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Acquittance and Excess Acreage Registers
The Deed of Acquittance Register is an index of those land owners who have been granted a Deed of Acquittance for excess acreage by the General Land Office. This volume is the only extant register and covers 1960-1983. The Excess Acreage Log records where and how much land is in excess, 1965-1999.Categories
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Advertisements for Lands and Leases coming on the Market
The Land Commissioner is compelled through various acts of the Texas Legislature to advertise land available for sale or lease to individuals. The records contain advertisements for the following: Oil and Gas leases on University Lands, Submerged Oil and Gas areas, and School Lands.Categories
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Advertisements for Public Lands for sale on Mustang Island
The Land Commissioner is compelled through various acts of the Texas Legislature to advertise land available for sale or lease to individuals. The records contain advertisements for the sale of land on Mustang Island.Categories
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Agents Reports
Similar to a clerk return, the Agent Reports document the legitimacy of those who had received a land grant certificate. The records are incomplete and document only 1838-1839 and it is believed that they were used to inform the clerk returns filed at the GLO.Categories
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Asset Management Records
The Asset Management Division of the General Land Office was created in 1985 to manage the public lands of the state of Texas for the benefit of the Permanent School Fund. Asset Management Records consist of state land reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, publications, maps, pamphlets, land patents, and questionnaires.Categories
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Attorney General Opinions of Texas Public Lands
Attorney General Opinions contains official opinions of the Texas Attorney General on the interpretation of the law regarding public lands.Categories
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Austin City Lots and Outlots Records
The Records contain sales certificates and two bound volumes documenting the original sale of the lots and outlots of the City of Austin. The certificates have been digitized. See Related Materials.Categories
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Austin Triangle Development Records
Documents the efforts of Austin Mayor Kirk Watson and Garry Mauro, Commissioner of the General Land Office to create a second mixed-use development on the land formerly used by the Austin State Hospital. The development, known as the Triangle was developed on acreage bordered by Lamar Blvd., Guadalupe St. and W. 45th St. The Collection also includes material relating to the first development, known as Central Park on Austin State Hospital land between bordered by Lamar Blvd., Guadalupe St., and W. 38th St.Categories
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Austin's Colony Records
Austin's Colony was the first and largest Anglo-American settlement in Mexican Texas and was established by Stephen F. Austin in 1821. The Records include contracts, land titles, surveyor's field notes, correspondence, registers, and plats of surveys created as a result of the process by which settlers were admitted to the colony and given title to land.Categories
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Board of Veterans Journal
The Board of Veterans Records include 2 items. The Board of Veterans Journal is a summary of the review and approval or rejection of applicants by the board created by the Acts of 1879 and 1881. The Abstract of Claims is a loose collection of spreadsheet pages with one column for the "name of applicant" and a second for "action of Board."Categories
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Boards of Land Commissioners Records
County boards of land commissioners kept a record of their proceedings as they went about their business of issuing headright certificates to eligible applicants. The Traveling Board was created in 1840 to audit the certificates issued by the County Boards of Land Commissioners with a focus on disqualifying certificates found to be fraudulent. The records documenting the work of the County Boards of Land Commissioners contains four document boxes and five published volumes.Categories
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Bull Family Collection
The Bull Family Collection consists of a snapshot into the lives of Pleasant M. Bull (1808-1836) and Elisha Rufus Bull (1820-1904) through correspondence. Lola Smith collected the letters and provided transcriptions of them in her genealogical manuscript. The family history written in 1986 provides context for the broader Bull family.Categories
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Camp Fannin Cultural Resources Collection
Located outside of Winona, Texas, near Tyler, Texas in Smith County, Camp Fannin Army Training Camp was in operation from 1943-1946. The Camp Fannin Cultural Resources Collection contains artifacts, subject files, and a draft Cultural Resources Report.Categories
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Clerk Returns Collection
A clerk return is a document created by the appointed clerk for the county board of land commissioners that records information associated with the issuance of a land certificate. The Collection is primarily used to provide genealogists with the movements and acquaintances of their ancestors. Clerk returns contain the name of every person to whom a certificate shall be given, the amount of land granted to each person, the time of their emigration to the country, the name or names of the witness or witnesses by whom the claimants severally proved their claims.Categories
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Coastal Resources Records
The federal Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA) gave coastal states financial incentives, through federal funding, to establish environmentally-friendly coastal management programs in order to “preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or enhance, the resources of the Nation's coastal zone for this and succeeding generations” (CZMA ’76). This prompted the Texas General Land Office, under the leadership of Commissioner Bob Armstrong, to begin studying and surveying the Texas Coastal Zone, identifying ecological, economical and social issues within it, holding public hearings to discuss and establish a coastal management plan, and finally, applying for program approval to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Department of Commerce.The Texas Coastal Management Program is well-documented by applications, correspondence, published reports and meeting minutes. Also included are a brief program history, resolutions, audits, procedures, newsletters, research files, floppy disks, video tape, and slides.