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Item An Inventory of the Public Land Surveys Records for Minnesota: The Special Instructions(Minnesota Department of Transportation, 2008-01) Squires, RodThis research report makes a preliminary inventory of these records, particularly those housed in the voluminous correspondence files kept by the following individuals: the Surveyors General of Wisconsin and Iowa, which are now housed in the Iowa State Archives in Dubuque, Iowa; the Surveyors General of Minnesota, which are now housed in the Minnesota State Archives in the Minnesota History Center in St Paul; and the Commissioners of the General Land Office, which are now housed in the National Archives, Washington D.C. The research also makes recommendations regarding future efforts to make such records widely available in an electronic format.Item The Public Land Survey Records in Minnesota: An Inventory and Description of the Deputy Surveyor Contracts in the Minnesota Historical Society Collections(Center for Transportation Studies, 2012-01) Squires, RodThis research report catalogs and describes those contracts awarded to individuals to carry out the public land surveys in Minnesota currently stored in the Minnesota History Center.Item Reconciling the Public Land Surveying Records in Minnesota(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2014-01) Squires, RodThis report illustrates the public land surveying process in Minnesota by describing the records associated with the surveys carried out by six deputy surveyors.