The Public Lands, Količina 1The Bureau, 1960 Volume one of this two-volume work presents an outline of the history of the public lands, meaning those lands other than the 13 original colonies. Volume two contains a selection of copies of original documents, from the National Archive in Washington, D.C, of the more significant public laws, Congressional Committee reports and papers on the public lands dating from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. |
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Stran 1
... allowed unlimited western expansion , the British Government pro- hibited westward movement . To the land hungry colonists , the Crown policy was restrictive and a depressant to their ambitions . The formation of the Continental ...
... allowed unlimited western expansion , the British Government pro- hibited westward movement . To the land hungry colonists , the Crown policy was restrictive and a depressant to their ambitions . The formation of the Continental ...
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... allowed the sale of land in 80 - acre tracts at a new lower price of $ 1.25 per acre , the minimum price which , for certain purposes , still is in force today . Because of the failure of the credit system as provided in the 1800 Act ...
... allowed the sale of land in 80 - acre tracts at a new lower price of $ 1.25 per acre , the minimum price which , for certain purposes , still is in force today . Because of the failure of the credit system as provided in the 1800 Act ...
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... allowed the settlers in question the right to buy the land at $ 2.00 per acre . 667 During the first decade of the 19th Century similar special acts were passed pro- viding for squatters in many of the Western States and territories ...
... allowed the settlers in question the right to buy the land at $ 2.00 per acre . 667 During the first decade of the 19th Century similar special acts were passed pro- viding for squatters in many of the Western States and territories ...
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... allowed squatters who had " made or hereafter make a settlement in person on the public lands " the right to purchase the property . 69 / The law in effect opened the door to wholesale preemption on all surveyed Federal lands ...
... allowed squatters who had " made or hereafter make a settlement in person on the public lands " the right to purchase the property . 69 / The law in effect opened the door to wholesale preemption on all surveyed Federal lands ...
Stran 31
... allowed squatters on unsurveyed Federal lands . 71 / The passage of these Acts were real victories and offered real encouragement to those who advocated a general free land bill . It was in the period 1841-1862 that preemption was ...
... allowed squatters on unsurveyed Federal lands . 71 / The passage of these Acts were real victories and offered real encouragement to those who advocated a general free land bill . It was in the period 1841-1862 that preemption was ...
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1st session 29th Congress 62nd Congress acres of land administration advocates Agriculture ALASKA Purchased America became bill Bureau of Land Canal Commissioner Congress Congressional conservation created Department disposition Donaldson Edward Tiffin enacted established farm Federal Government Federal lands forest reserves free land grazing districts grazing land Grazing Service Homestead Act Ibid important Interior internal improvements Kinkaid Act land concept Land Economics Land Grant College land laws land legislation Land Management Land Office Report land sales land speculation Louisiana Purchase Michigan million acres mineral lands Mississippi Northwest Territory numerous Ohio Ordinance of 1785 Oregon Pacific Railroad passage passed period preemption laws price graduation problems public domain Public Land Documents public lands purposes received recommendations reorganization revenue River sale of public Secretary Selected Public Land Senate settlers sold Statute survey Taylor Grazing Act Territory Thomas Hart Benton tracts transcontinental railroad Treasury United Utah veto wagon road Washington West western lands
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 21 - It seems to me to be our true policy that the public lands shall cease, as soon as practicable, to be a source of revenue...
Stran 10 - The future inhabitants of the Atlantic and Mississippi States will be our sons. We leave them in distinct but bordering establishments. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we wish it.
Stran 12 - When we shall be full on this side, we may lay off a range of States on the western bank from the head to the mouth, and so, range after range, advancing compactly as we multiply.
Stran 60 - States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Stran 22 - The effects of an extension of bank credits and over issues of bank paper have been strikingly illustrated in the sales of the public lands. From the returns made by the various registers and receivers in the early part of last summer, it was perceived that the receipts arising from the sales of public lands were increasing to an unprecedented amount.
Stran 23 - Those credits on the books of some of the western banks, usually called deposits, were already greatly beyond their immediate means of payment, and were rapidly increasing. Indeed, each speculation furnished means for another ; for no sooner had one individual or company paid in the notes, than they were immediately lent to another for a like purpose ; and the banks were extending their business and their issues so largely as to alarm considerate men, and render it doubtful whether these bank credits,...
Stran 5 - States shall be and are hereby appropriated toward sinking or discharging the debts for the payment whereof the United States now are or by virtue of this act may be holden, and shall be applied solely to that use until the said debt shall be fully satisfied. To secure to the Government of the United States...
Stran 6 - Purchasers may be contemplated in three classes : moneyed individuals and companies who will buy to sell again ; associations of persons who intend to make settlements themselves; single persons or families, now resident in the western country or who may emigrate thither hereafter.
Stran 79 - US population of 300 million - nearly doubled in 40 years - will need far greater supplies of farm products, timber, water, minerals, fuels, energy, and opportunities for outdoor recreation. Present projections tell us that our water use will double in the next 20 years; that we are harvesting our supply of high-grade timber more rapidly than the development of new growth; that too much of our fertile topsoil is being washed away; that our minerals are being exhausted at increasing rates; and that...
Stran 2 - ... these several creditors have a right to expect that funds shall be provided on which they may rely for indemnification ; that Congress still consider vacant territory as an important resource : and that therefore the said states be earnestly pressed, by immediate and liberal cessions, to forward these necessary ends, and to promote the harmony of the union.