Reports on the Land Office, 1747-1917.

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Reports on the Land Office, 1747-1917.

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Includes reports documenting the condition, records, and officiency of the Land Office at various dates between 1747 and 1917. The reports were compiled by different sources, including the deputy auditor, registers, and various committees of the General Assembly.

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Library of Virginia

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Virginia. Land Office. Register.

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The act that established the Land Office in 1779, provided for a Register to be at the head, who would be "appointed from time to time, by joint ballot of both houses of assembly...." It was the responsibility of the Register to carry out the very carefully structured legislation which provided the procedure for obtaining waste and unappropriated lands. So thorough was the system that no major change in Virginia's method of distribution of virgin land was made until the mid-20th cen...

Virginia. Colonial Land Office.

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