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Indians, Moravian, grant to......

Internal improvements, State selections for, act 1841..

land granted to Territories in aid of......

Iowa, State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, constitutional
convention in, sketch of history of, and legislation for, up to admission into the
Union...

Iron held to be a valuable mineral..

Islands on public domain, survey of...

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255

259

437

324

179

J.

Jacksonville, Cal., organization of the mining district at..
Jefferson College, Mississippi, grant of land for......

317

212

Jefferson, President, report of, taking possession of Louisiana by United States. 101-103
Johnson's, President, opinion of homestead act

347

Joint High Commission, Washington treaty of 1871, and awards thereunder....

7

K.

Kansas, State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, the several con-
stitutional conventions of, sketch of history of legislation for, up to admission
into the Union..............

445

Kaskaskia, Saint Vincent and, reservation for settlers at, in Virginia deed of ces-
sion....

Kentucky, State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, constitu-
tion of, sketch of history of legislation up to admission into the
Union....

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La Fayette, Major-General, grants of lands to, for services rendered the Re-
public

211

Land bounties and land warrants for military and naval services

232

Congressional action thereon....

922

military bounty-land reservations and land districts therefor...
United States military district in Ohio

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Land grants for canals, Congress and administration granting..

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235

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to railroads, date of law, mile limits, and amount patented to June
30, 1880

274

for religious purposes

209

Land grants to States for railroads....

to Territories in aid of internal improvement.

for universities

for wagon roads, Congress and administration granting ...

Land system of United States, forms in land entries, reference to their great
number...

Canada, forms in land entries, small number of.....
United States adopted from that of colonies, and more espe-

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261-267

259

223

260

503

501

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Land in Maryland, proprietary, form of warrants granting same
Land measures in Mexico, table of ....

Land law and system of the colony of Pennsylvania.

Land offices, local or district, names and location since 1800
list of existing....

474

399

468

173

176

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Lands, present actual receipts per acre under settlement laws

25

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Lands acquired by treaty, purchase, and capture from France, Spain, Mexico,
Texas, and Russia, area and cost...

Lands, agricultural, what are, and how disposed of, existing methods..

coal, legislation on, estimate of area of, on public domain..

entries under the coal-land acts..

what are, and how disposed of, existing methods

desert, what are, and how disposed of, existing methods..

Lands graduated and sold under act of 1854, results of act...

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411

292

293

412

415

291

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estimate of character and quantity remaining, with tables..
estimate of value of remaining..

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26, 27

(See Public lands, Public domain.)

unoccupied, condition and legal status of.....

Lands in the Indian Territory, how held by tribes, surveyed, unsurveyed, and

Lands taken under homestead act cost of survey and disposition..
Lead mines at Genevieve, claim for

Dubuque

Levee grants in Louisiana

Lewis and Clarke, grant of land to, and their men, for services as explorers....

expedition....

Location of public domain, former methods of...
Locke, John, constitution for the Carolinas....
London treaty of 1827, and awards thereunder..
Louisiana, Province of, purchase of, 1803, its history

cost of, per acre....

458-462

25

373

374

211

211

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423

Louisiana, State of, population at periods, Territorioal organization, constitu-
tion, and sketch of legislation up to admission into the Union

Maine, colonization of..

grant to Pierre du Gast

Gorges

political history of, to 1820..

sold to Massachusetts....

admitted into the Union 1820

M.

State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, sketch of legisla-

tion up to admission into the Union.....

Maison Rouge grant......

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Maryland, colonization of....

early settlement of, charter of....

sketch of colonial history up to 1776...

adopts the Constitution of the United States

action of legislature on cession of Western lands to United States..
land system in, proprietary form of warrants granting land in.....

Mason, Col. R. B., report of, on placer mines in California

Mason and Dixon's line, history of.......

Massachusetts, colonization of......

political history of, during colonial times until 1776...
grants and charters of

adopts the Constitution of the United States.
cedes claims to Western lands to United States..
Maine sold to.......

State of, cession by, to United States

area of cession

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49

49

49,50

50

61, 62

474

312

49, 50

34

34-36

34-36

36

36

38

70-72

87

Mechanical and agricultural colleges....

grants for.

223

229, 230

Mecklenburg declaration of independence

Meridians and base lines in surveying system....

Metals, precious, States and Territories on public domain bearing.
Mexican grant in California, Corte del Madera del Presidio...
Mexico, cession and purchase from, Gadsden purchase, 1853

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cession from, Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848; war with Mexico.

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laws for colonization, and grants of public lands to immigrants, man-
ner of.

512

mining laws of, references to.

514

Michigan, State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, constitutional
convention, and sketch of legislation up to admission into the Union......
Military district of United States in Ohio

431

232

Virginia in Ohio..............

233

lands of Virginia in Ohio....

Military and naval land bounties, reservations and warrants for..

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grants of lands to, date, mile limits, and acres certified or
patented ....

279

Congress and administration, when granted.............

261

Page.

Minerals in private land claims

Mines on the public domain ...

Military wagon roads, area of grants
Mineral claims, method of surveying...

number located and patents, to June 30, 1880.

Mineral lands of the public domain ....

on the public domain, estimate of area of .
Congressional action as to..................

on Pacific Coast, Congressional action as to.
and mines, executive action as to.......
cash sales of, ordered in base-metal regions
classification of, by deputy surveyors, method of..
coal.....

in charge of the War Department

condition of, prior to 1866...

what are, present classification and disposition....
policy of the United States in relation to
discovery of gold in California..

Mineral reservations in Northwestern Territory

Mineral, valuable, iron held to be a

yield of, since 1848.

287

186

324, 325

307

325

306

311

307

308

187

292

308

221

411

324

309

306

324

409

306

320

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district, present method of organizing a placer or quartz

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laws of Mexico, Spain, Portugal, and New South Wales, Australia..

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Minnesota, State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, constitu-
tional convention, and sketch of history of legislation for, up to admission into
the Union.....

443

Mississippi, State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, constitu-
tional convention, and sketch of history of legislation for, up to admission into
the Union......

424

212

railroad grant to.....

262

Mississippi, grant of land for Jefferson College

Missouri, State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, constitutional
convention, and sketch of legislation, history of, up to admission into the
Union

Montana, Territory of, population at periods, when organized, legislation as to.
Moravian Indians, grant of land in Ohio for, occupancy by..

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acquisition of territory to, by purchase, conquest, and
treaty

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