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	Record Group Number:	000593
	Series/Collection Number:	.S 914
	Creator:	Florida. Trustees of Internal Improvement Fund.
	Title, Dates:	Secretaries correspondence, 1842-1910.
	Amount:	67.50 cubic ft.
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	Organization/Arrangement:	Chronological.
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	Biographical/Historical:	The General Assembly of 1850 created the Internal Improvement Board to manage the swamp and overflow lands and the 500,000 acres of public lands transferred to state ownership when Florida entered the Union (Ch. 332, Laws). In 1854, the Internal Improvement Fund was created to control the funds already accumulated and any future funds resulting from sales (Ch. 610, Laws). The Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund was also established and was given the power to transfer and sell lands; to collect revenues from railroad companies; to approve the building of railroads, bridges, and canals; and to invest surplus monies in United States stocks, stocks of other states, or internal improvement bonds.
	Summary:	This series contains the correspondence maintained by the Secretaries of the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund from 1842 to 1910. Although some of the correspondence precedes the date of the creation of the Trustees, it pertains to the acquisition and disposition of land. The series includes correspondence between the Register of Public Lands and state agents. The agents surveyed the land and reported to the Trustees the various land improvements made by settlers. The series also contains some correspondence dealing with several railroad companies' claims to land, the annual reports of some railroads, applications for preemption, land claim applications, abstracts of land sales, abstracts of school lands, and school land reports.
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	Subject Access Fields:	Railroads Florida Public land sales Florida Land settlement Florida Swamplands.
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