Manuscripts

United States General Land Office letter to Senator Eugene Casserly

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Description: Letter from the United States Department of the Interior, General Land Office, to Senator Eugene Casserly regarding Casserly's proposed Senate Resolution to establish a "law distributing the public lands of the United States in California into different classes with a view to their more speedy settlement and disposition." The Land Office replies with reasons why this plan would be untenable, including the difficulties of defining land value, re-distributing already settled land, the additional surveying costs, and the problem of vandalism over supposed gold and silver deposits.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1870, March 21.
Call number: mssHM 72999
Creator: United States(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from James T. Kane, June 29, 1946.
Associated people: Casserly, Eugene, (1820-1883,)
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