U.S. Montgomery Land Office - daily registers of cash receipts and balance, 1885-1908.

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U.S. Montgomery Land Office - daily registers of cash receipts and balance, 1885-1908.

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District land office Receivers received circular letters from the U.S. Land Commission in 1884 and 1906 instructing them to keep a daily register of cash receipts and balances. The letter informed Receivers that they were required to enter each day, in detail, all receipts and deposits of money for which they were held accountable in monthly and quarterly accounts. At the close of each day the register was to be balanced, ruled and the balance carried forward. The balance was also to be verified by the signature of the district Register. Each entry contains the date; type of transaction and transaction number; and receipts and deposits for cash sales, fees and commissions and miscellaneous items. Miscellaneous receipts and balances include testimonies, cancellations, diagrams, homestead entry commissions, 1877 Mar. 3 Act, 1883 Mar. 3 Act, finals, and detailed fees. The cash sales column contains certificates of deposit and balance, as well as receipts and deposits. The register may be balanced at the end of the page, the end of the day, the end of the week or the end of the month. Some volumes do not contain the Register's verification and signature. These records document the work of district land office Registers and Receivers and provide information on the financial aspects of the sale of public land.

8 volumes.

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Alabama. Secretary of State. Lands Division.

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United States. Montgomery Land Office

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Authorities: Brannon, Peter. "Through the Years: United States Land Offices in Alabama." Montgomery Advertiser. 1936 July 26. Bush, Evelyn. "United States Land Offices in Alabama, 1803-1879." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (1955): 146-153. The Montgomery Land Office was established by an act of 1832 July 10 to administer the Tallapoosa Land District in the State of Ala. The office opened on 1834 Jan. 1 and originally was made up of the lower Cree...

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 ...