History of public land law development

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826 HISTORY OF PUBLIC LAND LAW DEVELOPMENT Reclamation Act 1902. See Newlands Act Reclamation of arid lands, 635-698 Reclamation dams, electric power. See Public power Reclamation and farm surpluses, 681-683 Reclamation Fund, 655 Act of 1910, 664-665 amounts credited from sales, fees, and commissions, 658 appropriations, reclamation, 691 sources, 1903-1966, 29 Reclamation and Land Settlement Conference, 682 Reclamation lands for veterans, 693-694 Reclamation legislation, Desert Land Act, 638-643 abuses, 640 General Revision Act, 484-485, 642 Carey Act, 648, 650-651 Reclamation Act 1902. See Newlands Act Newlands Act, 28 congressional discussion, 653-656 excess land provision difficulties, 695-6% implementation, 656-658 Act 1910, 664-665 Warren Act, 672 Extension Act, 670-672 Adjustment Act, 680 Act to prevent speculation, 684 Reclamation projects, 658-659, 680-681, 685-686, 688-692, 694-695 aid to settlers of, 668-671, 672-674, 679-680, 686- 688 congressional investigation of. See Cong. Investigating Comm. of 1936 in trouble, 663-664, 665-666 land openings, 693 and western development, 692, 696 tenancy, 678-679 Reclamation Service. See Bureau of Reclamation Reclamation projects and speculation. See Land speculation, on reclamation projects Redwoods, preservation, 554 Registers, land offices, 126-127 Repeal of Timber Culture Act, 560 Reservation of mineral rights in land sales, 740 Revenue sharing, State-Federal. See Federal-State revenue sharing Revolutionary War bounties, 68, 251-257 Revolutionary War scrip, 257-258 Right-of-Way Act, 555 Roads. See Grants, roads Roosevelt, Franklin D. Copeland report, 598 reclamation projects, 684 Roosevelt, Theodore, forest reserves, 575 illegal entry, 487-488, 492, 498-500 mineral resources, 725-729 reclamation projects, 652 Rutledge, R. H., 618 St. Clair, Arthur, 289-291 Sandoz, Marie, Kinkaid Act, 498 Sargent, Charles S., 564, 568 Schulenberg v. Harriman, decision, 458 Schurz, Carl forest protection, 546, 548-549 preservation of redwoods, 554 Scrip, agricultural college, 22-23, 335-336 contribution to land speculation, 438-439 land holdings, largest acquired, 439 forest lieu Mexican War, 271-273 New Madrid, 100 Revolutionary War, 257-258 Soldiers Additional Homestead, 282 surveyor general, 111-112 Supreme Court, 112 valentine, 439 Separation of mineral from surface rights. See Reservation of mineral rights Settlement laws, use and abuse, 463-494 See also Land settlement legislation Settlers, formal organization of. See Claims Associations Shale oil, 759-761 Sioux Reserve, 436-437 Smith, George Otis, 510 Smoot Act, 741-745 Smythe, William E., Desert Land Act, 648-649 Soldiers and Sailors Act, 282 South Carolina, land claims, early, 50 cession of land claims, 52 South Dakota admission to Union, 313 grants, education, 313 Southern Homestead Act, 413-414, 443-447 Sparks, William A. J., 459, 558-559, 568 certificates of deposit, 440 Desert Land Act, 640 fencing, 468, 473 grants, railroad, 472 land reform, 471-477 protection of timberlands, 472-473, 557-558 Swamplands, 334 withdrawals, unused, 458-460 Specie Circular, 174-176, 207