land offices

land offices
Government offices, administered by Bureau of Land Management, established principally in the Western States, for the transaction of local business relating to the survey, location, settlement, pre-emption, and sale of the public lands. A former primary function of these offices was to administer land grants

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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