Enumeration of land contained in Shawneetown District, 1814.

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Enumeration of land contained in Shawneetown District, 1814.

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List was prepared from plats contained in the Surveyor General's Office prior to opening of district office for land sales. Arranged by township the exact number of acres contained in each section is enumerated. Also included is an undated recapitulation, by range, of sold and unsold acreage, and total acreage for each land type (i.e., school; saline; lead; private grants; government).

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United States. Shawneetown Land Office

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The Shawneetown Land District Office was created by an act of Congress on February 21, 1812. Part of the new district's land had formerly been attached to the Kaskaskia Land District; and a small portion of the Vincennes (Indiana) District was added to Shawneetown after Illinois' boundaries were established. The first public land sale occurred in Shawneetown on July 18, 1814 after sufficient surveys had been completed. In 1820 the land north of the baseline for the second and third principal mer...

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 ...

United States. Surveyor General

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