Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . hem by special acts. It is estimated that the area of public lands now remaining isabout 1,800,000,000 acres. Taking out of this estimate the landsheld for Indian and military reservations, the unexplored lands inAlaska, and all lands unsurveyed, etc., there will yet remain, inround numbers, some 650,000,000 acres to be disposed of by thegovernment, nearly all of which can be acqu
Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . hem by special acts. It is estimated that the area of public lands now remaining isabout 1,800,000,000 acres. Taking out of this estimate the landsheld for Indian and military reservations, the unexplored lands inAlaska, and all lands unsurveyed, etc., there will yet remain, inround numbers, some 650,000,000 acres to be disposed of by thegovernment, nearly all of which can be acquired by citizens of theUnited States by actual settlement and cultivation. The lands arelocated in the states of Ohio, California, Arkansas, Alabama, Colo-rado, Florida, Louisiana, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana,Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin, Nevada, Missouri, Nebraska, andMississippi, and in all the territories. Any citizen of the UnitedStates is entitled under the homestead laws to enter one hundred andsixty acres of these lands wherever unappropriated. In six monthsfrom the date of entry he must pay $16 in fees and commissions tothe land office, and must live on the land and cultivate it for five. >S«k. =L SOUTH HALL, MUSEUM OF MODELS, PATENT OFFICE. 222 PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. continuous years. Then, upon proof of residence and-cultivation, apatent is issued, and he becomes the owner of the land. The soldiersand sailors of the Civil War who enter homestead lands have theperiod of their service in the army and navy deducted from the fiveyears residence, provided they live on and cultivate the land for oneyear. Under the preemption laws it is necessary to live for oneyear on the land preempted, at the expiration of which time the landcan be purchased for $ per acre, if outside of railroad limits, andfor $ per acre if within railroad limits. There are other ways ofacquiring lands under the timber culture laws and the desert land to the present time
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