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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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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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Land Law Reference Books
Three volumes of legislative reference material used by the Legal Examiner of the General Land Office.Categories
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Mineral Applications on Advertised Lands
The Registers are records of applications made for the prospecting for and the development of the minerals in the public lands of Texas made available by the passage of SB 357 on March 16, 1917.Categories
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Mineral Leases Records
The Mineral Leases Records record lease information for State lands open to mineral prospecting for the years 1944-2004. Entries include price paid per lease, upfront bonus payment, and individual or corporate lessee.Categories
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Register of Applications to Purchase Public School and Asylum Lands
The Register is a record of applications made for the purchase of public school and ayslum lands made available by the passage of HB 71 on April 19, 1901.Categories
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Register of Oil and Gas Leases on University Land, Volume 1
The Register is a record of sales of oil and gas leases on University Lands made available by the passage of SB 343 on April 14, 1937.Categories
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Royalty Payments for Mineral Leases on Public School Lands
The Register provides oil and gas (mineral) production information and royalty payments to the State for the years 1933-1934.Categories
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School Land Classification and Reappraisment
Classifications and reappraisments for school, university and asylums lands were undertaken to determine the value of the lands for sale or lease. Lands were classified and valued based on their natural attributes: agricultural, grazing, timbered, and mineral. Agricultural and grazing lands were further subdivided into watered or dry.The School Land Classification and Reappraisment Records consist of 202 bound volumes and one unbound volume housed in 3 oversized boxes. The Records document work done by different GLO groups at different times from the end of the 19th century through the 1960s.
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School Land Registers
School Land Registers are oversized volumes that record the disposition of school land.Categories
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Texas General Land Office Vertical Files
The Vertical Files are an artificial collection of newspaper articles, research articles, historical articles, ephemera, etc., documenting the functions and the records of the General Land Office throughout Texas history organized alphabetically by subject.Categories
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- Admininstrative Papers
- Maps and Sketches
- VLB
- Titles/Deeds/Patents
- City Lots
- School
- Reports/Index
- Ledgers
- Land Grant Programs
- Surveyor Related
- County Related
- Spanish Collection
- Veterans
- Confederate Collections
- Railroad
- Defunct Agencies
- Manuscript Collections
- German-related
- Mineral Related
- Legal Documents
- Scrap
- Colony Records
- Contracts
- Correspondence
Twichell Survey Records
In attempts to verify and prove land ownership and boundaries, Humble Oil acquired surveying records related to lands primarily in West Texas. The Twichell Survey Records Committee was created to manage the Twichell Records, and all surveying records held by Humble and the Committee became known as the Twichell Survey Records.The Twichell Survey Records Committee was created in 1959 by a legal agreement between six oil companies for the purpose of managing the Twichell Survey Records. Surveying sketches, cadastral maps, town and neighborhood plats, field books, field notes, correspondence, and photographic materials comprise the Twichell Survey Records, 1832-1984.