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The subsequent disposal of that formerly-federal property should be recorded in local '''county''' deeds, mortgages, property tax records, and plat maps.
The subsequent disposal of that formerly-federal property should be recorded in local '''county''' deeds, mortgages, property tax records, and plat maps.


=== Centents of case files ===
=== Contents of case files ===
 
Case files can include a variety of record types. Military bounty land case files will have difference kinds of records than homesteads, cash entries, mining, or timberland cases. ''For example'',
 
:*'''Military bounty land''' case files can include warrants, treasury certificates, exchange certificates, and applications.
:*'''Cash entry''' may include an application, receipt, warrant for survey, survey, testimonies, affidavits, newspaper notifications, and naturalization papers.<br>
 
In addition to the case file, an entry would always be made in the appropriate [[Tract books|tract book]].


=== How to obtain a case file  ===
=== How to obtain a case file  ===
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