Incoming letters, 1847-1860.

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Incoming letters, 1847-1860.

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This series functioned to document the recording duties and other functions of the Secretary of State. Besides letters, this series also contains extraditions, handbills, petitions, and receipts. Subjects discussed include the awarding of commissions of various types, particularly land commissioners and notary publics, the creation of new electoral beats, the formation of new counties, the Alabama-Florida boundary, state tax assessments, bids for printing public documents, the cost of improving the Capitol grounds in Tuscaloosa in the late 1840s, land ownership, the crime of stealing slaves, corporation charters, taking the census, Michael Tuomey's work on a geological survey, the incorporation of the Masonic Female College in Auburn in 1852, temperance, militia units, James H. Weaver's 1857 campaign to be re-elected Secretary of State, and railroads, particularly the Northeast and Southwest Alabama Railroad.

1.3 cubic ft. (1 records center carton and 1 archives box).

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