Book/Printed Material Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, on the subject of frauds by floats in the purchase of public lands. February 11, 1837. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 24th Congress 2d Session 168 1 REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY In compliance with a resolution of the Senate on the subject of Frauds by Floats in the purchase of…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 possession obtained through any agent specially deputed to investi gate the frauds by float or otherwise supposed to have been prac tised in the purchase of public lands in the State of…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 168 J from ignorance of the law or from the little value which they attached to the land on which they had temporarily settled would not have avail ed themselves of a…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 4 168 cording to the requisites stated in said act and by subsequent acts con tinuing in force the act of 1830 a new era w r as introduced on the subject…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 5 t 168 are precisely in the situation above detailed I am authorized to name Colonel Robert A Crane of Louisiana who states positively he knows many of them to be founded…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 108 C the above period that the said board of commissioners have the power to administer an oath to all persons who may appear before them desiring to make entries of land…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 7 r 68 i cases which have been admitted propounding in each case interroga tories to be furnished by this office and that all claims not fully sustained under this revision be…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 8 I qulred under their provisions to 160 acres would of themselves pre clude any such construction and I am at a loss to conceive how the land officers could so far…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 9 1 general as to render it impracticable for the Department to give you specific instructions as to the course of proceedings which ought to govern your conduct in all cases Such…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 V YY 168 10 cated claims Have any impositions of such fabricated claims been made or attempted on the land officers It will be necessary by a circumspect course of observation and…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 11 1G8 J cate the entry made under the float by noting the number of the registers certificate issued thus Preemption act of June 19 1834 Float to A BCertificate No Float…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 12 168 J portant facts to be there obtained to satisfy your own judgment in view of the special objects of your mission I am c ETHAN A BROWN Commissioner V M…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 13 168 I Interrogatory 3Can an individual be twice entitled to preemption rights at different periods when he could prove the second time that his misfortunes had deprived him of the advantage…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 14 As the river Ohio must now be in boatable condition as you suggest it will be more advisable for you to take the route down the Mississippi than coastwise In that…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 15 168 themselves as you proceed and which as to the length of time they may occupy cannot enter into present calculation I am c ETHAN A BROWN Commissioner V M Garesche…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 16 168 guage of the law which right has been misnamed a float is in tended by the law to be exercised and secured at the time of the entry of the…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 v 108 J AVIS SU LES TEHEES PUBLIQUES Un domicilie settler series terres publiques qui aura de fait cultive un tract de ces terres ouune partie dun tract dans Pannee 1833 et…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 168 18 out reside au 19 Juin 1834 ay ant dans la dite culture des interets dis tinets et separfs Par le tenne tract de terre la loi entend un quart de…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 19 168 eluding the tract or tracts on which the right of preemption is claimed nor shall the right of preemption contemplated by this act extend to any land which is reserved…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 20 108 You are also required to state at the close of the list the names of the parties claiming to locate floating rights so called thus List of the names of…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 21 168 nieation that I know of or if there should be it must be a very circuit ous one except by watpr and that from New Orleans It will be made…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 I 168 J 22 of course very strongand their liabilities I believe are not now in proportion to the trust I remain very respectfully sir Your obedient servant V M GARESCHE Ethan…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 23 168 of establishing a court of inquiry and revisal little as I could do still that little might he followed up but it should be done during the pres ent session…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 24 16S your circular to registers c dated July 22d 1834 I find a clause that would apply favorably to Mr Milligans claims I have no communication from you to answer Any…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 tions in hopes of detecting frauds it was but little additional labor to confront them with the bookis The errors that were discovered were duly rectified this was done during the intervals…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 26 168 York for the purpose and hare an agent who is continually scouring the country A second agent from the same quarter has lately arrived with power to draw to any…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 27 f 168 when the concession or tract of land has become the property of several they often disagree some wishing to procure what the law allows them and the others refusing…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 r 168 j 28 No 102 is an application signed by Peter Elizer and Milly Elizer No 101 is another signed by Mary Ann Elizer and James Elizer It requires very little…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Image 30 of Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of …
Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 solely from my ignorance of decisions already given and of the grounds on which such decisions were founded This applies to my remarks on the double concession I have found that in…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 168 30 I beg leave to refer you to ray report to the Secretary of the Treasury a copy of which I here subjoin I remain very respectfully sir Your obedient servant…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 31 168 had previously signed the spurious ones but this time the date was cor rect and the bearer was also the same personage whose u floats had been rejected At the…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 32 f 168 of the office from the 15th April last when Mr Barrys left off It would have taken up probably five or six days more but there would have been…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Image 34 of Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of …
Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 33 168 ceived with great caution When I have been consulted on the subject I have always referred tothe Surveyor General as the most competent to decide as to matter of fact…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 168 J 34 No 12 Opelousas La June 9 1836 Sir I enclose you a copy of my report to the Secretary of the Treas ury respecting the alleged frauds committed on…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 35 168 serving the importance which it acquired from the message of Governor White and from the complaints that reached Washington from every sec tion of this State After all the alarm…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 36 168 raised We thought the two tracts had been separated in their action that whilst one had been designated the other became merchandise in the mar ket and was still waiting…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 37 168 1 Many thousand acres of land were sold in this manner which but for that circumstance would never have sold in our lifetime It may therefore be said that the…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 38 168 J the task though hard may be censured with ease As for myself I do not know in what light my statement will be received different as it is from…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168 39 168 No 14 Donaldsonville La June 23 1836 Sir I have the honor of remitting to you a copy of my report to the Secretary of the Treasury of the examination…- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. General Land Office - United States Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1837
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Title
- Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, on the subject of frauds by floats in the purchase of public lands. February 11, 1837. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed
Other Title
- Cited as: S. Doc. 24-168
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- United States Congress. Senate
- United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
- United States. Congress. Senate, author
- United States. Department of the Treasury
- United States. General Land Office
Created / Published
- [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1837.
Headings
- - Land grants
- - Public lands
- - Fraud
- - Governmental investigations
- - Land tenure
- - Land use
- - Pre-emption rights (United States)
- - Public land sales
- - Speculation
- - Witnesses
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- Government publication
- Legislative materials
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- 1 online resource (57 pages). tables. .
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- KF12
- 24-2:S.DOC.168
- Y 1.1/2:298
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