AMERICAN SETTLER'S GUIDE:

OF THE

CALITCON

THE
A POPULAR EXPOSITION

PUBLIC LAND SYSTEM
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

HENRY N. OOPP.
Editor of Copp's Public Land Laws, U. S. Mining Decisions, U. S. Mineral Lands, Hand-Book
of Mining Law, American Mining Code, and Copp's Land Owner.
TENTH EDITION

I
UNIVEBATTY

OF THE

BY

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PUBLISHED BY THE EDITOR,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

1886.

NOTE.— The references in this book to Copp's Public Land Laws are to the
work issued in 1875. The Land Owner references herein, from Vols. 2. to 8
inclusive, may be found in Copp's Public Land Laws, 1882, by means of the
List of Cases in that work.

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1886

COPYRIGHT,
BY HENRY N. COPP,

1886,

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INQUIRER P. & P. CO.,
STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS,

LANCASTER, PA.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

EXPLANATORY.

TAGA.

1. Public and Private Lands

a. Lands not Public.

b. Public Lands .

c. Kinds of Public Lands,

II. Several Terms Explained.

a. Public Sale.

b. Private Sale, Private Entry, and Location.

c. Offered and Unoffered Lands .

d. Minimum and Double Minimum Lands

III. What will Pay for Lands .

'a: Cash Purchases.

6. Location with Warrants

c. Agricultural College Scrip

d. Supreme Court Scrip

e. Indemnity Land Scrip.

f. Revolutionary Bounty Land Scrip.

g: Certificates of Deposits.

h. Other Kinds of Scrip.

IV. Citizenship:

V. Presentation of Appeals.

VI. How Much Land One Person Can Take.

VII. What An Agent Can Do.

CHAPTER II.

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UNITED STATES SYSTEM OF SURVEYS.

How to Find, a Tract of Land

How Townships are Numbered .

How to Tell Corners

Manner of Establishing Corners by Posts

Diagram Illustrating Public Surveys .

Notching Corner Posts

Bearing Trees

Corner Stones

Mounds.

Double Corners

Instructions for Surveys since 1864

Meandering Navigable Streams :

Surveys Made at Expense of Settlers

How to Subdivide Sections.

Re-establishment of Lost Corners

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HOMESTEADS.

1. Homesteads in General .

a. Application and Entry

Adjoining Farm Entries .

Additional Entries, Law of 1879

Indian Homesteads .

Rulings of the Land Department

6. Residence and Cultivation.

Amendment.

Application for Change of Entry

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