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New York State Secretary of State Land Office Outgoing Letter Books

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Overview of the Records

Arrangement

Letterpress copies are arranged chronologically by date of correspondence.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence created by the Secretary of State's deputies in the course of managing the state's publicly-owned lands. Correspondence addresses such business as issuing of letters patent to purchasers of public lands; referral of real property title issues to appropriate standing committees of the Commissioners of the Land Office; distribution of rules and regulations governing applications for land grants; recording and filing of land title documents; distribution of field notes and survey maps; and responding to public inquiries regarding titles to real property.

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Each volume contains an alphabetical index to correspondents.

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