Washington State Normal School Accounting Office, Inspection Assessment and Sale Register 1892-1897

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Washington State Normal School Accounting Office, Inspection Assessment and Sale Register 1892-1897

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The Inspection Assessment and Sale Register is a “record of examination, appraisement and disposition of lands conveyed to the State of Washington by the United States” to support and finance state normal schools under section 17 of the Enabling Act.

2.0 cubic feet; 21x21 inches; 250 pages

eng,

Central Washington University Archives and Special Collections

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Washington State Normal School (Ellensburg, Wash.)

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In 1889 the United States Congress authorized the residents of Washington Territory to form a state government. One provision of that authorization was Section 17 of the Enabling Act, which granted additional lands owned by the United States government to the state for the establishment and maintenance of state normal schools. Those additional lands were to be held, appropriated, and disposed of exclusively for the specified purposes and in the manner that the state legislature might provide. Th...