federal land disposal rather than an account 

 of the settlement of the public lands.) 

 9. Hill, R. T. The Public Domain and Democracy, 

 in Columbia University Studies, Vol. 

 XXXVIII (1910), No. 1, Chapter II. 



10. McMaster, J. B. History of the People of the 



United States, Vol. Ill, Chapter XVI. 



11. Pelzer, Louis. The Public Domain as a Field 



for Historical Study, in The Iowa Journal of 

 History and Politics, Vol. XII (1914), pp. 

 568-578. 



12. Sato, Shosuke. History of the Land Question of 



the United States, in Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity Studies, Fourth Series (1886), pp. 5-60; 

 77-150. 



13. Treat, P. J.The Public Lands and the Public 



Land Policy, in McLaughlin and Hart's 

 Cyclopedia of American Government (1914), 

 Vol. Ill, pp. 93-97. (See also bibliography 

 appended to this article.) 



The National Land System, 1785-1820. Espe- 

 cially chapters I, II, IV, V end XIV. For 

 the Land Act of 1785, see pp. 395-400. 



14. Welling, J. C. The States Rights Conflict Over 



the Public Lands. Papers of American His- 

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15. American State Papers: Public Lands. (Eight 



volumes), 1785-1837. Exceedingly valuable. 



IX. 



AGRICULTURE DURING THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD. 



1783-1815. 



1. Adams, Henry. History of the United States, 



Vol. I (1889), Chapters I, II and VI. 



2. Bassett, J. S. Federalist System, in The Amer- 



ican Nation, Vol. XI, Chapter XIII. 



3. Bidwell, P. W. Rural Economy in New Eng- 



' land at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Cen- 

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