P A P E R S ACCOMPNAYING
THE REPORT OF SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND-
OFFICE.
Department of the Interior
General Land-Office, October 20, 1873.
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following as an abstract of my annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873, viz:
| Acres | |
| Disposal of public lands by ordinary cash sales. | 1,626,266.03 |
| Military bounty-land. warrant, loontions under sots of 1847,1850,1852,and 1855 | 214,940.00 |
| Homestead entries | 3,793,612.52 |
| Agricultural college sorip locations | 653446.41 |
| Certified to railroads | 6,083,536.57 |
| Certified for wagon-roads | 76,576.82 |
| Lands approved to the States as swamp | 238,548.65 |
| Certified for agricultural colleges | 10,223.29 |
| Certified for common schools | 76,909.17 |
| Certified for universities | 51,228.69 |
| Certified for seminaries | 320.00 |
| Internal improvement selections approved to States | 190,775.76 |
| Sioux half-breed scrip locations | 7,515.47 |
| Chippewa half-breed scrip locations | 6,707.49 |
| Total | 13,030,606.87 |
| Disposals of previous year | 11,864,975.64 |
| Increased disposal | 1,165,631.23 |
| Cash receipts under various heads | $3,408,515.50 |
| Total area of the land States and Territories | 1,834,998,400 |
| Surveyed within the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873 | 30,488,132 |
| Previously surveyed | 586,066,763 |
| Total surveyed to June 30, 1873 | 616,554,895 |
| Leaving yet to be surveyed | 1,218,443,605 |
List of papers composing the annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office.
1. Surveys of public lands, showing the progress made at the close of the last fiscal year, giving a statement of appropriations made for the surveying service during the same time, and submitting estimates for said service during the present fiscal year.
2. Surveys of Indian reservations.
3. Statement of progress of surveys on State and territorial boundaries.
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