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Papers pertaining to caveats entered in the Land Office. In addition to notices of caveats entered, the papers include copies of surveys, warrants, explanations regarding the entry of caveats, and decisions in the cases. The papers cover the years between 1782 and 1923, with some years missing. The caveats were also indexed chronologically; see LOI 55.

These records contain an undated list containing three categories. In one is given those grants which were not signed or recorded; in another, those surveys for military officers which the governor refused to sign; and in the third, those surveys stayed by caveats and not patented. The first and third are divided into columns listing the name of the party concerned, the number of acres involved, the county in which the land was located, and the reason the document was not signed. The second section does not contain the column for county location. The majority of the entries are undated. The list is not signed.

Columned list recording the number of acres, the book and page reference, the number of the survey, the county in which the land is located, the final grantee, and the date of the grant. Most of the grants were issued to Henry Banks, including lands in Ohio and in Boutetourt, Greenbrier, Harrison, Henrico, Jefferson, Kanawha, Monongalia, Monroe, Montgomery, Randolph, Rockbridge, Russell, and Wythe counties.

Includes surveys lodged in the land office awaiting payment of fees. The name of the person for whom the survey was made, the type and numbre of the warrant on which it was based, the county in which the land was located, the metes and bounds of the land, the date on which the survey was made, and the names of the surveyor and his assistants are given on the survey.

Warrants from the register of the Land Office issued after notification by the auditor that the set fee had been paid into the treasury. They authorized any county surveyor to survey for the individual named the number of acres specified. The approximately 130 warrants were issued between 1788 and 1917, with numbers ranging from No. 58 to No. 32169.

These warrants were issued by the Register of the Land Office after notification by the auditor that the set fee had been paid into the commonwealth's treasury. The warrant then authorized any county surveyor to survey the number of acres specified for the individual named in the warrant. These records cover the period from 1779 Oct 15 to 1794 May 19; the bulk of the warrants are from between 1779 and 1783. The warrant numbers range between 174 and 23087.