Papers relating to land in Northeastern District, ca. 1834-1960.

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Papers relating to land in Northeastern District, ca. 1834-1960.

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Papers cover various activities primarily conducted by Northeastern Land District Office. Documents include affidavits and depositions relating to preemption claims. , Receiver's receipts issued to purchasers of public land, powers of attorney, certificates of relinquishment, land patents and abstracts of patents issued and delivered, and abstracts of land sold at public and private sales. When Northeastern Office closed in July 1855 files were transferred to Springfield Land Office. There additional related material was placed in Northeastern files. In 1879 Auditor of Public Accounts was given custody of all files maintained at Springfield Office. He then proceeded to interfile his records with those of appropriate district. In Northeastern District files Auditor's records include list of town lots sold by Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners in Chicago (1830), list of lots in Chicago granted to aid in erection of public buildings (1831), county and township organization records, lists of land sold for nonpayment of taxes, abstracts of state land sales and copies of land patents issued by General Land Office headquarters.

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United States. General Land Office. Springfield District.

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The Springfield Land District Office was created by act of Congress of May 8, 1822. All land in Edwardsville District lying north of line separating townships thirteen and fourteen north of baseline for third rincipal meridian was assigned to new district. In 1831 and 1834 respectively Quincy and Northwestern Land Districts were created, encompassing some of land formerly contained in Springfield District. As other land offices located within Illinois were discontinued d...

Illinois. Auditor's Office

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In 1865 counties and cities were authorized to issue bonds in support of subscriptions to the capital stock of railroad companies or in aid of any public improvement (L. 1865, p. 44). In 1877 bonding authority also was extended to other local governmental units including towns, townships, school districts, and other municipal corporations (L. 1877, p. 158). Each bond issued by a local unit had to be registered with the Auditor. When the bonds for any one unit totaled $5,000 or more the Auditor w...

United States. General Land Office. Northeastern District.

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The Northeastern Land District Office was created at Chicago by Congressional act of June 26, 1834. District, formerly part of Danville District, was made up of part of land lying north of line separating townships thirty and thirty-one north of baseline for second and third principal meridians. The Receiver at Chicago was designated as depository for U.S. Treasury under 1846 Congressional act. In this capacity he received fees for patents and caveats on inventions, customs collected at Chicago ...