The American Settler's Guide

THE

AMERICAN SETTLER'S GUIDE:

A POPULAR EXPOSITION

OF THE

PUBLIC LAND SYSTEM

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

BY

HENRY N. COPP.
Editor of Copp's Public Land Laws, U. S. Mining Decisions, U. S. Mineral Lands, Hand-Book

of Mining Law, American Mining Code, and Copp's Land Owner.

NOTE.—The references in this book to Copp's Public Land Laws are to the
work issued in 1875. The Land Owner references herein, from Vols. 2. to 8
inclusive, may be found in Copp's Public Land Laws, 1882, by means of the
List of Cases in that work.

HD 221
.CG

1886

COPYRIGHT,
BY HENRY N. COPP,

1886,

28937

INQUIRER P. & P. CO.,
STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTER,

LANCASTER, PA.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

LAGX.

1. Public and Private Land's

a. Landş not Public.

b. Public Lands .

6. Kinds of Public Lands ,

II. Several Terms Explained.

a. Public Sale. .

b. Private Sale, Private Entry, and Location.

c. Offered and Unoffered Lands .

d. Minimum and Double Minimum Lands

III. What will pay for Lands .

a. Cash Purchases.

b. Location with Warrants

c. Agricultural College Scrip

d. Supreme Court Scrip

e. Indemnity Land Scrip.

f. Revolutionary Bounty Land Scrip.

g: Certificates of Deposits.

h. Other Kinds of Scrip.

IV. Citizenship.

V. Presentation of Appeals.

VI. How Much Land One Person Can Take.

VII. What An Agent Can Do.

CHAPTER II.

UNITED STATES SYSTEM OF SURVEYS.

Ilow to Find a Tract of Land

How Townships are Numbered .

How to Tell Corners

Manner of Establishing Corners by Posts

Diagram Illustrating Public Surveys

Notching Corner Posts

Instructions for Surveys since 1864

Meandering Navigable Streams .

Surveys Made at Expense of Settlers

How to Subdivide Sections.

Re-establishment of Lost Corners .

Libros

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