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U.S.871.13

Harvard College Library

SEP 17 1912
From the

U. S. Government,

REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

Administrative reports, in 2 volumes.

Vol. I. Secretary of the Interior.

Bureaus, except Office of Indian Affairs.
Eleemosynary institutions.

National parks and reservations.

Vol. II. Indian Affairs.

Territories.

Report of the Commissioner of Education, in 2 volumes.

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Report of the Secretary of the Interior...

Bureaus of the Interior Department...

General statement..

Public-land laws..

Water-power laws...

Reorganization of General Land Office.

Bureau of National Parks...

Retirement......

CONTENTS.

Lower Colorado River..

New building needed for Patent Office and departmental records..

Office of Assistant Attorney General....

General Land Office.....

Report of the Secretary of the Interior—Continued.

National parks and reservations...

National monuments and preservation of American antiquities...

Eleemosynary institutions....

Government Hospital for the Insane.

Freedmen's Hospital......

Howard University.

Columbia Institution for the Deaf..

Maryland School for the Blind...

Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds..

General Education Board.............

Improvements at Lawton, Okla..

Memorial to John Wesley Powell..

Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua.

Appendices:

Appendix A. Land-classification work..

Appendix B. National-park statistics..

Appendix C. Agriculture in Alaska..

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office..

General statement......

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Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office-Continued.

Carey Act................

Reservoir declaratory statements..

Rights of way....

Railroad selections...

Reclamation work.....

Collection of water-right charges.

State selections.....

Field examination of selected lands..

Imperial Valley lands..

Swamp lands.....

National forests..

National monuments.

Homestead entries in forest reserves..

Sales of abandoned military reservations..

Power-site reserves.....

Agriculture entries on lands bearing oil, phosphate, and natural gas.

Indian allotments..............

Indian allotment applications.

Creek lands east of the Missisippi..

Indian reservation openings....

Chippewa logging, Minnesota...

Lieu selections for lands in Indian reservations..

Relinquishments......

Summary of proposed legislation..

General Land Office building..

Statistics relating to the disposition of the public domain..

Report of the Commissioner of Pensions

Commissioners of Pensions since 1883...

General statement........

Pensions of the several wars and of the peace establishment..

Act of February 6, 1907...

Act of April 19, 1908..

Ten years' summary.

Special acts......

Criminal prosecutions................

Bounty-land warrants....

Surviving officers of the Civil War, and length of service...

Payments of pension without a voucher.....

Card index of records and removal of useless papers.

Checking the pension roll.......

Revolutionary War records..

Historical...

Miscellaneous..

Statistical tables relating to pensions...

Pension agencies, dates of payment, and district 1.

Report of the Commissioner of Patents..

Condition of work......

Gains in efficiency and economy.

Legislation....

The case of Everding, Barton, and Heany..

The patent bar..

Changes in the trade-mark law and reorganization of the trade-mark division

Scientific library...

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Report of the Commissioner of Patents-Continued.

International conferences and treaties.....

The conference at Washington......

Need for additional space for the Patent Office.

Statement of the Commissioner of Education....

Division of higher education...............

Division of school administration.

Editorial division

Statistical division..

Correspondence division..

Library division...........

Alaska school service..

The Alaska reindeer service...

National Education Association.

Recommendations.....

Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey.

Special features.....

Work on the public lands....

Public-land legislation....

Nature of the Geological Survey's work..

Proposed amendment of public-land laws..

Purposes and means of amendment..

Separation of surface and mineral rights..

Law applicable to coal lands.............

Laws applied to phosphate lands..

Law needed for oil and gas lands.

Laws relating to metalliferous minerals..

Legislation required for water power..

Examinations under the Weeks Act...

Necrology......

Samuel Franklin Emmons..

Work of the year...

Publications..

Field work by the Director..

Geologic branch..

Administration..

Publications...

Division of geology.

Organization..

Field work of the chief geologist....

Work of the chiefs of sections

Section of areal and structural geology.

Section of paleontology and stratigraphic geology..

Section of economic geology, metalliferous ores...

Section of economic geology, nonmetalliferous minerals..

Section of economic geology, fuels...................

Subsection of fuels east of meridian 97°.

Geologic work in New England States..

Work in northern Appalachian region..

Work in southern Appalachian region.

Work in Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain.......

Work in Central States east of meridian 97°.

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