Reports of state agents showing land selected for internal improvements, August 1842.

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Reports of state agents showing land selected for internal improvements, August 1842.

List is tracts selected in Danville Land District under an act of Congress of September 4, 1841, prepared by Illinois agents and forwarded to Register at Danville so that tracts included could be withheld from sale. List includes legal description of tracts selected, number of acres in each and total number of acres selected in each township.

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United States. General Land Office. Danville District.

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The Danville Land District Office was created by an act of Congress of February 19,1831. Land lying north of line separating townships sixteen and seventeen north of baseline for second and third principal meridians, formerly parts of Vandalia and Palestine Districts, was assigned to new office. In 1834 Northwestern and Northeastern Districts were created, partially from that portion of Danville District lying north of line separating townships thirth and thirt-one north. ...