Excerpt from Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting Information of the Progress That Has Been Made, Under the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1817: Entitled "an Act to Set Apart and Dispose of Certain Public Lands for the Encouragement of the Cultivation of the Vine and Olive"; December 14, 1818, Read, and Ordered to Lie Upon the Table It appears from the papers presented by them, that this map, or chart of the reservation, has been certified by the chief clerk of the surveyor of the public lands, under whose direction, the reservation has been made; but no return has been made by that officer of the surveys, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to which they ought, upon principles of law and of propriety, to have been fur hished before they Were placed in the hands of others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.