Opinions of the Attorney General relating to land matters.

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Opinions of the Attorney General relating to land matters.

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The first file within this series contains opinions from the attorney general in answer to questions relating to the award of military bounty land. These were issued in 1807, 1809-1810, 1831, 1834-1835, and 1857. The second file containes opinions presented by the attorney general in reply to requests from the register for answers to questions relating to various types of land problems. These opinions were given in the years 1791, 1794-1796, 1798, 1801, 1803, 1806, 1811-1812, 1814-1815, 1823, 1826, 1828, 1830, 1842, 1852, and 1859. The final item is a letter from Virginia's congressional delegation to Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, objecting to a recent policy decision regarding the Scrip Act of 1852. The decision was contrary to opinions given by the Virginia attorney general and under which the commonwealth had been operating.

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