U.S. Montgomery Land Office - registers of notices for publication, 1880-1905.

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Alabama. Secretary of State. Lands Division. U.S. Montgomery Land Office - registers of notices for publication, 1880-1905.

U.S. Montgomery Land Office - registers of notices for publication, 1880-1905.

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After a homesteader had resided on and cultivated his/her land for five years they were required to "make final proof" of their claim at the local land office. The district land office Register then placed a notice in the local newspaper which read in part, "Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and secure final entry thereof at the expiration of thirty days from the date of this notice." This series consists of registers of notices for publication in local newspapers. The 1880 volume is quite detailed and includes the number of the application, the date of the application, the location of the tract, the name of the applicant, the name of the newspaper the notice is to appear in and a note of whether or not the appropriate fee had been paid. Some entries also include clippings of the notices which have been pasted in the volume. The later volumes are less detailed but list the date, the homestead number, the date the notice is to appear, the name of the newspaper and amount paid in fees. Some volumes contain name indexes. These records document the act of homesteading in Ala. and the work of district land office Registers.

4 volumes and 1 folder.

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