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A land grant is a gift of real estate—land or its use privileges—made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service. Grants of land are also awarded to individuals and companies as incentives to develop unused land in ...
Rowland, usually referred to as "John Roland" in the land grant records, was a grantee of Rancho La Puente. He sold his shares to Naglee, McDermott and Patterson. The grant was a nine square league sobrante (surplus land remaining) from Rancho Cañada de San Felipe y Las Animas made in 1839, and Rancho Cañada de Pala made in 1839. When Rowland ...
The California Commission records do not support that Workman received documentation in 1842 supporting his rights to any part of the grant with Rowland before the 1845 confirmation. The first petition and title refer to "he" or "Roland", whereas the judicial title version of the grant refers to "they."
Land grant records for private land states are generally found in state government archives. [2] Although classified as a private land state by the federal government, some sources however refer to Texas as a "public land state", on the grounds that a significant proportion of state lands are owned by the state government; these lands were ...
Illustration of railroad land grant layout The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 (signed by President Abraham Lincoln ) was the first major land grant specifically for the transcontinental railroad . This act provided surveyed, public lands for a railroad right-of-way to build rail systems, and millions of acres to raise the capital needed to build ...
Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases. After Mexico achieved independence, the Spanish grants became actual land ownership grants. Following the Mexican–American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored.