LAND OFFICES, continued.

Located at seat of State Governments, may be continued, however, (sec. 7,
No. 48,)

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Vacancies in, not to operate against pre-emption claimants, (No. 72,)
To be discontinued when the expenses amount to one-third the revenue in
any district, (No. 220,)

84

203

President may change location of, (Nos. 220, 223,)

203-205

82

lands in Greensburg District to be re-surveyed, (No. 64,)
Authorized to sell school lands, (No. 68,)

LEASE of school lands, in certain States, authorized, (No. 68,)

LEAD ORE. (See MINERAL LANDS.)

LIVE OAK Reservations in Louisiana opened for pre-emption, (No. 72,)

LOUISIANA,

Certain entries of land confirmed, (Nos. 51, 54, 157,)

82

84

97

137

Live oak reservations released, (No. 70,)

Act of 1824, enabling claimants to establish their claims in the courts, ex-
tended to, (No. 89,)

Certain lands in, attached to the north-western district, (No. 142,)

settlement claims in Greensburg District confirmed, (Nos. 54, 157,) 68, 145
Houma claims in, to be examined by the Attorney-General, &c., (No. 122,) 123
Certain land claims confirmed, (No. 334,)

Authorized to purchase land for State House at Baton Rouge, (No. 123,)
Swamp lands granted to, (No. 166,)

Pre-emptions in Maison Rouge grant, (No. 184,)

De Bastrop grant, (No. 187,)

Certain claims in the De Bastrop grant confirmed, (No. 241,)

225

laws relative to Rio Hondo claims revived, (No. 250,)

236

Lands granted to, for certain railroads from New Orleans, from Shreve-

MAIL CONTRACTORS, entitled to pre-empt certain lands, (Nos. 279, 311,) 250, 299
MARKET, lands embraced in rejected claims ordered into, (sec. 5, No. 110,) 112
MAISON ROUGE GRANT,

Act granting pre-emptions to settlers and purchasers on, (No. 184,)
Lands and others, may be pre-empted, (No. 222,)

Settlers on, may enter subdivisions improved by them, (No. 269,).

Pre-emption claimants of, who were soldiers in the Mexican war, may

142

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Wyandott lands in, to be sold, (Nos. 74, 200,)
Authorized to sell salt spring lands, (No. 130,)

And Rock River Reservations, subject to pre-emptions, (No. 139,)
Act for settlement of claims at Sault Ste. Marie, (No. 179,)
Price of mineral lands in, reduced, (No. 180,)

Lands granted for canal around St. Mary's Falls, (No. 208,

208,)

Cheboygan land district created, (No. 237,)

Land Office at Kalamazoo, continued, (No. 286,)

256

granted for railroad to Marquette, &c., (No. 293,)

265

Detroit and Saginaw land district enlarged, (Nos. 325, 345,)

Right of way and depot grounds granted on Fort Gratiot reservation,
(No. 350,).

MILITARY WARRANTS. (See WARRANTS.)

Reserves in Florida, how to be sold, (No. 301,)

MILITARY WARRANTS, continued.

Sites when useless, to be sold, (No. 315,)

laws authorizing sale of, repealed, (No. 344,)

MINNESOTA,

Territorial government established, (No. 169,)
School lands in, reserved, (No. 169,)

how managed, (No. 186,)

Military reserves, at St. Peter's river, reduced, (No. 209,)

Amended act, (No. 209,)

Mendota may be entered as a town, (No. 209,)

Sauk river land district established, (No. 210,)

School grant deficiency, how provided for, (No. 226,)

193

210

Root River, Winona, Red Wing and Minneapolis districts established,

Lands granted for Northwest and Pacific railroad, (No. 242,)

Tract belonging to half-breeds of Sioux Indians to be surveyed, and scrip

to be issued in exchange, (No. 243,)

Pre-emption rights granted, amended, (No. 330,)

extended to unsurveyed land, (No. 255,)

Admitted, (see Appendix, No. 3271,)

Amended, (No. 324,)

Title to Chippewa lands in, to be extinguished, (No. 261,) .

North-eastern and north-western land districts established, (No. 297,)

Authorized to form a State government, &c., (No. 305,)
Lands granted for railroad, from Stillwater, &c., (No. 312,)

240

734

268

287

274

279

Office of Surveyor-General to be removed to St. Paul, (No. 316,)
Settlers on school sections may pre-empt, (No. 320,)

283

285

MINES,

Lands containing, not subject to pre-emption, (sec. 10, No. 48,)
And mill-seats, Surveyor-General to note situation of, (No. 1,)

MINERAL LANDS,

Containing lead ore, in Illinois, Arkansas, Wisconsin and Iowa, may be sold,
(No. 105,).

109

In Chippewa district, Wisconsin, how sold, (No. 129,)
Transferred to control of Treasury Department, (No. 129,)
Price in Wisconsin and Michigan, reduced, (No. 180,)

Two per cent. on land sold in, granted, to be applied to a certain railroad,
(No. 48,)

School lands selected by Governor, (No. 53,)

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137

67

Act of 1824, enabling claimants to bring suits for land, extended to, (No. 89,)
Certain claims and settlement right in, conferred, (Nos. 100, 151,)
Lands granted for Mobile and Ohio railroad in, (No. 178,)
School lands in, may be sold or leased, (No. 192,)

Lands granted for railroad from Jackson, &c., (No. 299,)

269

Allowed five per cent. on lands sold in Chickasaw and Choctaw reserva-
tions, (No. 314,)

282

Act for relief of purchasers of graduated lands in Choctaw cession,
(Nos. 317, 341,)

New land district created in, and boundaries of former districts changed,
(No. 63,)

78

Act of 1824, authorizing suits to be brought to try the validity of land
claims, extended, (No. 89,)

MISSOURI, continued.

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Boundary line between Iowa and, to be settled by the Supreme Court of the
United States, (No. 111,) .

113

Chariton land district established, (No. 160,)

147

Lands granted for construction of the Hanibal and St. Joseph's railroad,
(No. 196,).

183

Authorized to tax lands from date of sale, (No. 197,)

184

Lands granted for Little Rock, Fulton and Fort Smith railroad, (No. 216,)

196

Indian titles to lands west of, how extinguished, (No. 221,)

204

Land offices at Palmyra, allowed compensation, (No. 286,)

256

Certain lands in Plattsburg district may be purchased, (No. 295,).

267

Location of certain confirmed land claims provided for, (No. 334,)

294

Suspended, (No. 360,)

310

Act assenting to disposition made of the two per cent. fund in, (No. 356,) 308
MOBILE AND OHIO RAILROAD, act for relief of, (No. 352,).

Sections sixteen and thirty-six reserved for schools, (sec. 16, No. 239,)
Surveyor-General's Office established, (No. 245,)

Pre-emption laws extended to, (No. 245,)

Omaha land district established, (No. 245,)

216

Nemaha, South Platte river and Dahkota land district established, (No. 309,) 277
Settlers on school lands may pre-empt, (No. 320,) .

Land claims of certain pueblos and towns, confirmed, (No. 347,)
School land fund in Sarpy county protected, (No. 354,)
Reservations for Pima and Maricopas Indians, to be set apart, (No. 357,)

Office of Surveyor-General established, and donations granted in, (No. 245,) 230
Sections sixteen and thirty-six reserved for schools, (No. 245,)
Pre-emption laws extended to, (No. 245,)

NEW MADRID Locations south of the Arkansas river, perfected, (No. 69,)
NORTH CAROLINA, Tennessee to satisfy certain land claims, (No. 44,)
NOTICE-PRE-EMPTION. (See DECLARATORY STATEMENT.)

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56

OATHS,

0.

To be administered by Register and Receiver, (Nos. 14, 41,)

OHIO RIVER, Surveyor-General to survey lands northwest of Ohio river, (No. 1,)
OHIO LANDS ceded by Wyandott Indians to be surveyed, (Nos. 74, 200,) 87, 185

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, pension laws extended to, (No. 147,)
OREGON,

Notice to be given to Great Britain, that joint occupancy of, shall cease,
(No. 121,).

Territorial government established, (No. 154,)

Treaties with Indians for lands to be made, (No. 173,)

OREGON, continued.

School lands, where occupied under the donation law, other land may be

selected, (No. 212,)

Donation Act amended so as to allow a claimant, after two years, to pay
for his land, (No. 218,)

Amended, (No. 244,)

Surveyor-General of, to have a seal, (No. 224,)

Pre-emption law extended to, (No. 244,)

Umpqua Land District established, (No. 266,)

Land laws extended east of Cascade Mountains, (No. 333,)

Appropriation to pay clerks in certain land offices in, (No. 337,)
Admitted into the Union, (No. 351,)

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199

1 100

99

189

67

Issued to heirs of soldiers, (No. 78,)

In name of deceased persons, (No. 30,)

President may appoint Assistant Secretary to sign, (No. 133,)

To issue for certain confirmed claims, (No. 262,)

to certain Indians in Kansas, (No. 358,)

PENSION LAWS extended to ordnance corps, (No. 147,)

PERJURY, (see Appendix, No. 3321⁄2,)

PERRYSBURG, OHIO, lots in, confirmed, (No. 95,)

PILOTS, Branch, of New Orleans, authorized to enter certain lands, (No. 92,)
PLANK ROADS AND TURNPIKES, right of way granted for, (No. 206,)
POLISH EXILES, land granted to, may be pre-empted, (No. 52,)
POTOSI. (See GRANT RIVER.)

PONTOTOC, MISSISSIPPI, when land office at, is discontinued, the Clerk
of the United States District Court to perform duties of Register and Re-
ceiver, (No. 220,)

203

PRE-EMPTIONS,

Granted to counties to establish seats of justice, (No. 16,)

Right extended to unsurveyed lands in Minnesota, (No. 255,)

Claim on unproclaimed lands to be made known in three months, (No. 72,)

In Maison grant, Louisiana, authorized, (Nos. 184, 187,)

May be located with warrants, (No. 190,)

Granted to settlers on Menomonee purchase, Wisconsin, (No. 195,)

on line of Illinois Central Railroad, (No. 205,)

in California, (No. 224,)

Extended, (No. 233,)

Mail contractors entitled to, (Nos. 279, 311,)

Laws extended to reserved sections on railway lines, (No. 222,)

sections 13 and 36, in Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska, (No. 320,) 285
Granted to settlers on half-breed tract in Minnesota, (No. 330,)

Cases, appeals in, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, (No. 342,) 299
PRE-EMPTORS may purchase lands at private entry, after the expiration of
pre-emption right, (No. 72,)

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PRESIDENT may proclaim land sales, (No. 5,)

PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS IN CALIFORNIA, to be settled, (Nos. 189, 229,
232, 264,)

PRICE OF PUBLIC LANDS fixed, (Nos. 12, 251,)

PROCEEDS OF LAND SALES,

To be distributed among the States, (No. 48,)

Five per cent. granted to Wisconsin, (No. 113,)
Certain, released to State of Tennessee, (No. 115,).
Act of 1841, (No. 48,)

Explained, (No. 140,)

Sales of public lands. (See SALES.)

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175, 211, 213, 242

54, 236

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115

118

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136

59

PROOF IN PRE-EMPTION CASES, how made, (sec. 12, No. 48,)

POTTAWATOMIE RESERVATIONS IN INDIANA, may be alienated, (No. 135,) 133
PUBLIC BUILDINGS,

In Iowa, lands donated for, (No. 36,)

In California, lands donated for, (No. 224,)

In Minnesota, (No. 305,)

PURCHASE OF LAND,

In what quantities, (No. 24,)

Land officers not allowed to, (No. 32,)

R.

RAILROAD,

Grant of land to Alabama, Illinois and Mississippi, for the Mobile and
Ohio, (No. 178,)

160

same repealed, (No. 253,)

Settlers on line of said road, entitled to pre-emption, (No. 205,)
Grant to Missouri for the Hannibal and St. Joseph, (No. 196,)
Grant to Arkansas for the Little Rock and Fulton, (No. 216,)
Lands reserved, may be pre-empted, (No. 222,)
withdrawn, (No. 234,)

Grant to Minnesota for the Northwest and Pacific, (No. 242,)

Iowa for roads from Burlington, &c., (No. 288,)

Florida and Alabama, for the Pensacola and Montgomery, &c., (No. 289,) 259

Michigan for, from Little Bay de Noquette, &c., (No. 293,)
Mississippi for, from Jackson, &c., (No. 299,)
Minnesota for, from Stillwater, &c., (No. 312,)
Alabama for, from Georgia line, &c., (No. 312,)
Act for relief of the Mobile and Ohio, (No. 352,)
RECEIVERS. (See REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS.)
Compensation of, (No. 10,)