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{{Short description|United States government agency (1812–1946)}}
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</ref> and the [[Preemption Act of 1841|Preemption Act]] in disposal of public lands. The frantic pace of public land sales in the 19th century American West led to the [[idiomatic expression]] "land-office business", meaning a thriving or high-volume trade.
For most of the active period of public land settlement, district land offices were the basic operating units that conducted the business of transferring title. All transactions relative to the disposal of public land within a declared land district were handled through its land office by officials designated as [[register (General Land Office)|
The GLO was placed under the [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]] when the Department of the Interior was formed in 1849. Reacting to public concerns about forest conservation, Congress in 1891 authorized the [[President of the United States|President]] to withdraw timber lands from disposal. [[Grover Cleveland]] then created 17 forest reserves of nearly {{convert|18000000|acre|km2}}, which were initially managed by the GLO. In 1905, Congress transferred responsibility for these reserves to the newly created [[United States Forest Service|Forest Service]], under the [[United States Department of Agriculture|Department of Agriculture]].
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*[[List of commissioners of the General Land Office]]
*[[Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey]]
*[[Louisiana Purchase State Park|Beginning Point of the Louisiana Purchase Survey]]
*[[National Irrigation Congress]]
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