Willis Drummond letter relating to revisions of the California-Oregon border, 1873 June 27.

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Willis Drummond letter relating to revisions of the California-Oregon border, 1873 June 27.

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The Willis Drummond letter relating to revisions of the California-Oregon border, dated 27 June 1873, is written by Drummond in his official capacity as Commissioner of the General Land Office and addressed to the Register of Receivers in Humboldt, California. The manuscript letter requests the suspension of "all action in the disposal of public lands" in an area that straddled the California-Oregon border (as defined in 1870), pending the distribution of an amended plat showing the revised legal boundary ("one quarter of a mile south of the mouth of the Winshuck [sic] River in Oregon"). Township and range coordinates are provided in this letter on government stationery, signed by Drummond.

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Drummond, Willis, 1808-1879

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Willis Drummond was Commissioner of the General Land Office, United States Department of the Interior, during the 1870s. The General Land Office was established as part of the United States Treasury Department in 1812. In 1849, it was transferred to the Deptartment of the Interior. In 1946, the General Land Office and the Grazing Service were consolidated to form the Bureau of Land Management. From the description of Willis Drummond letter relating to revisio...

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