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aTho quantity set down appropriated TO schools
and Of the Fire Lands.


So also, Some subsequent grants have been
mace for public works. On The whole, the
United States have appropriated more than
twelve millions Of acres for The purposes oil edu-
cation and internal improvement III the new
States This, then, has been the distribution Of
the public lands, viz:


lst Ninety-two millions of acres have been
scld producing 10 the Government one hundred
millions o. dollars, which ID less than what the
government mas paid for the lands bought Of the
Indians.


Cd. Twelve millions of acres have been given
10 ococgos, schools and canals


81. A report to Congress gives the following
amount Of lands on hand:


Indian title extingulshed to-. 3b1 94l loo
Surveyed .2I2 G46 $50
Ii is proper to say that there is report maoe
in Congress two years since, in which 1t is repre-
ten,ed, that the United States have derived rear
" ninety millions of dollars from the public lands.
We have taken the details, however, Tor each
year down to 1888 and added them together
The errors of the Congress report we take to be
these:


l. The sum paid for the removal of the Indians,
and other charges, amounting TO about twenty
millions Of dollars, are net included as it appears
10 us.


2. There is not enough allowed for the cost of
surveys and other charges,


3. The amounts are crs,dted the Government,
Cor which the lands sold, and not for what was
receited The Government at one time gave
credit and lost egreat many millions OF dollars.
In addition 10 the grants mentioned above,
several millions of acres have been granted as
bounty lands for military services.


Cincinnati Chronicle.