Note 41 — Chapter II
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Les États Unis d'Amérique en 1863, p. 360. By "improved" land, in the reports on the census of the United States, is meant "cleared land used for grazing, grass, or tillage, or which is now fallow, connected with or belonging to a farm."—Instructions to Marshals and Assistants, Census of 1850, schedule 4, §§ 2, 3.