U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - Receivers' journals (bookkeeping), 1800-1833.

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U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - Receivers' journals (bookkeeping), 1800-1833.

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District land office Receivers were responsible for all financial transactions relating to the sale of public lands. Receivers' journals provide a double entry recording of each daily transaction arranged by type of account. Generally several types of accounts are included together in the same volume under the following headings: sales of public lands; stock and cash; interest accounts; account of discounts; accounts of deposits; and account of forfeitures. Not all accounts are included in all volumes. Entries usually include the date, purchaser's name, purchase date, location of tract, number of acres, and price. These volumes document the business aspects of public land sales, the work of the Receiver of Public Monies and provide information on purchasers. Often this series appears together in a volume with Receiver's ledgers.

14 volumes.

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama. Secretary of State. Lands Division.

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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 ...

United States. St. Stephen's Land Office

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Authority: Bush, Evelyn. "United States Land Offices in Alabama, 1803-1879." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (1955): 146-153. The St. Stephens Land Office was created by an act of Congress on 1803 Mar. 3 to administer part of the Land District East of the Pearl River. The office opened in 1811 Sept. and was moved to Mobile in 1867. Though the boundaries administered by the office changed several times, the St. Stephens Land Office generally was responsible fo...