The New Hampshire Gazette

WASHINGTON CITY, NOV. 18.

Public Lands.—An interesting document was yesterday transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Senate, in pursuance of a resolution of that house at the late Session, containing a body of information on the subject of the lands of the United States purchased from the Indians; the quantity sold; for how much sold. &c. &c. The sums which have been paid, and remain to be paid, under Treaties made with the Indian tribes, to indemnify them for cessions of lands to the United States, is $2,542,916.—The expense of surveying the Public Lands, from 4th March, 1789, to 31st Dec. 1819, has been $243,632. The whole quantity of land which has been sold by the United States, as well before as since the opening of the Land Offices, up to 30th Sept. 1819, is 20,138,482 acres: and the amount for which it has been sold is $45,098,696. Of this amount, $22,229,180 had been paid, and $22,869,516 remained to be paid, at the close of Sept. 1819. The quantity of lands surveyed in the several Land Office Districts is 72,805,092 acres, whereof 13,601,930 acres have been sold, leaving 54,203,162 acres unsold. The quantity surveyed for military bounty lands, is 12,315,360 acres. The whole quantity of land purchased from the Indians by the various treaties and cessions is estimated at 191,978,536 acres!

Let these sums and quantities be read aloud, and the reader will be startled at their sonorous magnitude.—Nat. Int.