No. 19.—Statement showing the area of the several States and Territories containing public and the quantity of land which remained unsold and unap

25, 576, 960, 00 21, 637, 760. 00 35, 462, 400, 00 41, 824, 000, 00 32, 462, 080, 00 30, 179, 840, 00 26, 461, 440, 00 36, 128, 640. 00 33, 406, 720. 00 37, 931, 520, CO 35, 228, 800. 00 34, 511, 360. 00 120, 947, 840. 00 53, 459, 840. 00 60, 975, 360.00 52, 043, 520, 00 71, 737, 600. 00 48, 636, 200.00 44, 796, 160. 00 77, 56, 640.00

12, 805, 911.82
16, 124, 014. 78
19, 879, 541, 00
22,963, 198. 02
17, 789, 351. 45
12, 201, 037. 03

5,720, 349. 71
12, 463, 610, 26

, 235, 726, 57 1, 832, 431. 49 11, 916, 276. 26 10, 176, 950, 55 3, 371, 630. 41 2, 426, 501. 78

309, 611. 13 511, 433. 42 67, 179, 39 1, 053, 188, 51 362, 797. 14 480.00

Total...

84, 476.37 150, 931. 45 104, 500. 00 143, 776. 00! 113, 916. 00 86, 294. 00 97, 882.92 68, 991. 00 577, 390.00 2,867, 184. 74

18,200.00

26,500.00

Column No. 5 shows the quantity of public land returned as actually located with military bounty. tary reserve in Ohio, nor the outstanding warrants not returned as located up to June 30, 1870.

Column No. 6 shows the quantity selected within their own limits, by States containing public lands. under said act to non-public-land-holding States which had been located by the State assignees up to said act be made applicable to all the States.

Column No. 7 shows the quantity actually certified under grants for railroads, and not the whole ferred pursuant to the railroad grants by acts of Congress, with the grants for wagon roads, will be Column No. 8 shows the quantity embraced in approved swamp selections up to the 30th June, 1570 approvals. (See swamp table No. 6.)

Column No. 9 shows the quantity granted for internal improvements under the act of September 4. in prior grants to each State for internal improvements. In the case of Ohio and Indiana the prior received no land under the act of 1841. In the case of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, the quantities under the acts of 1842 and 1854; the quantity granted to Iowa for the improvement of the Des Moines improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, under the act of 1846, and therefore exceed the quantity Column No. 10shows the quantity granted for university purposes, and the estimated quantity granted the Indian Territory nor Alaska being included.

lands, the quantity of land disposed of, by sale or otherwise, in each up to the 30th June, 1870, propriated at that date in the several States and Territories.

land warrants, and does not include the military scrip received as money, the area of the Virginia miliunder the agricultural college act of July 2, 1862, and its supplements; also the quantity of scrip issued June 30, 1870, and not the quantity liable to pass under the act, which would be 9,510,000 acres, should

quantity which will inure under the grants, it being estimated that the aggregate which will be transequal to 198,165,794.67 acres. (See table No. 11.)

under the acts of 1849, 1850, and 1860, and not the quantity selected, the latter being in excess of the

1841, and specific grants prior thereto. The act of 1841 granted 500,000 acres, less the quantity embraced grants covered the quantity given in column 9, exceeding 500,000 acres, and therefore those States given in this column include the additional selections by Illinois for the Illinois and Michigan Canal, River, under the acts of 1846 and 1862, and joint resolution of 1861; also the grant to Wisconsin for the of 500,000 acres.

to the States and reserved in the organized Territories, respectively, for the support of schools, neither

Column No. 12 shows the quantity located with scrip issued under the act of March 17, 1862, (12 Stat..., La Nana grants, in Louisiana.

Column No. 15, showing the quantity granted for salines, does not include the selections by the State Column No. 21 shows the quantity embraced in confirmed private claims, so far as returns of surveys DEPARTMENT of the INTERIOR, General Land Office, October 27, 1870.

* Donations to actual settlers under the act of September 27, 1850, and supplemental acts.

p. 371,) in satisfaction of claims against the United States for lands sold within the Las Ormigas and

of Nebraska under the act of April 19, 1864, (13 Stat., p. 49.)

have been received, not embracing claims confirmed and not yet reported as surveyed.

JOS. S. WILSON, Commissioner.

+ Including Chickasaw cession.

No. 20.-Historical and statistical table of the United States of North America.

[NOTE. The whole area of the United States, including water surface of lakes and rivers, is nearly equal to four million square miles, embracing the Russian purchase.]