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Show Index Adams, John Q., canals, 344 Adjustment Act, 680 Adverse possession, law in colonies, 38-39 Act of 1839, 268-269 Advisory boards, grazing, 615 Agricultural College Act, see Morrill Act Agricultural Experiment Stations, 26 Agriculture, U.S. Department of, see dry land farming, Division of Forestry, Forest Service, irrigation studies Agriculture scrip, 22-23, 335-336 land holdings, largest acquired, 439 Alabama, admission to Union, 294 Alaska, purchase, 85 admission to Union, 316 coal laws, 729-730 Albany Evening Journal, on Jackson's land policy, 172-173 Alien ownership, 454, 482-483 Act 1887, 461 American Forestry Association, 566 American Forestry Congress, 565 American Land Co., 171-174 Appropriations, forest protection and forestry, 573 Appropriations for reclamation, 1936-1968, 691 Arid lands, report by Powell, 419-420, 645 Arizona, admission to Union, 314-316 grants, education, 315-316 Arkansas, admission to Union, 296-298 grants, education, roads, and salt springs, 297-298 Federal grants, management, 338 Military tract, Federal, 268-270 Armed Occupation Act, 388 Assignment Act, 739 Atomic Energy Act, 751 Attorney General, 1850 decision, 707 Barnes, Will C, 508 dry farming, 509 grazing homesteads, 521-522 Benton, Thomas Hart, Foote Resolution, 10, 224 Graduation Act, 183-184 military bounties, 273 minerals, 705, 712 Blair, James, 36 Bonanza farms, 197-198 Boulder Dam, 685-686 Bounties, Military, 249-284 Colonial, 249-254 Revolutionary War, 68, 251-257 acreage, State and Continental Congress, 252 War of 1812, 262-263 issued to 1824, 262 Civil War, 281-283 homestead rights, additional, 281-283, 584 Soldiers and Sailors Act, 282 warrant entries v. private land sales, 1847-1862, 277 entries, land, leading states, 1871, 275 warrants issued and entered for land, 1855-1876, 280 problems created, 278-281 land warrants, Act of 1847, 1850, 1852, 1855, July 1, 1906, 276 and prosperity, 277-278 Spanish-American War, 283 Philippine Independence, 283 end of, 283-284 Bounty legislation, Act 1847, 271-273 Act 1850, 273-275 warrant sales debate, 274-275 Act 1852, 275 Act 1855, 275-276 British land controls, 1-3, 34, 47 Brown, Ethan Allen, 232-233 Buchanan, James, 210-211, 393 Burdett, S. S., grazing homesteads, 419 irrigation, 637-638 Southern Homestead Act, 445 timber trespass, 545-546 timberland sales, 545 Bureau of Land Management, 128 grazing lands, expenses and receipts, 1933, 632 income, timber and grazing, 1966, 606 Bureau of Reclamation, 658 815 |