Papers relating to land in Vandalia District, 1820-1961.

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Papers relating to land in Vandalia District, 1820-1961.

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Vandalia Land District Office documents include military bounty land warrants; land patents; issued and delivered patent abstracts; preemption claim affidavits and declaratory statements; certificates of relinquishment; land reverted to the U. S. for nonpayment lists; erroneously sold swamp land list; Vandalia District surveys and plats; Receiver's receipts issued to land purchasers; fractional quarter section list; powers of attorney; land purchase applications; Commissioner of the General Land Office, Surveyor General, and Auditor of Public Accounts correspondence and circulars. When the Vandalia Office closed (May 1856), its files were transferred to the Springfield Land District Office, where officials continued to add items pertaining for further Vandalia District public land sales to the files. The Auditor of Public Accounts was given custody of all Springfield Land District Office files (1879), and interfiled auditor records (ca. 1829-1961), with district files. For the Vandalia District files the Auditor's records include lists of land sold for tax nonpayment; redeemed land lists; state land (e.g., school, swamp) sales abstracts; depositions taken supporting third-rate land classifications for tax purposes; and copies of land patents issued by the General Land Office in Washington, D. C.

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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 ...

Illinois. Auditor's Office

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United States. Surveyor General

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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 ...