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G-LD-1, G-LD-2, G-LD-4 stand open; G-LD-5 stands open on a print settler
No first entry for the townsite quarters is asserted here — because the search that would name it could not be executed, and a non-search is not a negative. The Bureau of Land Management's GLO Records system is the named settler for the first entries on the townsite quarters (G-LD-1), for the floating grants' locations (G-LD-4), and for the survey record behind the taking's thinnest margin (G-LD-2). The carrier state is printed exactly, and the parameters that must be run stand on the record: patents — Indiana, Second Principal Meridian, T36N R2E, Section 34 then Section 35 whole, narrowed to the east half of the southeast quarter and the southwest quarter; surveys — the same township, for the original plat and field notes. The completeness limit is itself established from the custodians' own guides, read whole: the GLO site "only indexes patented or completed land entries" — cancelled entries and expired leases are not indexed — and the purchase dates live in the State's records, the Indiana Digital Archives' La Porte–Winamac tract-book database of 48,562 records (the district's first sale 12 August 1833; the office closed 31 January 1855), with its own caveat printed: a significant portion of the district's land was previously offered by the Crawfordsville and Fort Wayne offices, some 500,000 acres actually purchased, and those sales are not in the La Porte–Winamac records. The township's one worked federal anchor stands re-corroborated and at its own size: Samuel Huggart's La Porte Cash Certificate No. 2986 of 11 September 1834, the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 29 — it proves the office, the township and the certificate series, and it is not a townsite-quarter entry and is not inflated into one. For the floating grants, the printable sentence is the narrowed one: no floating grant is located in Union Township by any treaty text, and none was located there in any source reached (a web-search negative, printed at that strength); the stronger sentence — that none was ever located in T36N or T35N R2E — still requires the executed run. For the margin, the web-strength sub-question is answered negatively — the system exposes no T36N R2E plat date, surveyor or headwater notation by text fetch — and the settler set is named in order: a live GLO Surveys session; the National Archives' RG 49 Indiana plats and field notes (the township plats and field-note volumes are Archives-held); the State Archives' PLSS microfilm. The Michigan Road selections on the townsite sections (G-LD-5) stand open on a different ground, stated structurally: Michigan Road lands were State lands, granted under the 1826 treaty and the Act of 2 March 1827 and sold by the State — 170,580 acres on the Historical Bureau's marker text — so they cannot surface as federal patents in GLO at all; their published record is a print holding, the State Board of Accounts' 1914 Michigan Road Lands and its index-and-maps report at the Indiana State Library (IND Q 912.772 I385m / I385mi), with the State Land Office selection registers at the State Archives beside it. No statement, positive or negative, about a selection on Sections 34/35 is printable.