General Records of the Bureau of Land Management.

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General Records of the Bureau of Land Management.

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Included are general correspondence of the Washington land offices dated before 1908 (6,400 linear ft.), including telegrams, reports, and other communications sent, 1796-1908, that related to surveys; military bounty land warrants and scrip; private land, preemption, homestead, mineral, timber, and stone claims; Indian and swamp lands; railroad grants; agricultural college scrip and school lands; forest reserves; townsites; reclamation; timber trespasses; preparing, recording, and transmitting patents; and fiscal, personnel and other administrative matters. Letters received, 1803-1908, with registers and indexes, including separately filed letters from registers and receivers, 1803-49; from surveyors general, 1803-71; and relating to railroad rights-of-way and land grants, canal improvement and irrigation rights, timbercutting permits, timber trespasses and sales, and military, lighthouse, and other reservations. Other Washington office records concern special grants to immigrants and refugees (in Washington National Records Center), 1830; railroad mortgages, 1886-1938; a register of mining entries (in Washington National Records Center), 1875-1907; Federal reimbursements for tax revenues lost by counties in Oregon and California when railroad land grant titles were revested in the United States, 1916-31; valuation of Indian lands acquired by the United States, 1864-1908; records of the Board of Commissioners for the Hot Springs, Ark., Reservation, 1877-79; correspondence concerning Alabama selections under the May 23, 1928, Muscle Shoals Grant, 1915-28; and records relating to the Kaweah Cooperative Colony of California, 1934-35.

6,429 linear ft.

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