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[email protected]. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. 49 REPORT OF THE CO~I~IJISSIONER OF TI-IE GENER.AL LAND OFFICE. ' GENERAL LAND OFFICE, November 29, 1860. Sn-t: During the past year the operations of the land system have extended by direct administrq.tive action within the limits of all the political divisions embracing the public domain, to wit: Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, California, Oregon, Minnesota, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and to the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, (known as Dacotah,) Washington, New Mexico, and Utah. Our correspondence has passed those limits, having extended within all the other members of the Confederacy where non-resident claimants hold interests, requiring adjustment under bounty land grants for services in the war of the revolution, in the last war with Great Britain, the war with Mexico, with Indian tribes, under foreign titles, and under other grants in great diversity.