﻿LAND 
  TITLES. 
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  eign 
  governments, 
  and 
  confirmed 
  by 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  

   amounts 
  to 
  767,547 
  acres, 
  545,480 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  in 
  the 
  

   Natchez 
  district, 
  and 
  222,067 
  in 
  the 
  Augusta 
  land 
  dis- 
  

   trict, 
  east 
  of 
  Pearl 
  River. 
  The 
  whole 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  

   has 
  elsewhere 
  been 
  stated 
  at 
  35,520,000 
  acres 
  ; 
  of 
  this, 
  

   it 
  would 
  appear, 
  from 
  data 
  furnished 
  by 
  the 
  census 
  

   report 
  of 
  1850, 
  10,490,000 
  acres 
  are 
  held 
  by 
  individuals, 
  

   of 
  which 
  3,444,000 
  are 
  in 
  cultivation. 
  

  

  The 
  unimproved 
  lands 
  amount 
  therefore 
  to 
  32,076,000 
  

   acres, 
  of 
  which 
  25,036,000 
  acres 
  are 
  still 
  held 
  by 
  the 
  

   United 
  States, 
  or 
  by 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  Mississippi. 
  

  

  