The public domain. Its history, with statistics, with references to the national domain, colonization, acquirement of territory, the survey, administration and several methods of sale and disposition of the public domain of the United States, with sketch of legislative history of the land states and territories, and references to the land system of the colonies, and also that of several foreign governments. Public Land Commission. Committee on Codification. Prepared, in pursuance of the Acts of Congress of March 3, 1879, and June 16, 1880. By Thomas Donaldson, of the commission and committee, and giving the result of the several land laws for the sale and disposition of the public domain to June 30, 1880

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by United States. Public Land Commission