History of Public Land Law Development / Paul W. Gates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gates, Paul W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public lands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (828 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Office, 1968.

Contents:

Whose public lands?

Colonial land systems

State cessions of western land claims

Land ordinance of 1785

Acquisition of the public domain

Private land claims

Credit sales experiment, 1800-1820

Cash sales, 1820-1840

Cash sales, 1840-1862

Preemption

Military bounty land policies

Grants to states on admission to union

General grants to states

Land grants for railroads and internal improvements

Homesteading, 1862-1882

An incongruous land system

Use and abuse of settlement laws, 1880-1904

Dry farming and stock raising homesteads, 1904-1934

Early efforts to protect public timberlands

Administration of the public of forest lands

Administration of public grazing lands

Legal aspects of mineral resources exploitation.

Notes:

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