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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1893 Sir: I have the honor to present the following summary of the busi ness transacted by the Interior Department during the fiscal year ending June 30 last, together with a brief reference to some of the more important events which have occurred since that time. To the jurisdiction of this Department is assigned Public Lands, Indian Affairs, Pensions, Patents, the Census, the Geological Survey, the Educational Bureau, the Bureau of Railroads, the Territories, National Parks, certain Eleemosynary Institutions in or near the District of Columbia, the distribution of public documents, the work of the Archi teet of the Capitol, and the Nicaraguan Canal, so far as the Govern ment interests therein are concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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