CALIFORNIA,

C.

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Admitted into the Union, (No. 176,)

158

Commissioners to be appointed to settle private land claims, (Nos. 189,
229, 232, 264, 326,)
175, 211, 213, 242, 288

Indian reservations in, authorized, (No. 221,)

Survey of lands provided for, and pre-emption rights granted, school lands
set apart, &c., (No. 224,)

Pre-emption privilege extended, (No. 233,)

204

205

United States circuit judge to preside over district court, at trial of cer-
tain land claims, (No. 273,)

247

Indian reservation in, may be enlarged, (No. 280,).

251

President authorized to establish land districts in, (No. 323,)

286

Certain public archives to be put in charge of the Surveyor-General,
(No. 328,)

290

291

191

Act to prevent frauds in land titles in, (No. 329,)

CANAL around St. Mary's falls, Michigan, lands granted for, (No. 208,)
CERTIFICATE of treasurer of United States, to be received for land, (No. 93,)
CHAMPAGNOLE, Arkansas, land office established, (No. 96,) .
CHARITON LAND DISTRICT, Missouri, established, (No. 160,)
CHEROKEE pre-emption claims in Arkansas, confirmed, (No. 69,)
CHICAGO, authorities of, may excavate a certain reservation, (No. 202,)
CHIPPEWA INDIANS,

Titles to lands in Minnesota and Wisconsin to be extinguished, (No. 261,) 240
CHOCCHUMA,

Lands formerly reserved for French and Spanish claims may be pre-empted,
(No. 222,)

204

Which have been confirmed, to be patented, (No. 262,)

241

CLERK, principal of public lands and of survey, (No. 32,)

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COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI,

Certain alleged frauds at, under the pre-emption laws, to be investigated,
(No. 72.)

Certain sales of Chickasaw lands at, confirmed, (No. 106,)

COMBINATION to depress price of lands forbidden, (No. 20,) .
COMMISSIONER,

Of the General Land Office appointed, (No. 8,)
duties, (No. 32,)

COMPETITION between purchasers, how settled, (No. 12,)

COMPENSATION. (See FEES.)

CONFIRMING SALES OF LANDS, (No. 31,) .

In Louisiana, (Nos. 54, 157,)

In certain cases, (No. 62,)

School lands in certain States, (No. 68,)

COOSA LAND DISTRICT,

A tract of land annexed to, (No. 43,)

Office removed to Mardisville, (No. 49,)

COPIES of papers, affecting titles, to be furnished, (Nos. 13, 32, 75,)
COUNCIL BLUFFS, certain land may be entered for, (No. 235,)

COUNTERFEITING WARRANTS, &c., (No. 349,)

CROGHANSVILLE, Ohio, certain lots confirmed, (No. 95,)

D.

DANCING RABBIT CREEK, claims under treaty of, to be satisfied, (No. 59,)
DE BASTROP GRANT, in Louisiana,

Certain claims in, to be settled and pre-emptions allowed, (No. 187,)
Lands in, and in other French and Spanish claims, may be pre-empted,
(No. 222,)

73

173

204

Certain claims in, confirmed, (No. 241,)

225

Settlers on, may enter all subdivisions on which they have made improve-
ments, (No. 269,) .

245

DEATH of party entitled to pre-emption, in case of executor or heir, may file
necessary papers, (sec. 2, No. 72,)

84

DECLARATORY STATEMENT,

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84

84

To be filed by pre-emption claimants, (sec. 15, No. 48,)
Claimant can file but for one tract, (No. 72,)

On unproclaimed land, to be filed in three months after settlement, (No. 72,)
DES MOINES RIVER, land granted to Iowa to improve, (No. 117,)
DETROIT, land titles adjusted in, (No. 65,)
DISTRICT LAND. See State in which situate.
DONATIONS,

Of lands in Florida to settlers, (Nos. 56, 87,)
Certain in Arkansas, may be entered, (No. 174,)
In Oregon, provided for, (No. 181,)

Amended, (No. 218,)

In New Mexico, provided for, (No. 245,)

DUBUQUE CLAIMS,

In Iowa declared public land and subject to pre-emption, (No. 58,)
Certain town lots granted to, (No. 84,)

lands granted to, (No. 217,)

Embezzlement act with regard to,

In sale, how corrected, (Nos. 11, 14, 17, 19, 149,)
In location of land warrants, how corrected, (No. 225,)
In sale, repayment authorized, (No. 355,)
EVIDENCE, copies under seal of General Land Office, to be, (Nos. 8, 13,)
EXECUTORS may file necessary papers in pre-emption cases, (No. 72,)
EXEMPLIFICATIONS OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE RECORDS, to be of
same validity as if signed in full, (Nos. 13, 32, 75,)

FERNANDINA, Florida, certain lots relinquished to, (No. 85,)

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134, 179

302

95

FILING DECLARATORY NOTICE, not lawful for a claimant to file for more
than one tract, (No. 72,)

84

FIVE PER CENT. of proceeds of public land in said State, granted to Wis-
consin, (sec. 7, No. 113.) (See FUND,)

Amended, (No. 87,)

FLORIDA,

Providing for armed occupation and settlement of, (No. 56,)

Act for relief of settlers under foregoing, (No. 145,)

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96

138

Land District of Alachua established, land office to be at Newnansville,
(No. 67,)

81

Certain school selections authorized, (No. 83,)

94

Patents to issue for lands in St. Augustine District sold by Receiver Cleland,
(No. 86,)

95

Admitted into the Union, and boundary fixed, (No. 101,)

Amended act, (No. 271,)

246

Lands granted to railroads from St. Johns river, from Pensacola, &c.,

(No. 289,)

259

Military reserves in, to be sold, (No. 301,).

271

FORT,

Hamilton, exchance of lots authorized, (No. 185,)
Snelling, reservation reduced, (No. 209,)

Gratiot reservation, right of way, &c., granted on, (No. 350,)

FOX AND WISCONSIN RIVERS,

Land granted to Wisconsin to improve, (Nos. 120, 248,)
Explained, (No. 285,)

Reservation subject to pre-emption, (No. 139,)
Sales of certain sections confirmed, (No. 165,)

Sale of land selected and sold by State for, confirmed, (No. 339,) .

FUND,
Two per cent. in Missouri, how appropriated, (No. 356,)

Two per cent. granted to Missouri and Alabama, (secs. 16, 17, Nos. 48, 131,
161,)

Two per cent., how to be applied by Mississippi, (No. 141,)
Five per cent. on sales granted to Iowa, (Nos. 103, 162,)

Alabama allowed longer time to select lands, (Nos. 131, 161, 215,) 131, 147, 196
Five per cent. allowed Mississippi on Indian reservations, (No. 314,)

282

FRAUDS,

Under certain pre-emption laws, to be investigated, (No. 72,)

In land titles in California, how prevented, (No. 329,)

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291

G.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE,

Established, (No. 8,)

Reorganized, (No. 32,)

Appeals from, lie to the Secretary of the Interior, (No. 167,)
GRADUATION ACT,

Authorizing reduction to actual settlers, (No. 251,)

Amended, (No. 283,)

Compensation of Register and Receiver under, (No. 276,)
Receiver may refund excess paid under, (No. 277,)
Not to interfere with Lake Pepin reserve, (No. 280,)

As to lands in the Greensburg District, Louisiana, (No. 302,)
Entries under, prior to 3d March, 1857, confirmed, (No. 308,)
GRANT RIVER, a section of land granted to improve at Potosi, (No. 81,)
GRANTS OF LAND. See the State to which made, or RAILROADS,
To state when certified, in lists, the fee to vest, (No. 249,) ·
GRENADA, Land Office removed to, (see Appendix, No. 421,) .
GREENSBURG DISTRICT, LOUISIANA,

Certain lands to be re-surveyed, (No. 64,)
Certain settlement claims confirmed, (No. 114,)

H.

HARPER'S FERRY,

Boundary of armory at, may be changed, (No. 94,)
Other lots may be purchased for armory, (No. 304,)
HEIRS,

May file pre-emption papers, (No. 72,)

Of deceased pre-emptors' patents, to issue to, (No. 72,)
Patents for bounty lands may issue in name of, (No. 78,).

HOME DEPARTMENT. (See INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.)

288

123, 294, 310

HUNGARIAN SETTLERS IN IOWA, entitled to pre-emption, (No. 327,)
HOUMA LAND CLAIM IN LOUISIANA, to be examined by the Attorney-
General, &c., (Nos. 122, 334, 360,)

ILLINOIS,

I.

Authorized to select lands for canals, (No. 66,)

to sell school lands, (No. 68,)

Lead ore lands in, may be sold, (No. 105,) .
Authorized to sell salt spring lands, (No. 130,)

Lands granted to aid in making a railroad to the Ohio river, (No. 178,)
Pre-emptions granted on line of said railroad, (No. 205,)
Chicago authorities may excavate a certain reservation, (No. 202,)
Authorized to select residue of lands granted for the Illinois river and Lake
Michigan Canal, (No. 247,)

Settlers on lands in, selected for internal improvements,
emption, (No. 340,)

entitled to pre-

299

INDIANA,

Miami lands in, opened to pre-emption, (No. 109,)

Certain lands selected for Wabash and Erie Canal confirmed to, (No. 45,)
May select other lands, (No. 136,)

Lands granted to extend said canal, (No. 99,)

may be pre-empted with land warrants by soldiers, (No. 152,)

Certain lands attached to Fort Wayne and other districts, (No. 116,)
Pottawatomie reservations, how alienated, (No. 135,)
Deficiency of grant for University supplied, (No. 198,)
Saline lands in, may be sold, (No. 201,)

Indemnified for loss of a certain township granted for University, (No. 231,) 212
Titles to lands granted in 1778 to be adjusted, (No. 246,)

233

Land office at Vincennes continued, and certain titles adjusted, (Nos. 303,
346,)

Certain deeds to be returned to land office at Vincennes, (No. 322,)
Act for the relief of a certain township in Wabash county, (No. 359,)

INDIAN LANDS,

When acquired, improvements on may be sold by the Secretary of War,
(No. 71,)

Net proceeds of sale of, how to be paid to certain tribes, (No. 280,)
Reservations in California authorized, (No. 221,)

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251

204

Improvements on Indian lands in Washington Territory may be paid for,
(No. 306,)

INDIANS,

Brotherton, to be citizens, (No. 37.)

Christian, land sold to A. J. Isacks, confirmed, (No. 338,)
Reservations of, intruders may be removed from, (No. 343,)
Patents may issue to, for certain lands in Kansas, (No 358,)

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT ESTABLISHED, (No. 167,)
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS,

Lands granted for, (sec. 8, No. 48,)

Lands in Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri to be selected by the Governors,
(No. 50,)

66

Lands erroneously selected in Wisconsin for, may be pre-empted, (No. 332,) 294

Dubuque claim, declared public lands, (No. 58,)

73

Fox,) (No. 61,)

School lands to be selected in lieu of those granted to Indians, (Sacs and

School lands authorized to be selected, (No. 83,)

77

94

Boundary line between Missouri and, to be run, (No. 90,)

Admitted into the Union and boundary fixed, (No. 101,)

106

Amended, (No. 103,)

Lead ore lands in, to be sold, (No. 105,)

109

Boundaries defined, (No. 111,)

113

Boundary questions in dispute with Missouri to be settled by the United
States Supreme Court, (No. 111,)

113

Entitled to two representatives until following census, (sec. 3, No. 111,)

Act, 1845, submitting certain propositions repealed, (No. 103,)

in part repealed, (sec. 4, No. 111,)

Lands granted to Des Moines river improvement, (No. 117,)
Land district established, (No. 119,)

Admitted into the Union, (No. 124,)

Declaratory Act relative to school lands, (No. 162,)

Boundary between Wisconsin and, to be run, (No. 170,)

Salt lands in, relinquished to, (No. 194,)

Chariton, Northern and Missouri river districts created, (No. 204,)

Certain lands granted to towns of Belleview, Burlington and Dubuque,
(No. 217,)

Certain lands may be entered for Council Bluffs, (No. 235,)

214

Boundaries of land districts changed, and Sioux river and Council Bluffs
district established, (No. 284,)

254

Lands granted to, for railroads from Burlington, &c., (No. 288,)
Hungarian settlers in, entitled to pre-emption, (No. 327,)

JOINT PRE-EMPTION ENTRIES under Pre-emption Acts of 1838 and 1840,
permitted by residents on same tract, (No. 72,)

Delaware, Osage and Western Land Districts established, (No. 310,)

278

Sections sixteen and thirty-six in, may be pre-empted by settlers, (No. 320,) 285
Sale of christian Indian reservation confirmed, (No. 338,)

297

Patents may be issued to Indians for certain lands, (No. 358,)

309

L.

LAFAYETTE, General, warrants granted to, may be relocated, (No. 98,)

To be discontinued when unsold lands shall be less than 100,000 acres,

(No. 42,)

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