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Permalink Reply by Andreas Wiemer on October 27, 2012 at 8:33am

Land grant is authentic signed by Andrew Jackson.

Below is an article I wrote some years ago:

Land Grants signed by United States Presidents

Congress created the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office on April 25, 1812. The General Land Office was initially a bureau of and subordinate to the Treasury Department. By act of March 3, 1849 the Home (now interior) Department was created and was assigned the supervision of the General Land Office. The Commissioner of the Public Land Office was to perform “… all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States …”

Following a list of the early commissioner:

Edward Tiffin                                                   1812-1814

Josiah Meigs                                                   1814-1822

John McLean                                                   1822-1823

George Graham                                               1823-1830

Elijah Hayward                                                 1830-1835

On June 19, 1832, Elijah Haywood, Commissioner of the General Land Office, informed the U.S. Senate that there were 10,590 land patents in his office which had been written and recorded, awaiting the signature of the President. Both the House and the Senate passed resolutions:

"That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of relieving the President of the United States from signing patents issued for public lands, and of causing the same to be signed by some other officer of the Government."

On March 2, 1833, the Senate and House passed a bill:

 "… prescribing the mode by which patents for public lands shall be signed and executed”. That same day, President Andrew Jackson sent to the Senate his nomination of his secretary, Andrew J. Donelson to be the Secretary authorized under the act “prescribing the mode by which patents for public lands shall be signed and executed”. Therefore all Land Grants after this authorization are signed by a secretary.

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Permalink Reply by Paulrichards on December 13, 2016 at 7:20pm

Ok ad very bold for a land grantn

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