The larg 18.65_..................... 184 17 .......................... 161 est number was in 1867. one hundred and eightyfour. Now this bill .......................184 reduces the number down to one hundred and fortytwo. I desire also to call the attention of the committee to this fact: Statement showing the contingent expeaes and salaria of the General since 1855 there never has been such an immigration into the Vest as Land Officefrom 1858 to 1878. as derivedfrom Unioted States Statues. during the present year. In the single State of Minnesota. within the last six months. two million five hundred thousand acres of railroad United States Statutes. Conlin- Salaries. and public lands have been entered under the homestead and preomp- Year. volume and page. gent. tion acts. [Here the hammer fell.]
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