PASSED BY CONGRESS FROM MARCH 4, 1875, TO APRIL 1, 1882, WITH THE IMPORTANT DECISIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, AND COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL THE LAND OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND THE CIRCULAR INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED FROM THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE TO THE SURVEYORS 7 1 BY HENRY N. COPP, PUBLISHED BY THE EDITOR: WASHINGTON, D. C. F7 59832 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1888, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Printed and Bound by the Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company, Lancaster, Penna. PREFACE. This work is designed to show the development of the public land system from 1875, where the first volume of Copp's Public Land Laws leaves the subject, to 1882, where Volume 9 of Copp's Land Owner resumes it. The intention is to present a repository of the important decisions and regulations of the Land Department during that period, rather than an exposition of the rulings and instructions in force at the present time. Copp's Land Owner, published monthly since April, 1874, was expected to supply this demand, and numerous bound volumes have been disposed of. But so many back numbers are now exhausted, that something is demanded to supply the missing matter. It has been deemed better to reprint in book form rather than in Land-Owner form, and this volume is accordingly submitted with the hope that it may prove useful to the profession. SCOPE OF THE WORK. All branches of public land law are included except that relating to mineral lands, which is made the subject of a separate book entitled "Copp's United States Mineral Lands" (2d edition, 1882). The U. S. Revised Land Statutes and the Public Land Commission's Codification of the General and Permanent Land Laws are also included. Washington, D. C., December, 1882. H. N. COPP. |