U.S. Huntsville Land Office - daily registers of cash receipts and balances, 1885-1905.

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U.S. Huntsville Land Office - daily registers of cash receipts and balances, 1885-1905.

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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, Indian land sales, preliminary testimony, timber depredations and reducing testimony to writing. The cash sales contain 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.

5 volumes.

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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 ...