Agency history.
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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. Superintendent of Weights and Measures.
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An act of the General Assembly approved March 19, 1847, provided for the preservation and use of the standard of weights and measures received under an act of Congress passed June 14, 1836. The clerk of the Council of State was appointed Superintendent of Weights and Measures. Twenty years later, after West Virginia became a state and most of the remaining vacant land declined, efforts to abolish the Land Office surfaced. Instead, the General Assembly abolished the offic...
Virginia. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
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On March 29, 1877, the General Assembly passed an act creating the Department of Agriculture, Mining, and Manufacturing to compile a geological handbook, analyze soils and fertilizers, dispense information to agriculturists in the state, and distribute seeds provided by the federal government. The Board of Agriculture was established by the General Assembly on March 5, 1888, to manage the department. The name of the department was changed to the Department of Agriculture and Immigra...
Virginia. Department of Agriculture and Immigration
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Virginia. Land Office
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After the conclusion of the French and Indian War, the British government issued a proclamation designed to prevent clashes between the settlers and Indians. This proclamation of 1763 forbid settlement west of the Alleghany mountains. From the description of List of complete military warrants under the Proclamation of 1763 from the Virginia Land Office,. (Library of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 318646134 The act which established the Land Office passed the General Assembly...
