DETAILED STATEMENT. A detailed statement of the work performed in the General Land Office and surveying districts during the year is given under the following heads: 1. B. Recorder's division. 2. C. Public lands division. 3. D. Private land claims division. 4. E. Surveying division. 5. F. Railroad division. 6. G. Pre-emption division. 7. K. Swamp land division. 8. L. Draughting division. 9. M. Accounts division. 10. N. Mineral division. 11. P. Special service division. 12. Report of surveyor general of Arizona. 21. Report of surveyor general of Nebraska and Iowa. 26. Report of surveyor general of Washington. 37 B.-RECORDER'S DIVISION. Work performed in Division B of the General Land Office during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883. Number of letters received.... Number of letters written. Number of pages of record covered by letters written. Circulars sent out.. Copies furnished from patent records. Land warrant assignments approved.. Number of pieces of Virginia military scrip issued calling for 4214 acres.. 14, 447 12 940 8, 120 788 4, 125 252 The following is a statement of the number of acres represented by the warrants located in the several land States and Territories for the year ending June 30, 1883, or not heretofore reported, which warrants were issued under acts of 1847, 1850, 1852, and 1855: *This aggregate is computed at the rate of $1.25 per acre; it does not show the exact area of the lands located with the warrants. The work performed under the several acts of Congress relating to this class of bounty land grants from the commencement of operations to the close of the fiscal year will be found set forth in detail in a tabulated statement accompanying this report, which shows the total number of warrants issued under each act, the amount of land embraced thereby, the whole number returned as located, and the number unlocated and still outstanding, with the amount of land required to satisfy the same. The statement referred to shows that the total number of military bounty land warrants of all denominations issued under all of said acts up to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, is 551,426, embracing 61,064,150 acres. Of said number, 530,203, covering 58,652,450 acres, have been returned as located, leaving still outstanding and unsatisfied 21,223, calling for 2,411,700 acres. During the past fiscal year 787 old suspended warrant locations were relieved and passed for patenting, or disposed of by the cancellation of the same. STATEMENT SHOWING THE OPERATIONS OF THIS DIVISION IN RELATION TO REVOLUTIONARY BOUNTY LAND AND AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE SCRIP, WAR OF 1812 WARRANTS ISSUED UNDER ACT OF CONGRESS OF JULY 27, 1842, PORTERFIELD WARRANTS UNDER SPECIAL ACT OF APRIL 11, 1860, AND MATTERS AFFECTING LANDS IN THE VIRGINIA MILITARY DISTRICT, OHIO, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1883. Revolutionary bounty land scrip, act of August 31, 1852, and declaratory act of June 22, 1860, founded on Virginia land warrants. At the date of the last annual report, 309 applications for scrip founded on this class of warrants were pending, the aggregate amount of land called for thereby being 96,672 acres. Six claims calling for 7,166 acres have since been filed and two for 421 acres satisfied, leaving 313 claims, representing 103,417 acres, still outstanding and unsatisfied. One of the subsisting claims, representing 5,8334 acres, has been rejected, but an appeal to the honorable Secretary of the Interior is now pending therein. The opinion of this office, heretofore expressed in several of its annual reports, that a large majority of this class of claims could not be legally satisfied as to the "present proprietorship" thereof, has been confirmed by the experience of the last few years. Only a small per centum thereof has been satisfied, and this ratio must decrease through lapse of time and the consequent increasing difficulty in the establishment of proper title thereto. Thirteen certificates, the cash value of which is $1,184.90, have been received in payment for public lands. Every perfected case has been satisfied. Porterfield warrants, special act approved April 11, 1860. Two warrants of this class, for 40 acres each, have been carried into patent. Of the one hundred and fifty-three warrants, for 6,133 acres, |