (to Sept.) 4,805,566 1838 20,984,444 3,414,907 1839 12,170,411 4,976,383 1840 13,531,798 2,236,890 1841 3,303,558 1.164,786 1842 10,925,550 1,129,218 1843 5,124,367 1,605,264 1844 9,245,763 1,754,763 1845 5,557,584 1,845,527 1846 12,535,878 2,263,731 1847 9,138,531 2,521,306 239,880 55,903 802 |
