The National Administration of the United States of America

PUBLIC LANDS

References. -- American and English Encyclopedia of Law, 26:197.-- Decisions of the Department of the Interior and of the Public Land Office.-- THOMAS DONALDSON: The Public Domain (House Executive Documents 47, 46th Congress, 3d session).-- W. H. LESTER: Land Laws, Regulations and Decisions of the United States.-- D. H. TAL- BOT : Land Laws of the United States- H. N. COPP: Public Land Laws.-- D. S. SICKLES: United States Mining Laws and Decisions-- S. SATO: History of the Land Question (Johns Hopkins University Studies, IV).-- A. B. HART: Practical Essays, No. 10-- B. A. HINS- DALE : Old Northwest, ch. 14.-- WINSOR: Narrative and Critical His- tory, 7:533.-- Atlantic Monthly, 43:325.-- Forum, 29:347.-- North American Review, 133:204; 140:280.

INDIAN AFFAIRS

CHARLES J. KAPPLER, editor: Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, 1771902 (Senate Document 452, 57th Congress, 1st session)-- CYRIL THOMAS: The Indians of North America ( 1904).-- ALICE C. FLETCHER: Report on Indian Education.-- F. A. WALKER: The Indian Question.-- GEORGE W. MANNYPENNY : Our Indian Wards.-- GEORGE. E. ELLIS: The Red Man and the White Man.--MRS. H. H. JACKSON: A Century of Dishonor.-- Amer- ican Law Review, 15:21; 20:183-- Atlantic Monthly, 68:549, 676; 83:255; 84:280.-- North American Review, 128:413; 167:719.-- Forum, 10:708; 28:737.-- Annals Amer. Acad. Soc. and Pol. Sci., 2:813.-- Review of Reviews, 5:551; 23:451.-- Federal Reporter, 14:541.

UNLIKE the other departments in the national administra- tion, the title of the department of the Interior does not indi- cate with any clearness the character of the work with which it has to deal. Indeed, the matters assigned to it are so mis- cellaneous and heterogeneous that it would probably be impos- sible to find any simple title that would serve to describe them. It has already been noted, too, in speaking of the Secretary of

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