Matthews Guide For Settlers Upon The Public Lands Land Attorneys Land Agents Clerks Of Courts Notaries Bankers Brokers And All Persons Interested In The Public Lands Of The United State And Having Business Before The District Land Ofices The

Author : William B. Matthews
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ISBN 13 : 9781332155347
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book Matthew's Guide written by William B. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Matthew's Guide: For Settlers Upon the Public Lands, Land Attorneys, Land Agents, Clerks of Courts, Notaries, Bankers, Brokers and All Persons Interested in the Public Lands of the United State and Having Business Before the District Land Offices, the General Land Office The public domain or public land of the United States is embraced within its national domain. The national domain, as established by certain treaties with foreign powers, is "the total area of land and water included within the boundaries of the United States," and is estimated by official authorities at 3,581,389 square miles, or 2,292,088,960 acres, constituting an empire in extent and national resources greater than that of Alexander's or that of ancient Rome, neither of which it is estimated exceeded 3,000,000 square miles. The original area of the United States, as defined at the close of the Revolution of 1776 by the treaties with Great Britain of 1782-'83, acknowledging our independence as a nation and defining the boundaries of the confederacy, extended from the Atlantic ocean on the cast to the Mississippi river on the west, and from the St. Lawrence river and the Great Lakes and their water connections on the north to the 31st parallel of north latitude, or the northern boundaries of the Floridas, on the south. It embraced 827,856 square miles, or 529,827,840 acres, and in 1790 supported a population of 3,637,881, which in 1860 had increased to 14,800,090, and in 1880 to 20,057,808. (See tables below; also map.) During the administration of President Thomas Jefferson France, by the treaty of April 30, 1803, ceded to the United States the province of Louisiana, or, as it is generally known, the "Louisiana purchase," with an area of 926,149 square miles, or 592,735,360 acres. (See tables below; also map.) Its cost to the United States is estimated at $27,267,621.98. In reference to the acquisition of Oregon Mr. McMasters, in his History of the United States, one of the latest authorities on the subject, maintains that it formed no part of the so-called "Louisiana purchase." He urges: "By Oregon was meant what is now included in the State of Oregon, the Territories of Washington and Idaho, and so much of British America as lies between the Rocky mountains, the parallel of 54 50' and the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."