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Title

The public domain. Its history, with statistics, with references to the national domain, colonization, acquirement of territory, the survey, administration and several methods of sale and disposition of the public domain of the United States. With sketch of legislative history of the land states and territories, and references to the land system of the colonies, and also that of several foreign governments.

Authors

Johnson Annotation

Report on the Public Domain. [2155-2158] Land laws, and land statistics; Indian reservations and Indian Territory; digest of relevant Indian treaties (Serial 2158).

Johnson's Bibliographic Reference

1883-61

Serial Set Citation

2158 H.misdoc.45

Subjects

Indian Territory - Lands* Land - Indian Title* Land - Laws* Laws* Reservations* Treaties

Congress-Session

47-2

Document Type

House Miscellaneous Document

Congressional Document Number

45

Publication Date

7-16-1881

Recommended Citation

H.R. Misc. Doc. No. 45, 47th Cong., 2nd Sess. (1881)

Number of Pages

1372

Comments

Contains color maps of Utah, Indian Territory, Indian Reservations, Railroads, Precious Metal Regions, Desert Land Act, Private Land Claims, and other sketch maps and diagrams

Links

Map Showing Indian Reservations in the United States West of the 84th Meridian and Number of Indians Belonging Thereto, 1883

Indian Territory, 1883

Precious Metals Regions of the Public Domain West of the 100 Meridian (Approximate) June 30, 1883