Box 1
Contains 222 Results:
Reports Regarding the Purchase, Sale and Donation of Public Land, 1832
Report as to the quantity of public lands unsold; the quantity granted for internal improvements, education, and to charitable institutions; the amount paid for title to public lands; the expenses incurred in the sale of the pubic lands, and in settling titles of claimants, and the amount received for lands sold. [Washington, D.C.] 4 p.
With table of funds by state/territory and type of expense
Caption title: Public Land--Purchased--Sold--Donations of, etc.
Petition of Residents of the City of New York, 1832
New York--Inhabitants Of--Lien of Judgments Upon Land... The Petition of the undersigned residents of the city of New York. [Washington, D.C.] 1832.
Signed in type by 75 property owners in NYC
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Message From The President Concerning The Public Lands, 1832
Message from the President of the United States in Compliance with a resolution of the Senate concerning the Public Lands, etc. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 6 p.
How much government land has been sold, how much is still unsold, how much was formerly Indian land, how much money was paid to other countries to settle land claims, and the total expense of administering the land.
Signed in type by Andrew Jackson on p.1.
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Reports on the Propriety of Disposing of Public Lands, 1832
Reports made to the Senate and to the House of Representatives, by committees of those houses, on the propriety of Disposing of the Public Lands to those states in which they lie. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 32 p.
Extensive data and reports
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Signature of H.D. Gilpin on top of page 1.
Report relating to Donations of Public Lands, 1832
Report from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, reating to donations of the public lands of the United States, to States, Territories, corporate bodies, individuals, etc. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 2 p.
Table
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Report on Proceeds of the Sales of Public Lands, 1832
In Senate of the United States. May 18, 1832...Mr. King made the following Report: [Washington, D.C.] 1832 20 p.
Part of a debate over to what extent the Federal Government and states (old vs. new) would benefit from the proceeds obtained from the sale of public lands.
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Report on the Resolutions of the Legislature of Indiana, 1832
Report from the Committee on Public Lands, on the resolutions of the Legislature of Indiana, concerning certain reservations of Public Land, etc. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 7 p.
Arcane debate about a specific piece of land in Indiana
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Thirty-One Inhabitants of Old Mines, Missouri, 1832
Missouri--Thirty-One Inhabitants of the Old Mines [To Accompany bill H.R. No.380. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 2 p.
Conflict over claims for this tract of land in Missouri.
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Report Relative to the Manner of Calculating Nett Proceeds of Sales of Public Lands, 1832
Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, relative to the manner of calculating the nett proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 2 p.
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Petition of Thomas L. Winthop, 1832
Mr. Hayne made the following Report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom as referred the petition of Thimas L. Winthop and others. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 7 p.
Part of the protracted struggle going on since 1802, to settle the Yazoo claims
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