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After filing an affidavit with the government's agent, and paying him a $10 fee, the homesteader could begin occupying their claim. The government agent received the same fee for homestead land as he would have received if that land was sold for cash, 1/2 from the homesteader's filing fee and the other half from the patent (certificate) fee.
On May 20, 1862 President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law. [2] This legislation allowed settlers to acquire 160 acres of federal land in the west, provided that they pay a filing fee and maintain residence on the parcel for five continuous years.
Although the Land Act of 1820 was good for the average American it was also good for the wealthy investors, who had sufficient money to buy the lower cost land. The Land Act helped create a new age of Western growth and influence, but it also increased the confiscation of land from Native Americans. For earlier buyers of public lands however ...
This Bureau of Land Management map depicts the public domain lands surveyed and platted under the auspices of the GLO to facilitate the sale of those lands.. The GLO oversaw the surveying, platting, and sale of the public lands in the Western United States and administered the Homestead Act [2] and the Preemption Act in disposal of public lands.
Map showing land owned by different federal government agencies. The yellow represents the Bureau of Land Management's holdings. Horses crossing a plain near the Simpson Park Wilderness Study Area in central Nevada, managed by the Battle Mountain BLM Field Office Snow-covered cliffs of Snake River Canyon, Idaho, managed by the Boise District of the BLM
A land offer from the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, 1872. The Union Pacific (UP) land grant gave it ownership of 12,800 acres per mile of finished track. The federal government kept every other section of land, rendering a surplus of 12,800 acres to sell or give away to homesteaders.