Laws of the United States of a local or temporary character : and exhibiting the entire legislation of Congress upon which the public land titles in each state and territory have depended, December 1, 1880 : embracing, also, a digest of all Indian treaties affecting the titles to public lands, an abstract of the authority for and the boundaries of, the existing military reservations, and a table of judicial and executive decisions affecting the various subjects arising under the public land system
prepared pursuant to the authority of an act of Congress and under the direction of the "Commission on the Codification of Existing Laws Relating to the Survey and Disposition of the Public Domain."