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function DbInfoMiniDescription() { document.write('This database contains information on Arkansas (U.S.A.) land records. The database comes from the Bureau of Land Management\'s <i>Arkansas Pre-1908 Homestaed and Cash Entry Patent and Cadastral Survey Plat Index</i>. Information recorded in the collection includes patentee name, land office, legal description, etc.'); }
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function DbInfoDescription() { document.write('The <b>patentee</b> was the first owner of property after the initial survey.  Once the patent was issued, the land became private property and was then sold with a deed.  The townships, the six-mile-square land blocks which were the original divisions of land from the federal land grants, were then divided into 36 one-mile squares.  The <b>township</b> numbering was the north-south numbering, starting from the center line.  The <b>range</b> numbering was the east-west numbering, starting from the center line.  The <b>section</b> is the one-mile-square portion (approximately 640 acres) of a township.  That was was also generally divided into 36 equal squares (each of which might be divided another 36 times).'); }
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function DbInfoWhereToGo() { document.write('More information, including scanned images of the documents referenced in this index, can be found at the Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office <a href="http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/">Land Patent Records Site</a>.'); }
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function DbInfoSourceInfo() { document.write('<DIV class="p_sourceTxtDiv">United States, Bureau of Land Management. <i>Arkansas Land Records</i> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997. Original data: United States, Bureau of Land Management. <i>Arkansas Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents</i>. General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1993.</DIV>'); }
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