States. States. SWAMP LANDS. No. 3.--Statement exhibiting the quantity of land selected for the several States under acts of Congress approved March 2, 1849, September 28, 1850, (Revised Statutes of United States, section 2479,) and March 12, 1860, (Revised Statutes of United States, section 2490,) up to and ending September 30, 1877. No. 4.-Statement exhibiting the quantity of land approved to the several States under acts of Congress approved March 2, 1849, September 28, 1850, (Revised Statutes of United States, section 2479,) and March 12, 1860, (Revised Statutes of United States, section 2490,) and ending September 30, 1877. up to Total since date of grant. No. 5.-Statement exhibiting the quantity of land patented to the several States under the acts of Congress approved September 28, 1850, (Revised Statutes United States, section 2479,) and March 12, 1860, (Revised Statutes United States, section 2490,) and also the quantity certified to the State of Louisiana under act approved March 2, 1849. * 4 880.20 acres of this contained in indemnity patents under act of March 2, 1855. No. 6.-Condition of bounty land business under acts of 1847, 1850, 1852, and 1855, showing the issues and locations with bounty land warrants, and the number outstanding, from the commencement of operations under said acts to June 30, 1877. No. 7.-Statement exhibiting land concessions by acts of Congress to States and corporations for railroads and military wagon road purposes from the year 1850 to June 30, 1877. Missouri Do.. June 10, 1852 10 8 Hannibal and Saint Joseph June 10, 1852 10 8 Do.. Feb. 9, 1853 10 155 Atlantic and Pacific, formerly Pacific and Southwest Branch Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, formerly Cairo and Fulton Saint Louis and Iron Mountain. Burlington and Missouri River.. Resolution extending time for completion of road Do. June 2, 1864 13 98 .do.. 292, 170. 20 96, 646, 55 $422,094. 36 161, 212. 81 §782, 069. 83 358, 423.70 $549, 345. 41 Do June 2, 1864 13 98 Act authorizing the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad to change its line of road. Do. Mar. 2, 1868 15 38 Act extending time for completion of road to January 1, 1872. Iowa May 15, 1856 11 9 Iowa Falls and Sioux City Do May 12, 1864 13 72 McGregor and Missouri River Do May 12, 1864 13 72 Sioux City and Saint Paul. Michigan June 3, 1856 11 21 Detroit and Milwaukee.. Do June 3, 1856 11 21 Port Huron and Milwaukee Do June 3, 1856 11 21 Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Do July 3, 1866 14 78 Act extending the time for completion of road seven years, &c. Do Mar. 2, 1867 14 425 Act extending the time for completion of first twenty miles of road. Do Mar. 3, 1871 16 586 Act authorizing change of northern terminus from Traverse Bay to Straits of Mackinaw, and for other purposes. Do June 3, 1856 11 21 Flint and Pere Marquette 6 and 15 512, 337. 03 Do Feb. 17, 1865 13 569 Resolution extending time for completion of road. Do July 3, 1866 14 78 Act authorizing the company to change its western terminus of road. Do Mar. 3, 1871 16 582 Do June 3, 1856 11 21 Act extending time for completion of road five years. Grand Rapids and Indiana... Do June 7, 1864 13 119 Grand Rapids and Indiana, from Fort Wayne, Ind., to Grand Rapids. Do Mar. 3, 1865 13 521 ..do Do. May 20, 1868 15 252 Do Apr. 20, 1871 17 643 Resolution extending time for completion of road, with certain restrictions. Act authorizing the Houghton and Oatonagon Railroad Company to resurvey and locate anew a part of its road. Do No evidence of the construction of any part of these roads, as required by the acts, having been filed in the General Land Office, the grants are presumed to have lapsed, but the lands have not been restored to the mass of public lands, Congress having taken no action to that end. Eighty miles constructed road before the grant lapsed. Includes 35,685.49 acres of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad; 109,756.85 acres of the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad; and 77,535.22 acres of the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad, situated in the old Des Moines River grant of August, 1846, which amounts are a loss to the roads by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of the Dubuque and Pacific Railroad Company vs. Litchfield, 23 Howard, p. 66. 200 sections 6 and 15 20 |