The Premption Act and Tree Culture Act were in a book we found on Archive.org when Larry searched "railroad". This chapter talked about how much land a railroad was granted (24 miles on either side of the track!), so they graciously included the procedure for claiming your 160 acres.
I'd never heard of the "Tree Culture Act", but if I understand correctly, in Prempting you had to CLEAR trees from the land, but if there were no trees on your land, you had to PLANT 'em.
Seems typically Government, huh? ☺
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