Total for Florida) Grand Total, 6.924.67 8,655 83 4,591 65 8,655 83 331,664 6215,631 27 418,486 6313.937 66 160,429 87 9,994 65 209,429 40 9,073 08 318,439 09 10,867 37 158 762 20 5,719 97 53,724 39 4,345 34 248,234 44 7,753 63 7,632 41 1.429 79 8.655 83 662 37 302,797 13 232,612 80 5,242 73 [1,509,801.73 1.904,467 52391 371,711,992 10 17,356 65175,510 14 1,904,858 89 79,314 141,610,130 18 677 87 8,738 05 662 37 5,242 73 256,600 03 9,003 67 65,460 92 331,367 45 1,074 60 86,044 57 136,299 50 4 4 27 22,706 10 200,208 68 220 72 215,098 93 156,176 18 2,586 02| 52,919 77 804 62 248,018 30 216 14 7,632 41 8,655 83 12,338 05 DONATIONS, &c. OF PUBLIC LANDS. I. The estimated amoun' The following statement exhibits, in acres: unsold of land to which the Indian and foreign titles have been extin guished. II. Estimated amount to which the Indian title has not been' extinguished. III. Quantity appropriated for Internal Improvements. IV Quantity appropriated for Colleges, Academies and Universities V The one thirty-sixth part of Public Lands appropriated for common VII. Schools. VI. Quantity appropriated for charitable institutions. Quantity appropriated for Seats of Government. VIII. Saline Reserva. tious. IX. Aggregate appropriated to each State or Territory, Jan. 1, 1832, For For Saline Aggregate Internal Title not common seats of reserva- for each schools. Govt. tions. State. tinguished. extinguish-improve Titles ex States. Ohio Indiana Illinois Colle- 678,576 1,737,838 556,184 2,560 23,040 1,012,592 1,712,225 Missouri 34,547,152 3,744,000 46,080,086,639 2,449 46,080 1,181,548, Mississippi- 21,211,465 6,529,280 46,080 685,884 1,280 733,247 Alabama 20,167,725 7,760,890 400,000 46,560 722,100 1,620 23,040 1,246,450 Louisiana-25,198,234 46,080 873,973 920,053 Michigan 17,883,681 82.005,536 46,080 543 893; 10,000 599,913 Arkansas 31,012,381 288,000 46,080 950,258 996,338 Florida 30,194,070 5,169,400 46,080 *Aggregate 227,293,884 113,577,869 2,187,665 508,000 7,952,538 21,589 298,288 $11,057,685 This aggregate of unsold lands is to the 31st December, 1831. Including salt spring reservations which are authorized to be sold by the State, and the proceeds applied to literary purposes. Including lands appropriated for schools in Clark's grant. The genera! aggregate includes the following donations:-In Ohio, Section No. 29, containing 43,525 acres, appropriated for religious purposes, in the purchases made by John C. Symmes, and the Ohio Company. In Alabama, 23,040 acres for the benefit of the Connecticut Deaf and Dumb Asylum. In Florida, 23.040 acres for the benefit of the Kentucky Deaf and Dumb Asylum. EXPENSES OF THE PUBLIC LANDS. Payment on account of the purchase of Louisiana : Payment of the settlement with the Yazoo claimants Payment of contracts with the several Indian tribes (all expenses on account of Indians) Payment of commissioners, clerks, and other officers employed by the United States for the management and sale of the western domain Amount of money received at the Treasury, as the proceeds of public lands, to the 30th September, 1831 11,852,132 56 3,593,834 54 $48 077,551 40 $37.272,713 31 SURVEYS OF THE PUBLIC LANDS. The uniform mode in which the Public Lands are surveyed conduces in the greatest possible degree to compactness of settlement. thod is rectangular. This me The greatest division of land is called a township, containing the quantity of 23,040 acres. The township is six miles square, and is subdivided into thirty-six equal divisions, or square miles, by lines crossing each other at right angles, called sections. The section contains 640 acres, and is subdivided into four parts, called quarter sections. The quarter section is divided into two equal parts, each, called half-quarter sections, which last, previous to the act of April 5, 1832, was the last regular subdivision; that act, however, admits of another, under certain circumstances, which is, by running an east and west line through the halfquarter sections to divide them into quarter quarter sections. SURVEYORS OF PUBLIC LANDS. Name. Micajah T. Williams, Surveyor General N. W. of Ohio, for the States of Onio Office. and Indiana, and Michigan Territory, Cincinnati, Ohio.... Samuel Williams...........Chief Clerk, Alfred S. Reeder..................Clerk, Compensation. 2000 00 do........ 850 00 do....... 625 00 do....... Washington, Miss... 2000 00 ..Clerk, do........ 900 00 J. A. Dutch.....................................................................do.... Robert Butler, Surveyor of Public Lands in Florida Isham Green Searcy.... Robert W. Williams................do.. Lands in Alabama......................... William Milburn..... Florence, Alabama .......... A. H. Evaus.................................... .............do.. . ..... ......do.............................. du REGISTERS OF LAND OFFICES. The compensation to Registers is 8500 per annum, and one per on moneys paid into the Land Office. Name. Office. cent. commision Date of commission. Feb. 19, 1830 Mar. 3, 1829 ..Indiana May 25, 1830 Wooster... ........... Bucyrus...... Thomas B. Vanhorn... St. Mary's William Lewis......... Jeffersonville.... ..... Robert Brackenridge.... Fort Wayne.. ........ Jan. 4, 1833 Mar. 25, 1830 Mar. 25, 1830 Joseph Kitchell.. Palestine........ Francis Prince.... Mar. 25, 1830 John Bidale....... Detroit....... Michigan Ter. Abraham Edwards .... White Pigeon Prairie William Christy... St. Louis........... Missouri Hampton L Boon 4, 1830 George Bullit..... April 6, 1832 Finis Ewing... ............ William Wright. ..... Palmyra............. Hartwell Boswell .. Batesville ....Arkansas Ter. April 6, 1828 Opelousas..................................... Thomas G. Davidson.. St. Helena, C. H... Benjamin L.C.Wailes.. Washington, Mississippi Augusta...... Feb 19, 1830 July 10, 1832 July 10, 1832 Ouachita... ......Louisiana May 30, 1832 Jan. 23, 1830 Dec. 17, 1829 ........ Mar. 25, 1830 Dec. 24, 1830 Samuel Gwin.......... Mount Salus................ John H Somerville.... Montgomery.. • ... George W. Ward...... Tallahassee....Florida Ter. May 22, 1830 RECEIVERS OF PUBLIC MONEYS. The compensation to Receivers is 8500 per annum, and one per cent. commission on moneys paid into the Land Office. Name. John H. Viers.......... Steubenville.... Morgan Neville........ Cincinnati....................................... Bernard Van Horne. Zanesville.... .... Samuel Quimby.... Wooster................. Robert I. Skinner...... St. Mary's................ James G. Reed......... Jeffersonville........Indiana .... Date of commission Office. ................... ............ Mar. 25, 1830 Dec 21, 1830 Mar. 25, 1830 Crawfordsville.... Fort Wayne............... John Caldwell..... Shawneetown........ .................. William Linn........ Vandalia... ................................. John Taylor.. Springfield.. Samuel Mc Roberts. Danville........ ... Jonathan Kearsley.. Detroit... .....Mich. Ter. Batesville....Arkansas Ter. ...... Dec. 12, 1832 Lexingtou.......... ........................ Benjamin S. Chambers. Little Rock..... Joseph Friend... Ouachita.. Benjamin Robert Rogers Opelousas.. William L. Robeson.... New Orleans........ ...................... George B. Dameron.... Mount Salus............. Mar. 2, 1832 William G. Parish..... Tuscaloosa...................... .... ........... |