The public domain : its history, with statistics, with references to the national domain, colonization, acquirement of territory, the survey, administration and several methods of sale and disposition of the public domain of the United States, with sketch of legislative history of the land states and territories, and references to the land system of the colonies, and also that of several foreign governments. / by Thomas Donaldson.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Donaldson, Thomas, 1843-1898.

Contributor:

United States. Public Land Commission (1879-1880)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public lands--United States.

Public lands.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 516 pages, 1 leaf, 517-1343 pages : folded maps, folded plans ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Govt. print. off., 1884.

Notes:

Public land commission. Committee on codification. Prepared, in pursuance of the acts of Congress of March 3, 1879, and June 16, 1880, by Thomas Donaldson of the commission and committee, and giving the result of the several land laws for the sale and disposition of the public domain to June 30, 1880. Revised July 16, 1881, Addenda to June 30 and December 1, 1883--Pages 517 to 1302. All forms and regulations to December 1, 1883. Revision and addenda to June 30 and December 1, 1883, prepared in pursuance of a joint resolution of Congress approved August 7, 1882.

Issued also in the Congressional series as House misc. doc. 45, pt. 4, 47th Cong., 2d sess., and also in an "Author's edition".

OCLC:

48635556