Congressional action, early, as to sale and disposition of the public domain...196-208 Page. 39 Constitutions of the several legislative States, conventions to form, votes on 416-464 Convention to form Constitution of the United States Corporations, land grants to.... Corte de Madera del Presidio, Mexican grant in California... 58 267 382 21 21 21 survey and disposition of the public domain from 1785 to 1880.... 192 189 Dakota, Territory of, population at periods, when organized, legislation as to .. 455 212 370 47 land States and the Territories (see each State and Desert land act, special and general legislation as to, result of.. Page. Desert, new system of granting, suggested............ Disposition and sale of public lands in Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.. existing methods.... plan of Alexander Hamilton, for. a general system proposed procedure and method, December 28, 1814.... 27 477 198 411 196 203 203 21 Washington Territory.... Donations, miscellaneous, and grants special. grant to Canadian and Nova Scotia refugees.. to A. H. Dohrman.... 256 322 477 295 297 296 296 209 209 210 212 209 for levee purposes, Point Coupee and West Baton Rouge. 211 211 to Moravian Indians.... to inhabitants of New Madrid. to Polish exiles ... for religious purposes to Ebenezer and Isaac Zane.... Dohrman, A. H., grant of land to, for aid to American sailors, 1787.......... Donaldson, Thos., Land Commissioner, compiler of History of Public Domain.. Dubuque, lead mines at ............ Dutton, C. E., Secretary of Land Commission.. 211 211 212 209 210 209 iii-vi 374 iii-vi Entries under the homestead acts, number of, to June 30, 1880, with tables..... 350 "Erie purchase" by Pennsylvania from United States... 71 Exploring expedition in the Louisiana purchase.... 106-108 240 cost of 20 Exemption of homestead from debt.. 350 F. "Fire lands", Connecticut, in Ohio...... Florida, East and West, province of, purchase of, from Spain by United States.. cost and area of purchase... 82 108 120 boundaries of the Floridas.. decisions of court explaining treaty, authorities referred settlements in, under armed occupation act, and area taken British Province of West...... Florida, State of, population at periods, Territorial organization, constitutional Canadian land system, small number of.. France, cession of Province of Louisiana to Spain by. lands acquired from, by purchase and treaty.. Louisiana purchase of 1803 from, private land grants or claims under... inhabitants of Galliopolis, grant and confirmation of lands to..... 119 120 295 88 433 503 501 90 Geological surveys under the General Land Office, date and number of. 180 53 executive recommendations as to seat of...... 309 320 56 462 Government of the Territories, form of...... 416, 418, 452 .51, 52, 467 30,31 to States of a portion of the net proceeds from sales of the public lands, 238 land, by former sovereigns, private land claims, origin and nature, full 365 370 Great Britain, treaty with, 1783, private land claims under......... H. Hamilton, Alexander, Secretary of the Treasury, plan for the disposition of the Hidalgo, Guadalupe, treaty of cession from Mexico, 1848.. private land claims under. 198 .126, 132 Historical and statistical table of the United States and Territories; civil divis- Homesteads, Indian .... Homestead, several acts, sketch of history of, origin of law congressional action on Mr. Grow's amendment for. bill No. 72, H. R., February 1, 1859...... vote upon passage of, in House.... 377 28, 29 .242, 243 332 333 333 334 335 336 336 bill of March 6, 1860; Mr. Lovejoy's report Page. Homestead, the bill as passed 340 veto of, by President Buchanan bill of July 8, 1861, Mr. Aldrich's, sent to committee, reported back, 342 total number of entries under, to June 30, 1880, tables, &c.... 350 361 Idaho, the Territory of, population at periods, when organized, legislation as to canals in, lands granted for grant to, for a railroad amendments to the State constitution relating to.. Indian homestead acts and amendments... pueblos in New Mexico, number and names of titles to public lands, cost of quieting.. reservations from the public domain 456 425 257 261 262 264 265 255 259 349 242 404 20 240 area, number, and location of, by States and Territories.... 244 extinguishing Indian title to lands 240 how abolished, procedure 243 tribes not to be hereafter recognized as independent nations... 244 tribes in Indian Territory, lands held by 459 treaties, relating to Indian Territory, constitutional conventions in.. .459, 460 Indiana, State of, population at periods, Territorial organization of, sketch of |