The world: historical and actual . s and receivers attend to the business incident tosuch conveyance. A section is the unit of measure-ment. It contains 640 acres, or a mile square, andthirty-six sections make a township. Ever since theorganization of the first territory, the Northwest Ter-ritory, the government has set aside one section ineach township for the support of public schools, The original policy of the government was to sellthe public land, and that in large quantities it adoptee; the plan of encouraging pur-chases by actual settlers. This pioneer policy wassupplemented
The world: historical and actual . s and receivers attend to the business incident tosuch conveyance. A section is the unit of measure-ment. It contains 640 acres, or a mile square, andthirty-six sections make a township. Ever since theorganization of the first territory, the Northwest Ter-ritory, the government has set aside one section ineach township for the support of public schools, The original policy of the government was to sellthe public land, and that in large quantities it adoptee; the plan of encouraging pur-chases by actual settlers. This pioneer policy wassupplemented in 1862 by the homestead act, underwhich the actual settler can, by the payment of feeshardly adequate to pay the cost to the government ofdoing the business, secure a farm, only he must re-side on it long enough to give assurance of goodfaith. If the homesteader served in the Federalarmy and was honorably discharged, the time spentin the service will reduce that much the time re-quired to perfect a homestead title. The period re-. AVENUE, WASHINGTON. iiFy jfc 578 GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. quired is five years, and the amount; of land thatcan be taken up in that way is 160 acres, or a quar-ter-section. Public land can also be secured by pre-emption, or purchase, the price varying from $ $ per acre. All lgtters patent designed to stimulate inventionand secure to the in-ventor his right of prop-erty therein, are issuedby the Patent office,which is a bureau ofthe Interior Depart-ment. Patents aregranted for seventeenyears, and cannot berenewed. It is oftendifficult to determinewhether an applicationfor a patent should begranted or denied, andmuch litigation s;rowsout of this branch of the government. The census istaken by the Interior Department. The originalidea of a census was simply the ascertainment oncein ten years of the actual population of the country,with the details of locality, with a view to determin-ing the apportionment of members of th
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