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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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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.
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District Clerk Returns
District Clerk Returns are official documents of the district court of a given county summarizing and endorsing an individual's claim to a valid land certificate. District Clerk Returns contains reports from each district court listing judgments regarding claims for land certificates, 1839-1874.Categories
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Energy Resources Records
The Texas General Land Office earns money for the Permanent School Fund (PSF). One of its primary responsibilities is leasing the state's vast land and mineral holdings for energy and mineral development with the proceeds going into the PSF to help finance K-12 education in Texas.The Energy Resources Collection contains correspondence, legal records and computer-generated reports detailing what State-owned tracts of land have been leased; by whom; and what fees were owed to the GLO.
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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