4. Of pre-emption laws, and rulings under the same, recommending a repeal of the pre-emption laws.
5. Sioux Indian reservation.
6. Cherokee strip in Kansas.
7. Bound Valley Indian reservation in Montana.
8. Homestead law; operations under the same, and recommending amendments.
9. Graduated lands; relief for suspended entries under recent confirmatory act of Congress.
10. Useless military reservations.
11. Offerings of public lands.
12. Educational land bounty.
13. Timber depredations; showing the action of this Office to prevent the same.
14. Railroads; progress of transcontinental lines, and of roads in States and Territories to which subsidies in land have been granted.
15. Operations under the mining laws.
16. Goal lands; rules and regulations under the act March 3, 1873.
17. Private land claims.
18. List of surveyors-general and land-offices.
19. Reports of the surveyors-general, from A to Q.
Tabular statements accompanying Commissioners annual report.
No. 1. Tabular statements showing the number of acres of public land surveyed in the States and Territories at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873; also the total area of the public lands remaining unsurveyed at that date.
No. 2. Statement of public lands sold; of cash and bounty-land scrip received therefor; number of acres entered under the homestead law of May 20, 1862; of commissions received under the sixth section of said act; also, land located with scrip under the agricultural college and mechanic act of July 2, 1862, and commissions received by registers and receivers on the value thereof; and statement of incidental expenses thereon in the first half of the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1872, and ending June 30, 1873.
No. 3. Statement showing like particulars for the second half of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873.
No. 4. Summary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873, showing the number of acres disposed of for cash; for bounty-land scrip; by entry under the homestead laws of May 20 1862, March 21, 1864, and June 21, 1866, with aggregate of $5 and $10 homestead payments; homestead commissions; also, locations with agricultural college and mechanic scrip under act of July 2, 1862.
No. 5. Statement showing the quantity of swamp lands selected for the several States under acts of Congress approved March 2, 1849, September 28, 1850, and March 12, 1860, to September 30, 1873.
No. 6. Statement exhibiting the quantity of swamp land approved to the several States under acts named in table No. 5 to September 30, 1873.
No. 7. Statement exhibiting the quantity of swamp land patented to the several States under acts approved September 28, 1850, and March 12, 1860- also, the quantity certified to the State of Louisiana under act approved March 2, 1849.
No. 8. Statement showing the State selections under the internal improvement grant of September 4, 1841, to the 30th June, 1873.
No. 9. Exhibit of bounty-land warrant business under acts of 1847,
