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Austin City Lots and Outlots Records
The Records contain sales certificates and two bound volumes documenting the original sale of the lots and outlots of the City of Austin. The certificates have been digitized. See Related Materials.Categories
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Board of Veterans Journal
The Board of Veterans Records include 2 items. The Board of Veterans Journal is a summary of the review and approval or rejection of applicants by the board created by the Acts of 1879 and 1881. The Abstract of Claims is a loose collection of spreadsheet pages with one column for the "name of applicant" and a second for "action of Board."Categories
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Hard Mineral Patents
A listing of hard mineral patents granted to various energy companies.Categories
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Land Law Reference Books
Three volumes of legislative reference material used by the Legal Examiner of the General Land Office.Categories
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Land Office Accounts and Fees Books
The Land Office Accounts and Fees Books list daily transactions of fees paid to the General Land Office. The Land Office Fees and Salary Accounts of Land Classifiers book also lists the salaries paid to land classifiers employed by the GLO.Categories
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Land Revaluations Records
On two separate occasions the Texas Legislature gave relief to some land owners affected by drought conditions. The Revaluation Acts of 1925 and 1937 had the affect of renegotiating the terms of sale for lands that were worth significantly less then originally sold for because of drought conditions. of the 1930s. The revaluations entries list county, section, acreage, classification, previous sale price, and new valuation price.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 Public School and Asylum Lands
The Register is a record of applications made for the purchase of public school and ayslum lands made available by the passage of HB 71 on April 19, 1901.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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Robertson's Colony Records
Robertson's Colony is the eventual name of the colony located north of Austin's Colony. It was at first the Leftwich Grant, secured by Robert Leftwich and later owned by the Texas Association, aka the Nashville Company. Later an empresario contract for the area was secured by Sterling Robertson, which was then voided and became the Austin and Williams contract, aka the Upper Colony. Reversed later back to Robertson's control, colonists did eventual settle the area though there were many legal battles.The General Land Office has but a portion of the Robertson Colony Records (see Related Materials). The Records include contract records, correspondence, land titles, a register of surveys, a register of families, and a list and volume of transcription of the titles.
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School Land Classification and Reappraisment
Classifications and reappraisments for school, university and asylums lands were undertaken to determine the value of the lands for sale or lease. Lands were classified and valued based on their natural attributes: agricultural, grazing, timbered, and mineral. Agricultural and grazing lands were further subdivided into watered or dry.The School Land Classification and Reappraisment Records consist of 202 bound volumes and one unbound volume housed in 3 oversized boxes. The Records document work done by different GLO groups at different times from the end of the 19th century through the 1960s.
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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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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