Records Relating to Public Land Surveys.

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Records Relating to Public Land Surveys.

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These records consists of records from Division "E" (the Division of Surveys, GLO), including letters received by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of the GLO from the Surveyor General of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, 1797-1849; reports, letters, and memorandums received from surveyors general of public land States, including records of the Surveyors General of Mississippi (south of Tennessee), 1803-31, Missouri, 1813-32, Alabama, 1817-32, and Florida, 1824-32; letters, with registers and indexes, and other records received from all surveyors general, ca. 1826-83; contracts with deputy surveyors, 1817-32, and surveyors contracts and bonds with surveyors general, 1851-1913, including correspondence, special instructions, and diagrams; records relating to surveys of State boundaries, military reservations, island, townsites, private land claims, and national parks, 1860-1940; group survey records (in Washington National Records Center) created after surveyors general discontinued hiring deputy surveyors in 1910, including reports, correspondence, special instructions, and plats and copies of progress reports, 1910-62; records that relate to surveying small islands, 1910-26; field notes from survey examiniations, ca. 1883-1913; plats, field notes, correspondence, and other records relating to rejected and abandoned surveys, ca. 1847-1915; letters sent to executive departments, 1864-1903; letters sent to registers and receivers, 1883-94. Other records from Division "E" are : records relating to Alaskan surveys, 1918-53, and to homestead entry and forest echange surveys in national forests, 1910-53. Locally maintained records include letters received, 1797-1856, and sent, 1797-1854, by the Surveyor General of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio; correspondence of the Surveyor General of Arkansas, 1831-59; and letters sent by the Surveyor General of Montana, 1892-1922, and the Surveyor General of South Dakota, 1920-22.

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