Scope and Content Note
This series consists of applications which are sworn statements giving name of applicant, date, description of parcel(s), and appraised value; attached are receipts from Treasurer's office for payment.
Most of the applications are for the purchase of "Prison Lands" in the Old Military Tract in Franklin County, 1887-1891. Applicants were required to be actual settlers on land from which all the timber had been removed. There are also: printed minutes of the Commissioners of the Land Office, 1893-1894, at which sales of state land were authorized; copies of miscellaneous deeds from the state, with related documents; and petition of John B. Van Allen for sale of certain parcels in Albany, with search and abstract, 1912. Documents are endorsed.
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