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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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Texas County Maps Volume
The Texas County Maps Volume contains copies of the official county maps from the Texas General Land Office sized down and bound into one oversized volume.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