Biennial Report of the Auditor of State, and Register of State Land Office, for Fiscal Years ..., Volume 2

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The Auditor, 1880

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Page xiii - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page xii - Amounts available to the departments and agencies from appropriations and other funds are hereby reduced in the sums hereinafter set forth, such sums to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury...
Page xii - Treasury to continue to receive, examine, and consider the justice and validity of all claims under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of said section that may be brought before them within a period of five years.
Page xii - One of them is a claim, in which the "amount due" is to be reported, under the provisions of the act of June 14, 1878 (20 Stats., 130), "to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall lay the same before Congress for consideration." The Commissioner states that there is reason to believe that Sanboru is justly indebted to the United States...
Page xii - Fifth, That five per centum of the net proceeds of sales of all public lands lying within said State which shall be sold by Congress after the admission of said State into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to said State for the purpose of making public roads and internal improvements, or for other purposes, as the Legislature shall direct...
Page xii - shall cause all unexpended balances of appropriations which shall have remained upon the hooks of the Treasury for two fiscal years to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury...
Page ix - SIR: I have the honor to submit the following as the report of this office for the fiscal year...
Page 277 - Jan. 1, 1869 To aid in the completion of the east wing of the Capitol, approved March 3, 1869 80 1 1,000 00 1 000 00 80,000 00 1 000 00 7 per cent.
Page xii - Congress to construe the 5 per cent, clanse to be applicable only to lands to which the Indian title had been extinguished prior to the admission of the State. " The amount ascertained to be due to the State of Kansas on the account under examination will therefore be reported to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page xi - Kansas for school lands due the said State from the United States; also, to prosecute the claims of the State of Kansas against the United States for...

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