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Show 822 HISTORY OF PUBLIC LAND LAW DEVELOPMENT land, proportions, available at graduated prices, sold, 196 Act 1857, 193 Land sales, acreage surveyed, proclaimed for sale, and sold, 165 amounts due and arrearages, 1803-1812, 134 average price in Northwest Territory, 1802-1806, 133 canal grants, Illinois-Michigan, 351 for cash, 145-176 largest outside South, 1883-1888, 450 Chickasaw Trust, 1836-1850, 186 coal, 724-725 and collections in Northwest Territory, 1801-1812, 132 and collections, 1813-1819, 136 credit, 121-143 and entries, 1863-1870, 442 Illinois, 1814-1834, 265 income, 1851-1861, 210 John Grigg, 1837-1851, 179 Kansas, ownerships compared, 442 leading states, 1830-1840, 166 and military warrant entries, 277 mineral, 706-708 railroads. See Grants, railroad, sale for revenue, 47, 61-63, 68, 178-180, 210-211, 437- 438 1880-1889, 449 Land sales, state, 396 Kansas, 398 Land settlement legislation Land Ordinance of 1785, 59-74 Northwest Ordinance of 1787, 72-73, 285 Act 1830 (Revolutionary War scrip), 257 Armed Occupation Act, 388 Bounty Land Act 1847, 271-273 Donation Act (Oregon) 1850, 388-389 Bounty Land Act of 1850, 273-275 Act of Aug. 31, 1852, 257 Organic Act 1853 (land donation in Washington), 389 Homestead Act 1862, 245, 393-399 land limitations, 396-397 operation or use of in settling, 403-413 abuses, 470 Southern Homestead Act, 1866-1876, 413-414 Timber Culture Act 1873, 399-401 Desert Land Act 1877, 401, 638-643 Act March 3, 1879, 439-440 Land sold and preempted 1830-1838, 230 Land speculation, 142-143 agricultural college scrip, 335-336 land holdings, largest acquired, 439 cotton production, 138-139, 150-151 discouraged locally, 149-150 by homesteaders, 211, 415-417 and Land Ordinance of 1785, 68-71 pet banks, 171-173 1830's, 166-169 1847-1861, 196-204, 212-215 1862-1880, 436-443 1883, 478-482 on reclamation projects, 661-663, 671-672, 681, 683-685 timber industry, 448-451 purchases, 5,000 acres and more, South, 1880- 1890, 448 values of, 212-215 Land speculators' organizations, 150-152, 268 outlawed by law of 1830, 153 Land, titles, conflicts, 203-207 Land, unsold and unappropriated 1867, 398 unreserved and unappropriated, 1905, 502 unreserved and unappropriated, June 30, 1932, 608 Land & Water Conservation Act, 605 Land and Water Conservation Fund, 606 Leasing public lands, 497-498, 501, 513-515, 523. See also Mineral leasing Kent Bill hearings, 513-515 Public Land Commission (1903), 489 Legislation See legislation under Claims, private Coal mining Education Federal-State revenue sharing Forestry Land reform Land sales Land settlement Mineral Petroleum Preemption Railroad Rangeland Reclamation Livestock associations, 618-619, 622-629 American National Livestock Association, 626 National Wool Growers, 625-626 Locke, John, 36 Los Prietos y Najalayegua Case, 588-590 Louisiana, admission to Union, 291-292 |