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Special Act Certificates
Special Acts are legislation approved by the Texas Legislature granting land to individuals or their heirs. The records include handwritten copies of the Acts and an index. However, neither the records nor the index are comprehensive.Categories
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Special Orders of the 5th Military District
The 5th Military District was the military governing body for Texas during Reconstruction. The Special Orders of the Fifth Military District contains printed copies of approximately 84 extracts as they pertain to the Texas General Land Office and other State agencies for January - April, 1870.Many of the Special Orders direct the removal of persons from public office and the appointment of others down to the county level.
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Spencer Reid Subject Files
Spencer Lloyd Reid (1954-2010) lawyer and general counsel for the Texas General Land Office, was born in Lamesa, Texas to Bill and Alice Reid. The Spencer Reid Subject Files include correspondence, reports, printed materials, legal documents, photographs, maps, and clippings collected and created while working in several legal capacities at the Texas General Land Office.Categories
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Superconducting Super Collider Land Transactions Collection
The ill-fated Superconducting Super Collider was going to be the largest particle accelerator ever built. It's physical imprint on the land of Texas necessitated a role for the General Land Office. After the project was defunded in 1993, the Texas National Research Laboratory Commissioner was dissolved. The surface land and sub-surface land leases acquired by the Commission and the voluminous records documenting that activity becameme the property of the Texas General Land Office. The GLO was then tasked with selling the abandoned SSC land and facilities. The Collection is composed of records documenting the land purchases and later the land sales on behalf of the SSC project.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 Employee Payroll Records
7 bound volumes and one folder of loose papers document the wages paid to employees and the supply an equipment costs of the General Land Office 1870-1926 and 1949-1954.Categories
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Texas General Land Office Publications
Publications is an artificial collection of published materials advertising and marketing the services of the General Land Office. The collection contains published materials including books, brochures, calendars, cards, flyers, maps, pamphlets, and reports documenting services provided by the GLO to the citizens of Texas.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
Texas State Capitol Building Records
The records are a facsimile of the building contract and the specifications for the construction the Capitol building.Categories
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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.