═══════════╤═══════════╤═════════╤════════════╤══════════╤═════════════ Fiscal Year│ Surveying │ Land │ Cost of │Number of │ Number of ending │districts. │Offices. │ Survey. │ Acres │ Acres June 30. │ │ │ │Surveyed. │Disposed of. ───────────┼───────────┼─────────┼────────────┼──────────┼───────────── 1862 │ 9 │ 58 │ $219,000 00│ 2,673,132│ 1,337,922.00 1863 │ 11 │ 54 │ 151,840 00│ 2,147,981│ 2,966,698.00 1864 │ 10 │ 53 │ 172,906 00│ 4,315,954│ 3,238,865.00 1865 │ 10 │ 53 │ 170,721 00│ 4,161,778│ 4,513,738.00 1866 │ 10 │ 61 │ 186,389 88│ 4,267,037│ 4,629,312.00 1867 │ 12 │ 62 │ 423,416 22│10,808,314│ 7,041,114.00 1868 │ 13 │ 68 │ 325,779 50│10,170,656│ 6,665,742.00 1869 │ 12 │ 66 │ 497,471 00│10,822,812│ 7,666,151.00 1870 │ 17 │ 81 │ 560,210 00│18,165,278│ 8,095,413.00 1871 │ 17 │ 83 │ 683,910 00│22,016,607│10,765,705.00 1872 │ 17 │ 92 │1,019,378 66│29,450,939│11,864,975.64 ═══════════╧═══════════╧═════════╧════════════╧══════════╧═════════════ This shows an increase of the number of surveyors’ general from nine to seventeen, and land-offices from fifty-eight to ninety-two, and an increase in the annual survey from 2,673,132 acres to 29,458,939 acres, and an increase in the number of acres disposed of from 1,337,932 to 11,864,975.64, for the year ending June 30, 1872. The Land-Office audits its own accounts. It is also charged with laying off land-grants made to the various railroad schemes by Congress. The mines belonging to the Government are also in charge of this office. The Commissioner of Pensions examines and adjudicates all claims arising under the various and numerous laws passed by Congress, granting bounty-lands or pensions for military and naval services rendered the United States at various times. The Rebellion greatly increased the pension list. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has charge of all the matters relating to the Indian tribes of the frontier. The Government has at sundry times purchased the lands of various tribes residing east of the Mississippi River, and has settled the Indians upon reservations in the extreme West. For some of these lands a perpetual annuity was granted the tribes; for others, an annuity for a certain specified time; and for others still, a temporary annuity, payable during the pleasure of the President or Congress. The total sum thus pledged to these tribes amounts to nearly twenty-one and a half millions. It is funded at five per cent., the interest alone being paid to the tribes; this interest amounts to over two hundred thousand dollars. It is paid in various ways—in money, in provisions, and in clothing. The Commissioner has charge of all these dealings with the savages.