U.S. Huntsville Land Office - Receivers' journals (bookkeeping), 1809-1834.

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U.S. Huntsville Land Office - Receivers' journals (bookkeeping), 1809-1834.

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District land office Receivers were responsible for all financial transactions relating to the sale of public lands. Receivers' journals provide a double entry recording of each daily transaction arranged by type of account. Generally several types of accounts are included together in the same volume under the following headings: sales of public lands; stock and cash; interest accounts; account of discounts; accounts of deposits; and account of forfeitures. Not all accounts are included in all volumes. Entries usually include the date, purchaser's name, purchase date, location of tract, number of acres, and price. These volumes document the business aspects of public land sales, the work of the Receiver of Public Monies and provide information on purchasers. Often this series appears together in a volume with Receiver's ledgers. The 1820-1832 volume includes accounts of Cherokee School Lands.

10 volumes and 1 folder.

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Alabama. Secretary of State. Lands Division.

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United States. Huntsville Land Office

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Authorities: Barefield, Marilyn Davis. "Old Huntsville Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1810-1854." Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1985. Bush, Evelyn. "United States Land Offices in Alabama, 1803-1879." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (1955): 146-153. The land office later known as the Huntsville Land Office was created by an act of 1807 Mar. 3 and was established at Nashville, Tenn. on 1810 July 27. The office was moved to Twi...

United States. General Land Office

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Under regulations approved on March 20, 1915, tracts set aside as villa sites under the provisions of an act of April 12, 1910, within the former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, were offered for sale at public auction, beginning at Polson, Montana, on July 26, 1915. The sale was adjourned to Dayton, Montana, on August 6 and concluded at Kalispell, Montana, on August 7, 1915. There were 889 parcels of land, not less than 2 nor more than 5 acres in area, fronting on Flathead Lake, and under ...