U.S. Huntsville Land Office - register of patents received and delivered, 1858-1904.

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U.S. Huntsville Land Office - register of patents received and delivered, 1858-1904.

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Land patents were issued to individual purchasers only after a thorough check of the records revealed that all payments had been received and the records relating to the purchase were in order. The U.S. General Land Office sent the patents to district land office Registers who were responsible for delivery of the patents to the purchaser. This volume serves as a register of the patents received at the Huntsivlle Land Office. The information is recorded on a printed form and includes the number of the certificate, to whom patented, where recorded, to whom sent, the date sent and where sent. Some months are divided into homestead patents, cash patents, military land warrants, certified copies, Cherokee School lands patents, etc. The bulk of the records cover the years 1884-1904. These records document the process by which individuals purchased public lands and provide information on individual purchasers and their land.

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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 ...