General operational records, 1769-1920.

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General operational records, 1769-1920.

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These records contain records generally related to the operations of the Land Office but which do not fit into any existing series, including memoranda pertaining to searches of the records made by office clerks for unnamed individuals, warrants, post office box receipts, unrecorded caveats and surveys,preemption certificates not of record, and fragments. The few papers which do not appear to be related to Land Office affairs include lottery tickets authorized by the board of the Literary Fund, 1819;an account of sales of furniture for Gervas S. Burton, 1855; the draft of a speech about a painting to be unveiled at Yorktown, n.d.; a J.K. Cilley ? a Craven County, North Carolina, court abstract involving the supposed disappearance at sea of an individual, 1834; and a United States Weather Bureau 12th monthly report of the Virginia Weather Service, 1892. These records cover the period 1769; 1774; 1779-1782; 1785; 1789-1792; 1796-1798; 1803; 1810; 1813; 1818- 1819; 1822; 1826-1832; 1834; 1837; 1840; 1846; 1851; 1854-1857; 1860; 1866-1867; 1870-1871; 1873; 1881-1883; 1887; 1891-1892; 1903-1905; 1920, n.d.2 in.

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Virginia. Land Office. Register.

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The act that established the Land Office in 1779, provided for a Register to be at the head, who would be "appointed from time to time, by joint ballot of both houses of assembly...." It was the responsibility of the Register to carry out the very carefully structured legislation which provided the procedure for obtaining waste and unappropriated lands. So thorough was the system that no major change in Virginia's method of distribution of virgin land was made until the mid-20th cen...

Virginia. Land Office

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