OF THE COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR FOR THE YEAR 1871, WASHINGTON: REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, General Land Office, November 1, 1871. SIR: In compliance with a resolution adopted by the Senate of the United States, February 28, 1855, I have the honor to present the following as an abstract of the accompanying annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, viz: Disposal of public lands by ordinary cash sales... Certified for wagon-roads.. covered by adverse rights... Chippewa and Sioux Indian scrip locations.. Lands approved to States as swamp, and selected as indemnity for those Total... Sales of previous year. Increased disposal..... Cash receipts under various heads..... Acres. 1,389, 982. 37 525, 920.00 4, 600, 326. 23 494, 446.98 2,911, 938. 36 397, 981. 44 428, 597.01 16, 513.00 10,765, 705.39 8,095, 413.00 2,670, 292. 39 $2,929,284 70 Total area of the land States and Territories Surveyed within the last fiscal year... Which, with the 528,862,461 acres already surveyed, amounts to. Acres. 1,834, 998, 400 22,016, 608 550,879, 069 1,284, 119, 331 List of papers constituting annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. 1. Surveys of public lands, showing progress made during the past fiscal year, and giving list of United States surveyors and districts under their immediate superintendence; also, list of the different district land offices. 2. Synopsis of the surveying service in the different surveying districts. 3. Survey of morass lands along Little Calumet River. 4. Survey of confirmed private land claims in Colorado. 5. Survey of Indian reservations, comprising the Ponca reserve, Nez Percé, White Earth Indian reservation, Osage diminished reservation |