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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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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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Hard Mineral Patents
A listing of hard mineral patents granted to various energy companies.Categories
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Leasing and Easements Registers
The registers list easements and surface leases of various types over a 21 year period. One registers contains information on timber sales.Categories
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Lists of Tracts Advertised for Mineral Lease
The Land Commissioner is compelled through various acts of the Texas Legislature to advertise land available for sale or lease to individuals. The Volume includes public bulletins announcing state lands available for purchase or lease.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, Prospect and Lease Mineral Lands
The Register is a record 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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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 Awards
This brief volume lists the recipients of royalty payments from the State of Texas, 1940-1983.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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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.