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Acquittance and Excess Acreage Registers
The Deed of Acquittance Register is an index of those land owners who have been granted a Deed of Acquittance for excess acreage by the General Land Office. This volume is the only extant register and covers 1960-1983. The Excess Acreage Log records where and how much land is in excess, 1965-1999.Categories
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Attorney General Opinions of Texas Public Lands
Attorney General Opinions contains official opinions of the Texas Attorney General on the interpretation of the law regarding public lands.Categories
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Austin Triangle Development Records
Documents the efforts of Austin Mayor Kirk Watson and Garry Mauro, Commissioner of the General Land Office to create a second mixed-use development on the land formerly used by the Austin State Hospital. The development, known as the Triangle was developed on acreage bordered by Lamar Blvd., Guadalupe St. and W. 45th St. The Collection also includes material relating to the first development, known as Central Park on Austin State Hospital land between bordered by Lamar Blvd., Guadalupe St., and W. 38th St.Categories
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Duplicate Certificate Records
Duplicate Certificate Vouchers were provided to grantees and/or their heirs who may have lost their original certificate. The Records contain affidavits and other documents attesting to the loss of a land certificate and eligibility for a duplicate to be issued by the General Land Office. The Records also include an early and incomplete index for voucher numbers 1-332 and a second, more complete index.Categories
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Jack Giberson Records
Jack Giberson (1919-2007), worked for the General Land Office for 41 years. During his career he served as Chief Clerk and First Deputy Land Commissioner. The Jack Giberson Papers include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, legal documents, legislation, administrative documents, maps, surveys, field notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, reports, and notes collected and created by Giberson during his employment at the Land Office.Categories
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Peters Colony Records
Peters Colony (also “Peters’ Colony”) was formed as a result of a contract (which was authorized by the Texas Congress on January 4, 1841) between William S. Peters and his associates, a group of English and American men, and the President of Texas, Mirabeau Lamar. It began on August 30, 1841. Three other contracts modifying the original would be signed followed by numerous legal battles, some remedied through the Texas Legislature. In the end, the colony created little to no income for its investors. It did, however, bring 2,205 families to Texas, distributing to them 879,920 acres of land.The records relating to Peter's Colony on file with the GLO mostly concern the portions of land that were given to the Texas Emigration and Land Company (TELC) in the early 1852. The bulk consists of field notes and affidavits from surveyors attesting to various boundaries of land within the Colony.
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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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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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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