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American State Papers [Public Lands: Volume 5] : Index
INDEX TO PUBLIC LANDS. VOLUME V.

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PART I.
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR REFERENCES, EXCEPT TO NAMES OF CLAIMANTS.

PART II.
PARTICULAR REFERENCES TO PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS.

PART I.


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Receipts into the treasury for same ... 450

Quantity from which Indian titles have been extinguished, &c ... 450


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Instructions to land office in Arkansas relative to claims to donations of ... 625

Report of commissioners on same ... 54

At Sault de Saint Marie district ... 54

On back concessions at the Straits of Detroit ... 98

Between Grosse and Milk River Points ... 130

Unsettled land claims in Territory of Michigan ... 146

Supplementary report on claim of native inhabitants of Michigan ... 203

Within the county of Michilimackinac ... 220

At the Sault de Saint Marie, county of Michilimackinac ... 253

Statement of United States officers at port of Sault de Saint Marie ... 269

At Prairie des Chiens ... 270

At Green Bay ... 285

At Green Bay not confirmed ... 295

Titles at Prairie des Chiens ... 303

Instructions to agent to receive claims at Green Bay and Prairie des Chiens ... 306

List of land claims at Prairie des Chiens ... 308

List of land claims not confirmed ... 313


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On Judiciary, with list of officers and soldiers of the revolution entitled to bounty land ... 360

On Judiciary on official conduct of Thomas A. Smith, receiver of public moneys at Franklin, Missouri ... 529

On Judiciary on petition of Thomas L. Winthrop and others, or New England Mississippi Land Company ... 597

On Judiciary on pre-emption right of William Connor, the husband of an Indian woman of Delaware tribe of Indians ... 605

On Judiciary on indemnification for loss of certificates for land in the Georgia company's purchase, &c., of ... 629

On Private Land Claims relative to making provision for the trial and decision upon claims to land in the several States and Territories ... 350

On Private Land Claims adverse to grant by Cherokee Indians to the Double Head Company ... 530

On Private Land Claims on the claim of Isidore Moore under the Spanish government ... 608


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On Private Land Claims on petition to refund money paid for land held under a Spanish grant ... 623

On Public Lands adverse to sale of school lands in Missouri ... 473

On Public Lands relative to land claims in Florida, of 3,500 acres and under, and extension of time for settlement ... 474

On Public Lands adverse to correction of error in survey of public lands after the issue of patent ... 474

On Public Lands on pre-emption claim of John Duly, of ... 595

Of Committee on Indian Affairs on refunding to North Carolina money paid to the Cherokees for certain reservations of land ... 391

On claims to Chippewa Indians' reservations omitted in treaty ... 450

Of Committee on Judiciary on claim of Rebecca Blodget for right of dower to land in the District of Columbia, of ... 471

Of Committee on Private Land Claims of John Brest ... 7

On private land claim of heirs of Andrew Trumbull ... 13

On private land claim of Alexander Chevalier Delatroussaye, deceased ... 35

On private land claim of Mary Loveless and Mary Ann Bond ... 342

On private land claim of J. F. Carmichael, of Mississippi ... 345

On Private Land Claims on petition of Dr. John Love ... 349

On Private Land Claims on invalidity of second warrant for land, the first having been sold, located, and patented ... 349

On Private Land Claims on petition of James Winter, of Louisiana, of ... 355

On Private Land Claims on petition of Pedro, Salvador, and Joseph Gonzales ... 387

On private land claims of James Steptoe and others ... 387

On Private Land Claims on claims in Illinois, of ... 432

On Private Land Claims on claim of Thomas B. Magruder ... 456

On Private Land Claims adverse to granting bounty land to a deserter from the army ... 476

On location of Virginia military land warrants ... 491

On petition of James Russell for indemnity for land taken from him for the Cherokee Indians ... 491

On petition of Jeremiah Walker ... 492

On claim of Allen B. McAlhany for military bounty land ... 516

On refusing to allow the location of a land claim in more than one tract ... 586

Relative to vesting school lands in a board of trustees in St. Louis, Missouri ... 587

On claim of Peter P. McCormick for land under settlement and cultivation ... 587

On claim of heirs of John Ellis under Spanish grant ... 592

On claim of John Thompson under Spanish government ... 600

On claim of George P, Frost for revolutionary bounty land ... 600

On claim of John Brest under Spanish government ... 601

On claim of Susanna McHugh for donation of land ... 602

On petition of James Young for revolutionary bounty land ... 608

On claim of Henry Case for correction of error, (adverse) ... 610

Relative to lands located under Virginia military bounty land warrants between Roberts's and Ludlow's lines, Ohio ... 777

On remission of forfeitures of partial payments by purchasers of ... 12

On private land claims in Michigan ... 47

On Appointment of surveyor for Virginia military lands in Ohio ... 342

On reserved lands for seats of justice and exchange of school land, Florida ... 354

On correction of error in bidding for land at public sale ... 355

On a plan to prevent fraudulent combinations at the resale of relinquished lands, and to authorize their entry at fixed rates ... 376

On pre-emption rights in the Choctaw district in Mississippi ... 400

On application for lands for schools in Connecticut reserve, in Ohio ... 431

In relation to sale of lead mines Missouri ... 431

On the Marquis de Maison Rouge claim in Louisiana ... 442

Relative to land for colleges in Ohio ... 443

Relative to reduction and graduation of price of public lands ... 447

Relative to grant of land to Ohio for canals ... 455

On petition of Robert L. Kennon for indemnification for deficiency in quantity of land purchased ... 473

On pre-emption rights in Michigan and Indiana ... 473

On petition of Hannah Drayton and others, heirs of William Drayton ... 478

Adverse to grant of land to Kenyon College, Ohio ... 525

Relative to error in relinquishment of quarter section of land by Elijah Carr. ... 581

On granting pre-emption rights to certain persons in Florida ... 583

On claim for land purchased from the Indians, &c., by Hyacinth Bernard ... 593

On claim of Marcellin Bonnabel under Spanish government ... 594

On c]aim of John Duly for pre-emption right ... 595

On claim of Ebenezer Cooley under Spanish government ... 601

On petition of citizens of Michigan for land for a poor-house ... 607

On claim of Minor Thomas to locate a Canadian bounty land warrant ... 609

On claim of certain persons in Michigan to land for habitation and cultivation ... 609

Confirming Cherokee Indian reservation, &c. ... 611

On application for a grant of land for Cumberland hospital at Smithland ... 612

Relative to remission of price of land above the minimum value ... 613

Relative to indemnity for defect in title of land sold by the United States ... 621

On claim for remission of part of the price for land purchased in Alabama ... 623


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Relative to error in patent for bounty land to A. Cunningham ... 630

On claim of Josiah Barker, of Louisiana ... 776

On application of the legislature of Louisiana for cession of public lands and donations for a canal in that State ... 792


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Reorganization of surveying department south of ... 433

Statement of the quantity and quality of vacant land in ... 510

Operation of the graduating system of the prices of public lands in ... 514

In East Florida. Resolutions of claimants relative to land ... 477

Of land sold by the United States. Report of committee of House of Representatives relative to indemnities for defect in ... 621

In Florida, and other territories of France and Spain. Ordinances of Spain and France affecting land ... 631

List of the shareholders in the ... 25, 466

On sale of lands reserved for salines in Illinois. Report of the Secretary of the ... 28

On land claims in Territory of Michigan. Report of the Secretary of the ... 47

Relating to fraudulent combinations at resale of relinquished public lands, &c. Report of the Secretary of the ... 379

Relating to vacant and uncultivated lands in Tennessee. Report of Secretary of the ... 395

Relative to sale of relinquished lands to original purchasers. Report of the Secretary of the ... 398

With report and decisions upon private land claim in East Florida. Report of the Secretary of the ... 402

Relative to reorganization of the surveying department in the district south of Tennessee. Report of the Secretary of the ... 433

Relative to condition of office of surveyor of the public land in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. Report of the Secretary of the ... 462

Relative to grants made to French emigrants for cultivation of the vine and olive.

Report of the Secretary of the ... 466

Relative to location of land granted to the Kentucky Asylum for the deaf and dumb.

Report of the Secretary of the ... 478

With reports upon land claims in the district of St. Stephen's, Alabama. Report of the Secretary of the ... 493

With accounts and transactions of Thomas A. Smith, receiver of public moneys at land office at Franklin, Missouri. Report of the Secretary of the ... 516

With names and compensation of examiners of land offices. Report of the Secretary of the ... 521

With statement of public lands which have been in market from five to twenty years and remain unsold. Report of the Secretary of the ... 526

Approving conduct of Thomas A. Smith, receiver at Franklin, Missouri. Report of the Secretary of the ... 530

Relative to quantity and quality of inundated public lands in Louisiana, the cost of reclaiming them, and their value when reclaimed. Report of the Secretary of the ... 614

Relative to instructions to land officers in Arkansas on claim to donations of land.

Report of the Secretary of the ... 625

Relative to cost of surveying, selling, and managing the public lands in 1827. Report of the Secretary of the ... 188


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With list of persons entitled to reservations of land under Cherokee treaty of 27th February, 1819. Report of Secretary of ... 396

With expenses and product of land reserved for lead mines in Missouri. Report of the Secretary of ... 522

Relative to lead mines in Missouri and Illinois in 1828. Report of Secretary of ... 589

For land, the first having been sold, located, and patented. Invalidity of the second ... 349

Issued for officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army unclaimed. List of ... 361

On location of Virginia military bounty land ... 491

Issued in year to 30th September, 1828. Number of bounty land ... 533

Report of committee of House of Representatives on location of a Canadian bounty land ... 609

Explanatory of the compilation of ordinances, laws, and regulations of France and Spain affecting grants and land titles in Florida and Louisiana. Letter of Joseph M. ... 631