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XIV
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
Pre-emption entries 721,146.26
Desert lands 108,560.02
Mineral lands 27,179.68
Coal lands 4,975.58
Excesses 12,339.06
Abandoned military reservations 1,910.21
Total cash sales 1,587,617.24
Homestead entries 5,028,100.69
Timber-culture entries 1,763,799.35
Military-warrant localities 55,662.36
Agricultural College scrip locations 360.00
Supreme Court scrip locations 28,253.74
Valentine scrip locations 392.15
Sioux half-breed scrip locations 2,519.27
Chippewa half-breed scrip locations 800.00
Porterfield scrip locations 16.86

Lands certified or patented for railroad purposes to States.

Alabama 383.23
Iowa 73,321.58
Minnesota 483,466.63
Kansas 281,277.28
To corporations:
Pacific railroads 211,992.04
State selections approved for—
School idemnity 15,880.00
Internal improvements 1,760.00
Agricultural colleges 1,370,45
Seminaries 3,964.14
Donation claims 18,237.06
Swamp 569,001.18
Grand total 10,128,175.25

The cash receipts from all sources, sales, fees, and commissions, for the last fiscal year amounted to $4,402,112.53.

The total area of the land States and Territories is 1,814,788,922 acres, of which 784,906,980 acres have been surveyed.

The area of lands surveyed the last fiscal year was greater by 6,058,759 acres than that of the previous year.

The area of public lands disposed of the last fiscal year was less by 3,898,974.60 acres than that of the previous year; the aggregate cash receipts were greater by $2,508,642.56.

Besides these public lands, there were disposed of during the last fiscal year by the General Land Office, Indian lands amounting to 765,221.80 acres, for which was received the sum of $1,006,691.63, deposited in the Treasury for the benefit of the Indians.