Scope and Content Note
This register lists lands sold by the Surveyor General. The state acquired the lands sold by mortgage foreclosure, escheat, and conveyances to commissioners of the Canal Fund and the Literature Fund.
Each entry gives date of sale; name of obligor of mortgage bond; location of lands sold; acreage; date of payment; amount paid; amount of bond to state (three times amount of sale price); date of delivery of deed; name of previous obligor of reverted lands (if any); date of reversion; and amount of mortgage principal due at time of reversion.
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