Tract books of land sold within Vandalia District, 1821-1873.

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Tract books of land sold within Vandalia District, 1821-1873.

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Land sales were entered in the tract books by legal description , presumably to ensure that any given tract was not sold more than once. Entries include tract legal description; purchaser name; sales date; and acreage. Tract books occasionally include Receiver's receipt number; purchaser residence; and patent suspension or cancellation date. Swamp land tracts are noted with Congressional act date under which they were designated. Vandalia District tracts were sold at the Springfield Land District Office (May 1, 1856- ).

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United States. Vandalia Land Office

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The Vandalia Land District Office, created by an act of Congress (May 11, 1820), assumed responsibility for part of the land north of the third principal meridan baseline which had been formerly attached to the Shawneetown District. All lands north of the line separating townships sixteen and seventeen north of the baseline were transferred in 1831 to the newly created Danville Office. In 1833 Vandalia received twenty-six additional townships which had been part of the Edwardsville ...

United States. Springfield Land Office.

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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 ...