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White, Francis Harding. Administration of the General land office, 1812-1911. 134 1.
Unpublished thesis in Harvard University library.
Decimal system, survey, 9-10.
Certified copies, furnished, 58- Decisions of Land Office, 67-68.
Desert Land Law, described,
De Witt, Simon, survey, de-
scribed, 10.
District Land Offices, activities
of, described, 94-97, 113-124.
Donaldson, Thomas, report quot-
ed, 28-29.
Donation laws, described, 26–27.
Drafting and map compiling, de-
scribed, 44-45; Division, ac-
tivities of, 88, 105.
Education, Bureau of, coöpera-
tion with Land Office, 62, 76.
Enlarged Homestead Act, de-
scribed, 71.
Entries, described, 173; coal
lands, 173; desert, 174; fraudu-
lent, 173; Indian lands,
173; timber and stone, 174.
Equitable Jurisdiction Board, du-
ties of, described, 24, 84-85.
Eskimos, allotments to, described,
62.
Federal Power Commission, cre-
ated, 34.
Fee patents, described, 62.
Field Service Division, activities
of, described, 89-90, 106-107;
organization, described, 90-92;
special agents, duties of, 91-92.
Field Surveying Service, duties
of, described, 90-91, 107.
Forest Service, coöperation with
Land Office, 77; established,
63-64.
Forests, National, protected, 63;
reserved, 32.
Fragmentary surveys, described,
40-41.
Gallatin, Albert, quoted on land
policy, 14n.
Geological Survey, coöperation
with Land Office, 52-54, 76.
Graduation Act, 26.
Grayson, William, quoted on land
policy, 7.
Hamilton Alexander, plan of, de-
scribed, 11-13.
Harper, Robert Goodloe, quoted
on land policy, 14n.
Harrison, William Henry, land
bill, quoted, 14n.
Homestead Act, 26; enlarged, 71.
Homestead entries, described,
172.
Homestead and Timber and
Stone Division, duties of, de-
scribed, 86, 101-102.
"Homesteaders," rival claims of,
lead to necessity of Land Of-
fice, 2.
Hutchinson, Thomas, surveys,
made by, 8.
Indian Lands Division, duties of,
described, 88, 104-105.
Indian reservations, patented, 61-
62; surveyed, 40.
Jackson, President, quoted, 19-
20; recommends reorganization
of Land Office, 21-22.
Jefferson, Thomas, quoted on land
policy, 7-10.
Judicial procedure of Land Of-
fice, described, 68-70.
Justice, Department of, coöpera-
tion with, 48-49, 77; secret
service, 49.
Kelley system, described, 18n.
Kincaid Act, 70-71.
Land clubs, formed, in Iowa, 19.
Land Grant Division, activities
of, described, 104.
Land records, furnished, 57-58.
Land Service Bulletin, described,
127-28.
Legislative activities of Land Of-
fice, described, 75.
Lincoln, Abraham, quoted, 17, 26,
Military reservations (aban-
doned), surveyed, 39-40.
Mineral claims, surveyed, 40.
Mineral Lands Division, activi-
ties of, described, 27, 89, 105-
106.
Mineral laws, 27.
Mines, Bureau of, coöperation
with Land Office, 76-77.
Monroe, James, endorses rectan-
gular system, 9.
National Conservation Commis-
sion, report quoted, 32-33.
National forests, reserved, 63–64.
New Mexico-Colorado boundary,
surveyed, 41.
New Mexico-Texas boundary,
surveyed, 41.
Notations, tract book, described,
60.
Chio Company, organized, 10.
Oregon lands, registration of de-
scribed, 23.
Overflowed land patents, de-
scribed, 56-58.
Patents, division, activities de-
scribed, 85-86, 100-101; issued,
176; granted, 55-57; swamps
and overflowed lands, 56-58.
Plats, prepared, 172.
Preemption Act, 26.
Private land claims, surveyed, 41.
Public domain, surveys made,
35-38; to be protected, 47-51;
unappropriated and unreserved
provisions concerning, de-
scribed, 169.
Public land reservations, super-
vised, 60-61.
Public lands, classified, 51-55;
department proposed, 29.
Public Lands Commission, ap-
pointed, 28; of 1905, quoted,
31-32.
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Receivers and registers, 95, 113-
124; consolidation of offices,
96.
Reclamation Act, described, 30,
56-58.
Reclamation Division, activities
of, described, 103-104.
Reclamation reservations, super-
vised, 64-65.
Recorder's Office, duties of, de-
scribed, 85.
Rectangular system, improved,
15; surveys made by, 8-10, 18.
Registers and receivers, 95, 113-
124; consolidation of offices, 96.
Reorganization of land office
proposed, 19, 21-22.
Repayments, described, 60.
Resurveys, 42-44.
Retracement surveys, 41.
Rights-of-way, cases, 73; Divi-
sion, 86, 103-104.
Roosevelt, President, land policy
outlined, 30.
Seven Ranges, surveyed, 8, 13.
Special Agents' Field Service,
91-92; Division, 107-110.
Stock-Raising Homestead Act,
described, 33-34.
Stock-raising lands, protected, 34.
Surveyor-General, office created,
6; activities described, 92-94,
110-113; headquarters, 94-95;
statistics of work, 169.
Swamp land patents, described, | Townships, early, 8; diagrams,
39; plats, 39; surveys, 38-39.
Tract Book Division, 89, 106; no-
tations described, 60.
Treasury, Department, land sales
of, 10-11, 14; transfer of Gen-
eral Land Office from, 25.
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