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 diposition 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 Public Land Commission, Committee on Codification

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Donaldson, Thomas, 1843-1898.

Contributor:

United States. Public Land Commission (1879-1880).

Series:

[United States]. 47th Congress, 2nd session. House. Mis. doc. ; no. 45, pt. 4

Mis. doc. ; no. 45, pt. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 1,343 p. [19] folded leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, forms ; 24 cm.

Edition:

[3rd ed.].

Place of Publication:

Washington : G.P.O., 1884.

Notes:

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 diposition of the public domain to June 30, 1880.

Revised July 16, 1881; revision and addenda to June 30 and December 1, 1883, prepared in pursuance of a joint resolution of Congress approved August 7, 1882.

Includes index.