U.S. Montgomery Land Office - cancellation registers, 1869-1908.

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U.S. Montgomery Land Office - cancellation registers, 1869-1908.

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Land purchases could be cancelled for various reasons at various times. Occasionally the purchaser would relinquish the land because he could not complete the payments or the purchase could be cancelled by the U.S. Land Commissioner because the land was later determined to be improperly sold or because the purchaser did not meet the necessary requirements. This series consists of a register of cancelled homestead entries, 1869-1872, and a general cancellation record, 1905-1908. The homestead register lists the homestead entry number, the name and address of the purchaser, the date, the tract location and contains notes explaining the cancellation. The general cancellation record contains the application number, the date, the name of the applicant, the tract location, the number of acres, the reason for cancellation and a computation of acreage cancelled by county. These records document the difficulties encountered when attempting to obtain land and maintain ownership.

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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 ...