The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1860, Page 2

Z NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. — ey i forth 4 propriatiog made. | mabing total Ivcations, tm satis Mabie for the lends sold under the graat (which Netts pt At ral pectin theme or 6 ao oa Ay — ney copimencod as A as bye of — rata SSaty ae cone feiteo) ute emomntes w Tom aa ~ ee e : 7 ’ ‘second parallel ur aar' Biate, however, on the booxs o! 4) Shu 08 @P THE ARBA OF THE SBVERAL 7 «TFS rate being Lda ly omen po | An pg me. Mcmeddergy ocd pi tevrmber 20, 1860, of 9,219,060 00 — bus been credited, by offsets on 8 ———— +>) s®RRITORIES OF THB UNITED STATES. 4 vbort ove handred miles east in | mued by the commission which bas been appointed by see. pod ge ‘june 30, ons ‘the © Per up to January 1, Misieipe! ender ‘ Square Miles. a ine | e Roos’, Mountains, and garden ferme ee President, ender he o60 08 Canara, seneoeel, 20m, Frye b mn say wpe 1860, 1 WO BUM Of... 6 ceeereecreererenere o officers, to the Gulf of ~~ ed iderable ay, , eoren eastern boun: " wap a 8 vi0 2.0 | ‘fuming evmater for tho | Cotioruia, separating 1 from tbe Territones of the | 108 a0 AND. oo, 1,614, 708.08 Leasing balance, tben, stl) due the United er 492 000 egseis ie | Ce iil September 90, 1860.........+ 368,061 97 —Propored’ to be’ credited by like offsets from tae following nyt ule the Inoten 11 Eleven Depoty Surves ors, uncer difieremt contrasts, | Tw! oe the five quarters under aeat,rve eg | Bt» BBE the account te ly closes pede beg A po s0 doo | SOURSY De XU gnIFbEd, the wirhom have been in the field, west of the Cascade Mountains, | 0D) io « os ee 081, eng poe, AT Laved ie = Se tan aie d cieeht rales by ering aiing fr | cad eeenaiog om Weigand of, Cowan ce | need aere bans bee Sa aX ymin, ring he was ft Revue acing | yaa enum he Be ogres, at of , of tiie to Purves laude, to much de * eee a'by thote porruing ‘agricultural avovations, aat who | bouodery, east and west of the Willamette meridian. Sel oe eee Sr er anes 0 tens of territory, promised age eneues Do the | sippi ity) rm ye sof Miswouri, imelusive, tbe Wiis m4 r Snes ait ays be i kot ete tose eae egg +3 eeaaalened to quarter which fers, soa ber Gusto Novy.” On the $4 Jaa 1781, Frosty, of 1080; and suelans cuttiemante, Stosens fue \- m oni POAvOB I nm mar) min 'o| por’ ol A . 30°460480 | Commentticn eis © | huriog tbe lat year 2 G92 miles of Useal measure have | ,‘X0'Fed September 20, 1860: 960,810.00 ‘oresion to the Unit Perd i 88 45u,500 1,900'000 | oman, S7;20 ous | Meera 6, being tbe boundary between Kantasand | beep ron. embracing 529,676 69-100 acres. e been extended coring the inst year to The Seld work now uncer contract is mainly «ast of the the Rocky Mountains. aorde facilities for | Cascades, nevey ing of any por.Jous of this rurveying ‘istrict, | By vhe establishment of the standard lines over the HI it iy 39, sd 00 one the title to ihe Indian land je extipguish: | valicy# north end ewss of Columbia river, the particular 16 .687,640 Of tho actna! rottlers dispersed throughout | Iccsiities of the plateau of +pckape, and the littio valleys pga nt of the Territoriea of Kansasand Nebraake, | of #roke, Yakema, Kiickatas aud Spckane sivers may 470,640 580 patietod reached by the Ji -veys from either of 20 et referred to, governing the public sur benever tbe wants of and Ne had beca established Ip ricaltural or otber pur ‘The Cor gre 7 or the dieta 204 miles weet from the | po D the geveral description of the country of 8 ber, 1788, ‘the orasion ri Tiver, on the 40:b degree north latitede to Be 'ulde meridia, aod tho staD- mith terelofore Pt RS 3,400,000,000 | Pathe aicreseid resolution of ad jon point of the 20 guide, meridisn, west, | card parailel, does not appear equal to the lands already Pept, 00, 1860, fe eyed up 7 ta'p modifications not affecting the raile! ‘This line 1 Rotovly toe standard } ev veyed wert of the Cercades, In polntof roll and timber, nD pt. BOB, Bh. eos oe ee ons 441,067,926 | In ibis state of the caro, none bul frm whieh eurveys in Nebraska start, acd io Kansae | yet there are particular regions ja tho valleys of ny ng eg bas been Gontipental line service could’be count, Cok being reported as surveyed and marked onthe | the pumerons tributaries of the Columbia river, where ei 4 s fg up to in Keatucky, up to latitude aforesaio, it will serve as the Hine of demarzution | tileme nia are thoreas it g.and requires ae cunsinaies of po oat ~t .-theag imoluding comaiee | Sees vib bese emitted betwe r parat 310 | Jance for their eco mmodation. Barve even es vases ¥ an ee ee er ee ee ee: | A eee ae spatehed to the valleys of Saake, Tonchet, 1 whee quantity diepored of " under her own With the view to acquiring secvrate information ar to | Welle Walla and Klichatats rivers, a or 2 30 1860, ie 160,688,048 for the cbarscter of the lanes, togetber with the politics! MAW MBXI00, " ‘4 —— ims, gran, 4 excinéed after the year 1792, Con; corsicerations reqniring tanginie boundary. reparating The surveys in this Territory have been extended dur u ne OBB, 243,455 064 May, 1830, sppropriated 310,000 acres se from Nebrseka, the extension of the var line | \rc the past year over couiirmied private titles. equal to | Maki & on ee —————_ 904,068,713 | of tbe outstanding and unratisiied warrants issued by crdered by you, and ascomplisbed Curing the | 450 479 acres, and podii> lands for an area of 826.479 acres, | ! the public domein di v1 {2 Tor Rovelutionary ‘services. wow Inet scar to the extent cf 246 milee and 29 4 100 chains, | *qual ip al! to 2 900 lineal milee; apd contracts have beep of Le 30, 1860, by rales, ‘on the 18th of July, 1832, granted 800,000 acres. ‘Tote! land States... ... 974 449 the lerminnt ng point being cp the summit of the Rocky | made tor the survey of the confirmed claims, embracing grata, private claims, Xo... Again for the satisfaction of these claims, oa the $1 of Dietrei oF Colom bia 00 Movntaine designates by a towering granive rock, present- | the town of Las Vegas, Pinos, of Galienas Grant; town of ‘The tots! area of uneold aud un- March, 1833 there were appropriated 200,000 acres, and FRRKITORIES BMBRACING Pg ap acute top, affording no eligible place for the eres. | Apton Chico, of M claims of E W Faton, Alexander eppre priated, of offered and op the 34 of Marob, 1885, the United Staves made a fur- Kavrur . 283 tion of any corepteuoos artificial monoment thereon, this | Valle, Dopat ano Vigil and Avgb Stevenson, uncflered lands of the vvblic ‘ther appropriation of 650,000 acres. point being 649 miles aud 294100 chains west of the The Surv yor General reports that great anxiety existe domain, op Bept. 30,1868 wes 1,065 911.988 ‘There appropriations being found inadequate, as there ioitiol mennment erected op the Miseourt river. P among ch nts urder she treaty of 1848, at Guadaloups | SWAMP APD OVERFLOWED LaNDS—LOTIMIANA BOLDING UNDER | were remaining outetanding upsatisfied claims, Tre surveyore represent copsiderab.c settlements along | Hidsigo, respecting the survey of such claims az have ul Acts oF 1849 aap 1860, OTUER OtaTRs UNDER ACT OW | on tbe Bist of August, 1863, passed an act providing for rp slope of the Mountains, and on the 10th | ready been confirmed, bat not yet surveyed for want of 1880 the satisfaction of all outstanding Virgtoia military war- September, 1868, report base ine as completed | means, and recommends that a board be establ shed sim!- | During the last year there have been a | rapte, or parts of warrants and justiy issued, or 44,892 805 | from initial powt, on the weat or right bank of Missouri | Jar to that organ'zed in Calif rnia, for tho acjostment of | tubmitted for ay jal nineteen liste, containing 686 | allowed prior to the Ist day of » 1862, after which - 1 point of Intersection wita the east boundary | ruch titles, reporting that on his docket there are more | pescs, of which transcripts bave been neut to the Go- | time, the laws of Virginia, no laine for military ser- $23 867,280 'd bourdary line being on the summit of the | than oxe thousand claims to be examined and passed upon. | V¢7pore of the States and local land officers; and in tho | vices could be allowed. ‘ 1 926 636 800 y Mountains,” that, ‘following tte weanderings, the UP to this t'mo there have been surveyed twenty oon- | me period thirty-foor patents for swamp lands have | The interdict which wae beld to exist in the act of Sist Yo which sided water eurface, Iaker, rivers, A>, we | entire length of the line’ between the abore point, a8 Ia firmed private claims under Mexican grants, and the ap- | been granted, containing 838 pages, and covering 860 | of Avgost, 1862, egainst the commutation into sorip ‘ace of over three and @ quarter miliious of | cowa by mearurement te 649 miles and 29 4 100 chain: propriation of $10,000 by act of Congress, approved sune | folio pages of record. warrants issced after 1st of March, 1862, on claime ro miles. moki-g 10 cegroee, 21 minutes 16 seconds of longitnd , 1860, bas been manly directed to the survey of Pu- Since the commencement of operations under these | lowea prior to that date, was relieved by mime ‘aggregate area of the lend States and Tyrritortes is | 65 61 C00 mike, being a degree of longitude on the 40th | eblar, and other confirmed tities by the acts of Congress, | grants there bave been sclocted in the States of Ohio, | of June, 1860, and the wpwarce of 1 460 000 060 801 Parailel of latitade, The initial point on the Missouri | approved December 22, 1868, and June 21, 1869 I toe werk of surveying extearion in the land States | river, being 95 degrces 16 minutes, 43 som nds added to ‘The policy adopted renpecting the survey of claims srattered over xtent of country, requires the ‘Ww Territories 1,287,237 Wow) Iand sarfwce... 3,010 370 rt ! i E i hh étani i 8: H & A 4 i i HI Ef g i Llinois, Missouri, Alabama, Mississio!, lows, igen, Arkaptas, Florida and Wisoovsia | Daring the last year there hes been iseved V! 1 ¢ H ! orriturie cxmibit, the | 10 degrees, 21 mipetes 16 reconds makss for the ciost segregate -ores 67,187,660 99-100 | military ecrip, under said act of 1862, for 60,772 po Rage rags ‘and cotad. | point’ on the Ulead. Th ove described 106 degrees, | Surveyor Gener 2 survey such pueblos”? and an- | Of this quantity the ‘ap cleding 19 250 sores relieved id 1860, with As roply ad the surveys are Babine enonricg mouuments, require tho bighest profes- | 36 minuter £9 second st of Greenwich.” djvided cor firmed claims as pow fail within exising pab proved to the States, 44 237 971 80-100 | seven pieces of United States jutionary Bounty Laod ‘passed baeod in view of this act and here Slovai vii}, Decauee open these lines are cloned aud per ‘The Survey or Geners! bas entered into contracts for thi lic surveys, tben to survey the claims nearest the lines | 4nd of which there ha tcrip, under act of acres. for finally claims, this office is prepared to ts- Poiuaicc ihe to@uth'y lines, the whole framework cf the | prevent fecal year to the extent of tho appropristion-- | of the public surveys, and to connect them,\f withinsix | to the The whole amount military claims, | sue patents as required by law By stein $20,060 —the field operations in Kansas be.ng on bota | miler—the finrl closing of the limes of the public sar. | tho details of which are shown in pa under paid acte of 1853 and 1800, since the beginning of | Satisfactory progress is making in the settlement of do- Principal aod gate meridians have been rou fides of Araneae river in the soutbern part of the Terri. | veys thereon to be made after the body of the public sur- Under the act of 12th March, 1860, extending operations. to September last, s 667,426 acres pation claims ‘p and Washington Territory, under sabtian. extent of 7,089 wiles; base likes to the joining the Oasgo reservation in Nebraska, east of | veye shsil advance around them, Provisions of the act of September 23, 1860, to the | There are now on the flee of this office Virginia military act of the 27th ber, 1860, and Spe ementate- extent of 4619 milce—makwg an eggregate of 11,858 | and about twenty five mites from Fort Kear ‘ano in UTAH. Ptatce of Minnesota and Oregon, ‘Warrente to be acted upon, calilog for 207,643 acres, and a early settlers prior to the survey of the country, ig the region cart of tbe Pawnee regerve in the valley of Operations 'n thi district have” been confined to the | taken hedensgage' to the commencement of the work | frcm the mest reliable data at hand, as to civims here- | were allowed by law to locate their claims in such forms The other tines of the pubite survey®, townabi> and | the Lorp fork of the Platte river. me exam'pation of rurveye executed prior to 1858, under the | of selection. 'y consist in submitting to the | afer to he presented. embracing warrants located in Kea- be gebdisiaional, from the commencement of operatio ‘Tho extension of the public surveys in Kansas for the | vperinterderce of the late Surveyor Gexcral, ageinet | executives of those States one or the other of | tucky—<io, lost by conflict, duplicates issued om fhe prevent period bave been extended over 689 169 m: by th . | wich allegations of fraud bad been preferred. The float | two propositi ms, to wit—tbe adoption of the field notes of lors of , the ten per centom of unsatis- al to 441 067 916 acres result bas not yet reached here, The whole surveys ex: | of the surveys, or the designation of the lands from por- Tea warrants, under the act of March 3, 1835, It ia esti- ike cmreess have been completed in Odio, lodiana, I! sented since the organization of the Territory, cover | spa! ipepection by duly constitu:ed ageate. No commu- | mated that they wil! embrace 127,000 acres. Rnols, Alabama, Mirsesip.i, Michigan, Arkacsss aad fed, Ie view of tne great extent of surveyed lands | 2 190,100 acres, of which plats bad been returned here | nication ac epting either bas yet been received. REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND Wk OF 1812 CLADES AGAINeT THE Jews, and nearly 80 in Meeourl, Louisiana Fiortts, \jeot to preemption and open toecntry at pri. | for 2190000 acre! 9 «residue, 319.900 acres, ‘The authorities of al! the 8 ates upon which the bene- UNITED #TATES. an immense record—bas Lyon mt ‘eet bamed, the “evergiades’? tu tue bed been or by Charles Mogo, un Dts of ibe sets of 1849 and 1850 are conferred have been ‘The pericd for the tseue and jocation of warrants for 5 with thie decision aa wCONAIN, der conotract date cf March 6, 1857, with the potifcd of the limtt«tion made by the act of 1860, for | Revolutiovary servicer, under the actof S-prember 16, been returned as tbe basis of patents, te { the number of miles aud acres surveyed In the country lyiog in Marathon and Oconto counties | Jate Surveyor General, but owlpg to the Mormon | making the remaining selections. Bince the last sanual | 1776, avd for services in the war of 1812, under the act of Portland and other parties . uring the year ending 4epteraber 80, | eest of W sc pein river, there bave been surveyed towa- | dificnities ip that year, and the are of the late | report the Brate of Ca ifernis, through ber it, has pre- | May 6, 1612, expired on the Qéth June, 1558, the limita- British titles in Washington Territory by in 8a Secompanving statement. | sbip exterlore equal ‘to 318 miles, aod subdivisions | Surveyor General from Utah, they bave not been ex- | sebted the State’s claim under the law, no dedaite action | tion fixed in the act of F<bruary 8, 1864 As many such eee bar been ocextensive with the fonus appropriat. | amovntiog to 1,354 mites Ia tho region near the sources | amined and parsed upon, In consideratkn of the large | previous to that time baviog been taxen by the State au- | warrapte, however, bad been located a’ter the period of Britain, have not jnees public iada, confirmed private claime, | of 8t. Cro x, Burnt Wood and Bad rivers, tn La Polat | arta of the surveyed lode in Utab, the abscnoo of pro. | tboritis. © mplete instructions deta‘ling the principles | })inttation, Congress, on tbe 23d June, 1860, passed an act aeding the pees r rice betveon States and | county, £02’ miles of townebip and subdivision lines havo | virions of law granting pre emptions, aod of the fact that | {o be observed In eolecting aave been addressed to the | Irgalizing ‘such locations, and granting three years time . the third of Ferriiorke. Dart at period there have been returned | been ¢stabiigbed there ts no land district yet authorized there, no addi- | United States Surveyor avveral at San Francisco The | from the date of the jaw within which to locate the out- wm imitation of thetr surveys (qual to 86388 lincal miles; or, an area of The Surveyor General has co rtracted for the survey of | tional surveys are Low recommended by this office. State of Alabsma bas also poiided this cffloe of the me- | standing warrants, without, however, conferring authori- impediment to tha s fhe existing machinery i# divided | fourteen towisbips cast of Wisconsin river, in she viciv! ‘Tbe Surveyor General of Utah, on the 26th of Apri! | thed *) ther class. rurvey ‘eaid company we og departments; \t8 personnel conaist | ty of Beanlieux Repids, sna west of the ‘ine sepsrating | last. reported that unauthorized surveys bad been mace 4 Warrants for tie wer of 1812 to the amount of 11,040 aol for that ¢! wee @4, doring the iast year, of eleven surveyors general, | Qoonto from Marathon county—this portion demanding | '» Carton river valley on the oastern slope of Sierra Ne | subject. acres have beep patented during the past yoar. tw to proceed according'y,and the Lait five emoloy es, one nuvdred deputy surveyors, Lay- | priority in survey on account of the evidence of valuable | vada, by county surveyors. Inatructions were, there The recent act of 12th March Iaxt declares the VIRGIMA MILITARY DIFTRICTS— OHIO. vered heir part under for Ing four Qndrod sreintaats, in the capacities 0” compass | Limber, with soll guttable for settlement. upon, promptly despatched to bim by this office, which | that ‘any lands waich the government of tx Uni Patents baye been issued during the past year for lends. men, chainmen, flagmer, axemon and teamsters Contracts, also, have been made for the extention of | be bae carried ont, to apprise al) concerned of the illegal. | States may have reserved, soid or disposed of (in pursn- | 1,578 13 300 acres in this district. Puget Sound Agricult ar- The surveying arcbives of Oni, Indiana, Michigan, | townanip survey, on the region between Lake Flambeau | ty cf any such surveys by unauthorized surveyors, and | spce of any law heretofore epacted) prior to the oontiyme- | The ree! of vacant lan¢s therein, Bay Company, under the Alabama sid Mistisaipp! bave long #in0e been delivered | and Wiscousin river, extend og north to the bouaary of | tbe penaity pretcribed for violation of the lew in this | tien cf thie to be made,” shail be excinded from the ope- | c#timated at 40,000 acres, was ceded to the United States is office has submitted tte ver W thote Sistes purtvant to law. The archives for | Michigan. About tix townsbips, wel’ timpered?at the | respect, and thet surveys of lands tn the Territory could | ration of the act of September 28, 1850. Dy Virginia December 9, i862, Consisting of small irregu =) bot will defer definite Diinotfe sid Ai koatsas, where the surveys are completed, | bead of the Wreeonsin and Brale rivers and Las-Vaux de | opiy be made by the authority of the United States. The communications addressed to the an‘horities | ler fractional picors. ection in the premises until f1 isatracted by the may be transferred lo the State authoritice *booever the | pert, wil! be subdivided. Contracts bave also been made He bas already given notice to persons claiming mineral | of tbe several States, avd to the local Mand offlcers, em- If Congress should not deem Je rept to donate these of the Interior. Legislatures of there States suall haye parsed acts of ac- | for ihe sur division of six townsbips—three on Bad river, | landr, coal and Jead, urder color of Territorial legis. this privolple, and bold Japon to the Biate for educational or other purposes, The aot of 92d June, 1800, for the adjastment of orptarce, er req of Congress of the 12th | emptying into Lako Superior, south of Madeline island, | letion, that spy sucb claims are Siiegal aod invalid, the grant conumpltes the fnundation of ex. | beretofore reoommended, it ie suggested thet they be | Claims in Florida, Louisiana and Missouri, opons the way gepvary. 1840, and 2at mary, 1 In the case | anc the rembinder adjoining the western boundary of | being in derogation of the is of the government un egions of country by such natural arterics a8 the | made subject to location by the owners of Virgiata mili. | for corfirmation or of @ large class of claims. @ Missouri, Loulsiana, orida and lows, the | Wie ip, nes St. Louie river. der the conetitotion and laws of the Uaited States. Biee-rsippt, the lands evidently intended to bS granted | tory warrants who mey F Buch location to scrip. By the terms of this act the registers and recetvers of ferveyg machinery | ia progress of ‘being | Iu this ‘part of Wisconsia there remains only cloven | The Surveyor General and three olerks, daring the last | ure tbese which by reason of their swampy charactor and | —at.eation of Congress is again invited to the condition | the several land districts in Fiorida and Louisiana, ere Mouse vp—ite. iransior in like manner {8 | townahipsto be subdivided to complote tbe surveys in | year, have been occupied in the examioation of the ar | lisbiliy to overtiow are worthless in their netaral condi- | of such holders of legal entries, made in the Virginia | sppolntcd commissioners for their respective ed eben the Legislatures of thore States soal! have | that part of tbe State, including those falling withia the | chives of th retofore made, whish, during the | tiov, ard whereon orope cannot be raised with wt recla | Militery district im Obio, prior to January 1, as | and the Recorder of Land Titles at 8t Louis, for the State pasred the prerequistic acts of aoceptance. | reservation for the La Pointe and other Ixdiune, under | Mormon troubles i Fait Lake City, bad beeu scatiered | matow by levee and dratvs. An overfiow or tnundatton | have not had their claims surveyed and carried {oto | of Miseuri, to hear and decide, under tnstractions from The fregmeutary work wich may remain in aay of | the record ¢lavre of the senond article of the treaty | srd held in posscesion by tundry persons. That officer | Jrom casual cause, merely temporary in ite effects, does | patent, becauro tho actfof Marob 8, 1855, not withstand: this cillce, all matter relating to private claims yet hone States after the Surveying Depar sclosed | of the 30th Septomber, 1854, with the Chippewas | bae collected nearly a'l the papers, and after reorganizing | Dot bring the Jade within the law, add cannot be raid, the entry was legally made, zt terdicts the ixsce confirmed, resting upon written title in those States, wWhbip their limite, such as surveye of private lw | of Lake Superior, situated west of the mouth of | toe cflice, proceeded to the on jon of travecripts o’ | any proper sense, to rcnier them “ unt for cultivation. 1a if Dot surveyed prior 8, 1857; and benoe | Téport their decisions thereon for final action by Mlends or interest ial part of the public land, the Montreat river, end the valley of the Bad | the surv bas been eng in the tospection of | The jaw coptcmplates such long continned overflow or eceasity of remedial legislation to give compleve | Congress This law suthorizes the reception of epy time hereafter be eacowted through the tr . The office work the surveying district | the cur jn the fleid, ana in reconnoissan xs le and prevent | eficacy to such entries. claims ‘‘in virtue of t, » Order of tay of the General Laud Oitloe, in virtue of the po 5 been deepaiched with comniendadle activity. through rome portions of the Territory, with the view to tpg of the seme witbout artificial meave, by Nor hag the goverment been ip any way unmtndfal of | eurvey, permission to , oF other written evidence of ferred wpon the Commissioners by the actsoi Congress | wows escertain ing the character of land moet eligibie for eur xe., Such as are found on the Missies!pp! river. the rervices rendered by her citizens in tho war with | title, emanating from apy forviga al bares fer that purpore. | e have been run in the rorthweetern portion of this = it bodies of land covered by shallow lakes, or | Mexico, and in tho Indian SS ea Gate prior to the ceesion to the United States of - USROTRE g tho part year, 004 miles of sabdivistonal eve immenee fields of the prbdiic surveys arc marked ich may Become dry by evaporation or 9 appreciation in the enactments of 1847, 1800, 1952 and | tory out of which said States were formed, or during the ie tbe object te yiew of an early cloeirg of his ing bo coroplete the whole State but two town. | bd» regelar'ty, eimplic'ty and beauty. The travelior passing cause, do Bot come within the meaning of this | 1556. :eviod when auy gach goverment elaimed s: or Sdice—the Sorveyor General has been instructed to ai ‘With some email telands in mavige- | from the Atlantic Staten westward will 00% fail toobeerve | act The oggregate number cf warrants issued under the | bad actual posseesion of the cistrict or territory ia ‘Weot bis ferce with diligence and energy vo ine eompiovw also isolated tracts which were oo- | the irregu'ar fgores of the rural lapde ho itaves, ip oontrast of by tho general | first three laws to the 30th September jast is.. 989,177 | the lends #0 Claimed are situsted ” In other words, it jon \n triplicate cf ali fh or en former Purveys were executed. | with those met with when he touches the eastern live of to the date of selection, cagsot be « sage + -Reres..27,045,490 | Coptemplates, im meritorious cases, the confirmation of F wlvuale of lend, wos yet reduced to ph ‘The trex scription of the land arobives for Iowa, it ls pro- Wevtcrn or land fates, where the rectangular or 8 they are excluded by aireet opera- iddated, wi claims which originated frem the government de facto ae ‘Allotments of the school lands under the | pored to press forward to the fill extent of mesns at com: Wo land syetem prevails so efisctively that the toast awewp grant. for the re- of 1812, 1824 anc 1831, Drouht water | mand, in erdor to be able to travafer those archives to the may proned to the identification of any par RAILROADS. eree of lati- led questions of contrmed loca | Br uthor ities befor 0 cloae of the evening flacal year, suboivirion tp # given locality with as mush cer- Ry ects of Congres of 1866 and 1857, grants are made between the 1 platted, with any other casoe | reuksTOnY OF MINNEAOTA (KNOWN AN HacoTall), weer op | talLiy as be could ideutity the number of a builting ta a | to eight Btates to ald in tne construction of forty-dve rail- ig the period { INNBSOTA AND 1OWA Dicck Of spy of our capital citien. roade Pat elapeed from the cession of Louisiana by the French vepublis, in 18¢3, to the time that region of urve) Barc all required to be | puperinter dence of the Surveyor General of Wisconsin and 4 former appropriations for | bien established, apd mape of thetr final locations filed, taken possereien of by the United States sathorities par we next—the Hold work, | lowa, whose office is at Dabuqae. The fifth priocipal of key long the coasts of Florida | showirg ap sggregate length of 6.862 miler. Tho grant uont to the Presideat’s proviamation of October, 1810. ines of route of thirty three of these roads have soreiawa The turvoys tn this Territory haveadvanced, under the AY OF THE REVS AND ISLAST Tee | H H g { 5 5 § y be regarded as nearly | meridian which controls the survoya to Arkausas, Mic. | sod California, it became requimite to have the keys and | (cr to of the roads—one in Alabama ani one in Louisi- epiing the New Orleans towaship, for | rourt, lows, aod the State of Mionesota, governs also the 4 and consections made with the Inad [| ars—tes been rej-oted For the remaining ten roade—in We cterior relations ef private titles, | extension of she lines of the public surveys in this Terri. | marks cn the main shores The weval legal raies ia the | 4lademe Florida and Mirsiesippi—no returns designaticg aad swamp, the Surveyor General bas recommeed’ | tcry. Sinco the Jatt annual report the returns of sarveys | retpective survey ivg districts were vot aveyuale for the | actual ications bave been receired. 4 an appropriation of $3,000 The item bar hers | in the eountry on both rides of the Big Sioux river, | compertation of the land surveyors, owing tothe expen Tbe sojustments of the rranis for thege thirty-three Sofore beep brought to the atiention of Congress, isde- | west of the Stato of Minrosota, have deca made, | five ontfiie for reaching isina'® and Key# Of limited areas | resem have been pearly completed. , Lisle embracing Siravie, aud ia recommended; yet this particniar service | emeurting to £36 lineal miles of townebip exteriors, | distart from the main land, To meet the provisions of | 8,977 044 nore? bave bern approved, and transcripts for delay the closing of that Survey ing Departteot, sud there bat been subdivided one townsh!p, in which | the law in tbe prem'ses, nie offion therefore avisied itgolf | piebea the Executives of the tater. Liste of tae rems in. jor the Orders Sivox Fella City te eituated, embracing portions of the | of the ald cf the Cosst Survey rerrice, under the manage | ing lan¢s Inuring undor these lawe are la the course of n Prepared proper‘ fiicere to carry Out tbe provisions of this impor- ai? ‘ier the agi approved 2d J 1858, to provide for oder jane, 0 | the location cf private claime tp Wissouri, and for other pu . & number of claims bave beet passed upon, and where the same ould not be properly located, a bas been issued, in eighty Beeauee the work ean bercafter be done up: ib bere of thie fice, whenever authority sball be given by Con- | jard failing within Root River Land District, orgadized in | ment of ite dieitpguisbed BS weristeudeut, and with the | pre;aration, 0 far as returned. with. Abia act contompiates for its execution at tue requisite augmented rates. ine former Territory, now State of Mionerote. The re- | epprobation of the Secretary of the Creasury, instruc Hvch difficulty has been experi¢noed in the adjustment PRY EMPRION,. of claims thereby coufirmed ‘The field work of past years has been pressed with mainder of the tomnebip (101 N. R 49 W ) lying weet of | tics were iemued tp 1848, to tho Superinteudent of that | of (hese grants, owing to the pumerous copfiicie which | In the extension of the genoral pre-emption law of 1941 | the United States, it became speed than (Moe work of the Loulmara sor | Big Sioux river fs not within any organized land distric.. | brarch of the public errvice for the eurvey of the keys | Dave ariver istic interests, preeentivg questions | to the new States and tories @ wact of tiona to all the local land cio ‘veying Department, snd benve & large accumulation of The work fa this Territory consists of township and | on the coast of Fiorida, acd of the islands off the | of jaw end fect, are rccztanUy coming before the depart. | bes arizen 10 some instances the la desk labor exitia, The Surveyor General bat besa in rubdivitional surveys to be made south of the 434 lati. | coast of California. fince that time op to the | meng lor fxam.cation and decision; Often tmvoiving into. | Sling adeeleratory statement withia moat date of settlement, otbers from surveys in the feld— | tbe labors of this department, Ferinter dent of the Coast Surrey bargpast tie Fovera- | acjudication The adjcstmest of the intereste of tbe | statutory provisions in the former being beld by +xsca- | conf med by former acteand for appro | roacs, where they intersect and ovorlep each other, hae | tive copatruction to relate in regard to limitation to | thereof, no ia found, the claimants are entitled to structed to bring up the arrears, looking t the eventanl | tude, weet cf tee Big Sioux, north of the Mieeour! and = 1867 {ho eurveys throng the isetrumwentality of the | 7/1s 10 a large amount, and requiring mach caro ia their transfer of the archives to the State Tae estimaios sud- eset of the Yaneton Reservation, emoracing the valleys mitted have in view the closing of the Surveyiog Dopart- of Big toux, Mirour!, Vermiltion and James rivers. ment but email additional sume Luyond ~ue usia! ment in tbe two Stater—Missoarl and Loaisiasa—dis- | The subddivisional work, not exceeding threo full town. jations fog. tha seryic6 of the Coast Sarvey proper, aud | been very di , for in some instances as many as five | three months from the date of approval of the plat of | "élief. sidg With the cbief of lers there a8 goo as the pubiie — ebipe, is to cover such localities as may fall within claims | from the period Jast mentioned up to the present the gor. reace are found overiapp! sad conflicting with each | survey. That should be made of universal application. Excreste will alk.w, apd compioting transcripts by direct | prewived for iu the seventh article ef the treaty of April | Pry of beve and triaods bas been continued without spe. | other, and with samerses Steer interests," The follow ‘The-set of 1854. extending the act of eat to Kansas | _ Under treatice of 1854 with the Shawnees, Raskask ten ‘feuthority from this office oat of the means avticipated | 19, 1868, with the Yancton tribe of Indians. cial sppropriations, the expenses incurred haylog been | ing is'n exbidit of the States and the quantitice of land | ard Nebraska, sbould be #0 modified that two or more | 80d the Miamis, of 1555 with the Wyendots, and ns 1880 parman; to the estimates prevented, these means to be | — As there existe no land district tm thie Terri ex. | met with the fonds eable for the genera! Coast Sur. | under sald grapte actually approved to each up to this | settlers on the same quarter rection should each be per. | W'th tbt Pacs and Foxes, and in virtue of the act of Bist Speed te moat ccvctoal aanser fo the end contem: | ecpt for that portion Iying east of oer vey service, tee teuree of tee erveye of the teys | Gass m mitied to take the iegal subdivision cn. bracing hie acaai | JUIY, 1864, and with the Btoct bridges of 161 aad 1880, eb of towrrbip 100 torth and racy 0° and ‘elands sinee the coromencement of the work are | Staiecs. Acres, | renidence, and make up bis quantum upon csatigaous | 'Di® citice, since the date of our last report, has FLORIDA. | the See-ree toan ant bg) eatereive, corsh ting of the turvey and tubdivision of ‘ lanes. cope thousand five bundred by hyn Fa m Florida the Ald operations were carried oo along | Stonx Indians, ef July 28, 1861, the necessity for promp: | ihe keys off the Herida coast, from the mouth of the Mi Betilers upon unofered lands, under Jawa, | for each tribe conforming to the peoa: arity of the terme he Atlantic t, east of Indian river, and te She vi. | jeg isistion Is euggesiot for the organization of a land dis- tre allowed to prove up apd pay for their lands at any | of treaty. These , il daly recorded in this office, @mity of Merritt's Island; alo cas! aad wees of the Uxeo- | triet for the present Territory of Minnesota. time prior to the day of padlic sale of the body of lands, | bave been trazemitted to the office of Indian Affairs for @ho-bee lake, and in the neighborhood of Carlosahatch STATE OF MINNBSOT)—SEPARATE SURVEYING DIETRICT weld their claims. | Celivery to tbe rightful owners. Fiver, The estimates submitted are for subdivisiona! | The wdcle area surveyed within the limite of this Stat» }epeat the recommendation that euch rettlore ASITISMERT OF ACCOUNTS—TRE REGULATIONS ‘Work of crratity arable Iaode—abouy twenty towaships— _ {» 90 989,800 ares, equal to 82.765 equare miles, seven owed two yeurs from the fillng of their declaratory Of the General Land Uilice, which 18 the antiting branch. egPe 6 400,800 acres, situatel worth of Uarlosaraiches | eigbibs cf which are reported to be grad land. Sines tho at the same time making 1% iacumbent | Of the service for all land accounts, require tbe prompt: ‘be monthly and quarterly scoounte of £ re wiver, and west of Okee cho-beo lake In addition to | eetablishment, on the 294 of May, 1967, of the ible sale, by proclamation, all lands that | rendition of ae General morvey of recommends the exten. | General's cfficn at St, Pant, ae the seat of a separate dis Total...... eau as -szaanenennes ah ed within some soccified limit as io moneys and disbursing agente, ence tion 6! Lownsolp lines over @ region of country soath iriot, €,240,772 acres have been surveyed, 905,738 of | for ‘To the foregoing may be added, by estimat to time a'ter the plate of survey bave been approved. 3 teen aha te of Carlosabatebee, in latitude 26 deg. £0 y aud o | whieh were completed ‘the last , Contracts Yet to inare to cortain other States, to protecticn against fraudulent pre emptions, no | ™a!l Ww: after being ‘thal be. ef the Evergiades, on the jad of the existence of ex- | for 276.480 acres, north enat of Oitertall lake, and in the construction of routes traversing, in ope shovld be permitted to effect an entry, until afer aaswer, that: tecetve bodies of land not falling within the @ cast of Bille Hace, bave been made. Plats for 226 town regione Of country yet an the expiration of throe months from the date of fillag his | L nad grect, bot the isformation im our a down whips, with 126 lists cesoriptive of soll, have been sect to | declaratory statement, and until be bas produced satis | moathiy” mnty of ‘prevent the proper « ficers, and tranveripts of field noes aud ro- factory proof of three months con\nved resideax: up a -er'a admitted be- ‘wou! cords for tbat olstriet and General Land Office have been | has been connected by land claimed he repueenes fe sapente San the de , of the Tres fusare pei during the last year, to the extent of 18,641 vey of the ielante c the coast of California hae b © eiop of thie cilioe there are evils which should be cor a bere ony 2 ee : we rorias | PE outed to & considerable extent by the Coan ‘ary, 1863, to Missouri rected. There @ poiiher onst nor respoasidility Incurred | iste over \reawary re ‘The question of the true sonnteny ones lori cor ast appnal report the completion was the aiDoue end janear—otber jand to aid in party appeaiing Bence ap seala, for | Resolver, o ead Georgia is one of jong standing, ald be | of the greater portion of the serves Of the western boun ‘the construction of railroads, equal io the eg. pur pores of and vexation arofrequent. Ib deposit; thai im grants, netted. The Commoners appointed coder | dary of Misnrrota, igus totwoey routhern extremity Eregate to. ‘o sesececcevess @,218,406 | is reeemmer Ghat s i Bo, paneed that the party ap. mediately ly eeovante they acto of Big Stone lake and the northern boundary of lows, on ——--— | pealing spall do so withiaa | See, a8 cnty tase fortewith reperied to the fe the Ir & due south course for the distance of 124 miles, and that seeeecccceecccees «96,189 499 | vpow filng ap sfiidavit stating his purpors ie not de | Treasury. is wever been since finail; | mensuree bad been talon for the testing of the scoaracy . Ume, as ovr adjoxtment of these grants | Iny or vexation of bis opponest, and indicating specially | Wan men gre ee mld ae wees mpg Wat Miicot's mound. cota) ff ii@ establishment im the field. Duriog the past year PROCLAMATION FOR THE SALEE OF PORIC LaNne sdvanced, the sarplos land that had been withdraws hea | 1! ged error of fnct or law. | ly to the Bearetary of tho Iutorior for his ini thet river, was not at the real socroe the rrroaintng portion of the boundary between the iron | Pursoant to executive orders the-e have been pro- | been relosted and restored to market during tbe last yoar ‘bat of the Treasury Department, showing the exact ‘end in [620 the State applied to Congress monuments at the beads of lakes Travers and Mig Stone, | claimed for vale daring ths five qoarters ending Septem | as ‘ollowe— dition of a! secounti ‘pee in bacds, and tbe stepe ‘to ren ana mark the | @iatant 4 wiles, 29 chains and 63 links, bas been complet: | ber 90, 1660, 16,586 361 secre: and dering the past Sates. Acres. taken jn apy cave requiring ficial tatery: tanh ond meaning of tho | ed; returns mace to this office, and, siler testing the ac. | month, vix , under date of 231 Cctober, 1860, im Califor - «1,400 000 Prompt depesite. ‘wething further pA | curacy of tbe work in the Geld, the same has be a ac. | pia, 8,696.87 scree, particulars being shown in seoompa «+ «1,500,000 ‘ublie moneys, Disbursing ‘ine bas mince been | cepted and payment in fol! made. hy log Ptatemente. eeeeereneeeens YY.) Deputies, eed other omployes, end the initial pont of tbe CALIFORNIA. To relieve retticr® who [might be enabdie to prove ap The ‘ past reported restorations embrece the end of the Inet quarter, yastanen: ‘Bit river, wore connected by | Daring the part year 4.386 liveal miles have been sur | before the day of public esie, the Secretary of the Inte im those cases where router end five per ceut necruirg to the several Givewt line as arty as 1425 by the U | Teyed, embrasiug ao area of 865 660 nores. The Tlor deelded, and irrtevetions bave been ecoord ingly dew pet proceeds of the pales of public lands, be: Sash tern re re | Berge survey of cctrue private Caiman, 100k Foch ecticrs who nay have failed to Drove aed ay OP Congress of Sigans ree | "*For ate, bounty and lorations ender | for the tur-ey claims, num | uch ectthrs who may have Drove ay not ef of ” bah ya We sever: The failure of tbe Commissioners Der, resting upon Mexican grante, reserving ae nall mum | before tbe day of public sale, to make arew mprove. way uaeniea te on? wa coe “ Eresane . | from let October, 1889, date (20h Novewber, Garry out the provisions of | tor the turveys and copmections of the lines of the com. | ment, and file a declaration for the same tract ba! 1860), there have becn tranem to their sever! deat! ae tated, Jef the question | Hgvows public lands retitled Gpon, if unsold, and that settlement clatms of thie |, Be lone, for detvery. +. 298,004 patewta @attled, the provisions of the rece! a = Derewith, which ancompanied the Surveyor | cles were pot liable to locaton by warrants without the For India», swamp tracte, private — 19h of April, 1860 | seneral report, exbivive in a Randsome aad distinct | ccnrent of ibe settior, euch belog the proviso tm the | land claims sp, other patcnte, esti the bousdary line bets wanper the Jande, avd ta conncetion therewtth the | bounty lazd jaws in regard to locatk ns. — mated asequal tc...... + enesee Georgia,’ cannot be properly Private claime end I Nose. On the 908h of Juno, 1890. we had on band, Evidence of hts, qual to, Seerminons r prepared for market sod unofiercd, ee Acree | Rauiroaé selestions, equal to ‘until 8; CN OTe 67,094,647 woe | - emma to further legisiation Dureg ‘the fecal year cating 80th Jane, Mak ing an sggregate number. with on rap sae , the quantity retersed for market in the dates mentioned, ¢qual to 238,802 cash patente. ig Surveyor General reports war. se ccesecseeeeee esse 8/50M,800 + Within the rare poriod all returne of land sales from the ‘gigs has progressed during And curing the quarter ending loead \ thee Betrants, cortideates of purcom tee appropriates. The setur Sept, 90, MBO... ccccvececceees RAD OM ‘a reo menimane of thks, ah poreren et bounty. anes ; ——— acta ‘Wey i conignaente, ee ert privcpaly Total returned Curing the Ove quarters. 6.640.471 ted be | bon oritcnly’ sommived, Neoted Ie-segee mecreere, ba FTL LY pt | With the approved townsbin pate, and ta Correctocss Tota! by a4 ond returned for market © paldersticn with the tar) Se Paes river near Fort Kearney, and on the head wa pt ept0,1800..- “1 een ee om Bive river. During we year ending June 90. 1900, be wie p- Led, ceparicens Luirty saree township i thet were pret forsale, baat ati Kanes have pared during ending 31) FOR ADJOINING FAME official leegers for entries, lorations ebions Ernie os 760,981 05 acres. HPL 90, PBGO....cccccecceees TMI To geerd ageinet imposition and fraed in fature, pf te thet wee ot ee plats previously é under this law, the recommendation i@ renewed for irre and trarsmiaeion of patents for such gales as are to brenwng se eeeeees Making ® total procisimed of........ 16 486 $41 the psetage of @ law roqutring every person appty' to | the seme period. a enty —-— ter latd for sctnal settionert and cultivation, tahoe | CPOLOGICAT AND MINK AALOGICSL DIVELOTEMEN ER. Sorta re" wre aor re Ee Rab Krewe set cite Roaceteaetes | wltiiee ewer: Rebeca yaeicins arty. 1, —,7— fered at poblic swe, ¢xolustve of school nasa Register and Reeeiver of the cop } se izitad Sac ei OE ae AOE Rly r or » mating place —-_ | Imre to jnstion entries Leaving now ov hand ready for market... 46,608,470 | Lo 4 | anal actel 4 Maren ine? ‘ ‘thas t-4 The ertimated queotigy which bed been | ‘bad, requiring proof of bone intend waters, whilat it is at hand to cfiered at pd cultivation within one year from such enactment, or | do i1# Fervice in the railway system oposed to connect ject to privale entry at the various tint re or their soreness Gah mene - | the Atlarticand Pacific cities. An may be formed. nintfor the land at $1 25 per sere, and of the valoe ard enouring @baracter aeral eriry eball be cancelled, preemption amd land restored = extensively distributed. tver our oe oy aie. Coverrd to the extent of avout 200,600 tbe gencrie, dectgnation of ‘ private land | when it is rhown = the Upited States bad to doal with an im- | erre of con’, three thick, is to the or fe mmornt cf land but most intricate and deli- | 1,940 sores of forest trees, “Asa, coms ” Cash received for tame... 91,843,689 96 For tbe quarter ending Septem ‘90, 1980 vee 516,416 14 1. 917,796 18 eens ties mark the progress of | Conl, te equivalent to 6 060 tone, and therefore, ——— 3,977,619 8) of tbe continent orve of meebanies) strength in ejuW te the 497 They begin a than 1 €00 men.”” NDR Acro a4 gon wey’ Ga men nivale for becdlabor wields at the tine , eye F AvaTET 6, % app toat vast * war Loree COMRIN, AND ACT OF My rid Prairie ¢o Chien, in Wieronste, eater into 8 foros equal to the manwal etrec@ a of (OF THB RTATE UNTO INE CxiON "| gla Vineensee LS and yot the ors! Gelde of Boeinn’. tre of 291 miler-eo that the towned' Hiner of the sorvey, tp tbe rooher | iand, Reotinad and Wales, the Britian provisone of ‘ew Haakass er, thoes reeling on acelogt, Brviad and | Pyerewien, Nova Scotia, Cape Briton ad New vor dian | « $799,780.00 | _Upéer the opinions date ring the quarter joet ex 862, nod Septembor | sip v Hy O00 200.00 the Sate war held