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<dl><dd>403 pages ; 23 cm</dd>
<dd>Letter of the Commissioner, transmitting his annual report...containing a review of the land system...and recommending legislation in regard to reorganization and increase of the clerical force -- Necessity of a complete law library -- Judicial tribunal and codification and revision of the laws relating to public lands -- Correction of errors in compilation of Revised Statutes -- Overpayment of illegal exactions -- Cases of deposit by settlers -- Decisions in land cases -- Act March 3, 1875, error in description -- Authority to issue commissions -- Issue of patents for lands located under sixth section of act of June 22, 1860 -- Consolidation of all the offices of the surveyors general -- Abolition of the contract system of surveying -- Appointments of one surveyor general of the United States with authority to appoint assistants</dd>
<dd>Survey of islands and beds of meandered lakes, sloughs, and ponds -- Lapsed railroad grants -- Survey appraisal, and sale of lands valuable only for the pine and other timber -- Settlement of private land claims -- Abolition of the fee system in district land offices -- Direct appropriations for salaries -- Extension of act of March 7, 1877 -- Recommends legislation in regard to the pre-emption, homestead, timber, and desert land laws -- Operations under the laws of governing the survey and disposal of public lands</dd>
<dd>Chiefly tables</dd></dl><br>Subjects: United States. General Land Office; United States. General Land Office -- Appropriations and expenditures; United States. General Land Office; Public lands -- United States; Expenditures, Public; Politics and government; Public lands; Statistics; Surveys; United States -- Surveys -- Statistics; United States -- Politics and government; United States</div>
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