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Record Description : Documents which evidence the vesting of any right, title, or interest in real property belonging to or used by the State of Ohio. This record series includes Land Deeds and Land Leases which document the purchase, sale or lease of land by all divisions of the State of Ohio and include appraisals, encumbrances, fund transfers, plans, resolutions, Attorney General opinions, contracts and any other original documents related to the acquisition of real property by the State of Ohio. Included in this record series are the field notes, maps, records, documents, papers, and implements relating to or used in the survey of the public lands within the state, which were delivered to the executive of this state by the surveyor of the United States at Detroit, by order of the government of the United States, the records of field notes and other records of papers which have been added thereto, the records of deeds and other records or papers relating to the public lands originally deposited with the governor or secretary of state, and the records, maps, plats, papers, documents, and implements relating to the public lands in the Virginia military district in this state, from the United States land office at Chillicothe.