Part 3

1. THE SPANISH ARCHIVES. These archives contain some 4,000 original titles written in Spanish and issued by the Spanish and Mexican authorities when Texas was under their control. In addition, there are approximately 4,000 sets of field notes written in English by American Surveyors during the colonization program initiated by Spain and carried out by Mexico. These documents date as far back as 1745 but mainly encompass the period from 1823 to 1835. See Spanish translator.

2. MAP OF TEXAS SHOWING PARTS OF ADJOINING STATES, COMPILED BY STEPHEN F. AUSTIN. See chief of engineering division.

3. MUSTER ROLL OF THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS. See director of records division.

4. INSTRUMENT BELIEVED TO BE THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS from which the final draft was taken. See director of records division.

5. PATENT (a quitclaim deed) ISSUED BY THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS under President David G. Burnet. See director of records division.

6. PATENT ISSUED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS under Governor Sam Houston. Located in Milam Scrip 329. See chief file clerk.

7. COPY OF SAM HOUSTON’S WILL. Located in Nacogdoches I-1134. See chief file clerk.

8. COPY OF ROBERT E. LEE’S WILL. Located in Bexar III-6947. See chief file clerk.

9. CERTIFICATE TO SAMUEL G. POWELL, DATED FEBRUARY 3, 1854, FOR 320 ACRES OF LAND FOR BUILDING WITHIN THE STATE OF TEXAS THE STEAMBOAT “BETTY POWELL”. Located in Fannin Scrip 495. See chief file clerk.

10. INSTRUMENT EXECUTED IN LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, IN 1855, AND ACKNOWLEDGED BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, then American Consul in Liverpool. See director of records division.

11. ORNATE, BEAUTIFUL MAPS COMPILED BY PROFESSOR DOCTOR C. C. STREMME (see reference to Professor Stremme in note about Old Land Office Building on the back of picture of this structure). Tyler County map dated May, 1858. Houston County map dated October, 1868. See chief of engineering division.

12. MAP OF MASON COUNTY COMPILED BY F. H. ARLITT, 1859, NOTED FOR ITS BEAUTY. See chief of engineering division.

13. THOMAS TOBY SCRIP NUMBER 1 FOR 1000 ACRES OF LAND. Located in Milam Scrip 87. See chief file clerk.

14. PAYROLL RECORD OF WILLIAM S. PORTER (O. HENRY), 1887. See director of records division.

15. PICTURE OF DRAFTSMEN IN GENERAL LAND OFFICE, 1887, INCLUDING WILLIAM S. PORTER (O. HENRY). See chief clerk.

16. MAP OF KENT COUNTY, 1889, BY WILLIAM S. PORTER (O. HENRY). See chief of engineering division.

APPENDIX

Table A.

DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF TEXAS UNDER THE REPUBLIC AND THE STATE

Table B.

MINERAL ESTATE

LEASED MINERAL ESTATE

PRODUCING ACREAGE

ANNUAL ROYALTY Period Ending August 31, 1956

Table A. DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF TEXAS UNDER THE REPUBLIC AND THE STATE

Acres

Grants to promote citizenship and to induce immigration. By Spain and Mexico 26,280,000 Headrights and bounties 36,876,492 Colonies (Peter’s, et al) 4,494,806 Homesteads (Pre-emptions) 4,847,136 72,498,434 Donations to veterans. San Jacinto veterans (Acts of 1879 and 1881) 1,169,382 Confederate veterans (Acts of 1881) 1,979,852 3,149,234 Sold to pay public debts by Republic 1,329,200 50 cents Sales Scrip Act of 1879 and $2 Sales 1,660,936 Scrip Act of 1887 2,990,136 Internal improvements. Irrigation, drainage, canals, industrial, 4,088,640 highways, etc. Grants to railroads 32,153,878 36,242,518 State Capitol Building 3,025,000 3,025,000 Education. University of Texas 2,329,168 Public Schools 42,561,400 County Schools 4,229,166 Eleemosynary Institutions 410,600 49,530,334 Total surveyed land 167,435,656 Less conflicts (estimated at ½ of 1%) 837,256 Net acreage in original surveys 166,598,400 Excesses (estimated at approximately 1.1%) 1,747,600 River beds and vacancies (estimated) 1,091,000 Submerged coastal area to 3-league limit 4,145,674 Total 173,682,674

Table B.

MINERAL ESTATE Acres

A. Permanent School Fund 1. River Beds 1,000,000.00 2. Unsold surveyed P.F.S.L. 878,415.00 3. Sold P.F.S.L. with all minerals reserved 7,281,949.00 4. Free Royalty Lands 729,339.00 5. Bays and Inlets 1,536,900.00 6. Area from Coast to 3-League Limit 2,608,774.00 Total 14,035,377.00 B. Permanent University Fund—All Minerals 1. Sold 3,377 2. Unsold 2,127,700 2,131,077.00 C. A&M Fund 35,008.00 D. East Texas State Teachers’ College Fund 337.00 E. Prison Fund 73,099.00 F. Game & Fish Fund 69,076.00 G. State Parks Board 30,580.00 H. State Hospital and Special Schools 12,903.00 Total acres in Mineral Estate 16,387,457.00

LEASED MINERAL ESTATE

A. School Lands 4,275,703.00 B. University Lands 667,496.00 C. A&M Lands 2,017.00 D. East Texas State Teachers’ College Lands 337.00 E. Prison Lands 11,818.00 F. Game & Fish Lands 2,838.00 G. State Park Lands 1,531.00 H. State Hospital and Special Schools Lands 4,634.00 Total Leased Acreage 4,966,374.00

PRODUCING ACREAGE

A. School Lands 428,177.00 B. University Lands 252,230.00 C. A&M Lands 1,579.00 D. Prison Lands 5,889.00 E. State Park Lands 112.00 F. State Hospital and Special Schools Lands 356.00 Total Leased Acreage 688,343.00

ANNUAL ROYALTY Period Ending August 31, 1956 Oil Gas Total

A. School Lands $11,987,467.00 $2,115,954.00 $14,103,421.00 (Other Royalty) 288,351.00 B. University Lands 13,132,713.00 470,650.00 13,603,363.00 C. A&M Lands 8,664.00 - 0 - 8,664.00 D. Prison Lands 39,957.00 993.00 40,950.00 E. State Park Lands 56.00 - 0 - 56.00 F. State Hospital and 9,790.00 - 0 - 9,790.00 Special Schools Lands Total Annual Royalty $25,178,647.00 $2,587,597.00 $28,054,595.00

AUTOMOBILES—REGULATING RUNNING OF SAME. H. B. No. 93.] Chapter XCVI.

An Act to regulate the running of automobiles and motor vehicles, and the requiring of the owner of such machine to register his name and the number of his machine with the county clerk of the county in which he resides, for the violation of which a penalty is provided.

Section 1. _Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:_ All owners of automobiles or motor vehicles shall before using such vehicles or machines upon the public roads, streets or driveways, register with the county clerk of the county in which he resides, his name, which name shall be registered by the county clerk in consecutive order in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall be numbered in the order of their registration, and it shall be the duty of such owner or owners to display in a conspicuous place on said machine the number so registered, which number shall be in figures not less than six inches in height. The county clerk shall be paid by such owner or owners a fee of fifty cents for each machine registered.

Sec. 2. No automobile or motor vehicle shall be driven or operated upon any public road, street or driveway at a greater rate of speed than eighteen miles an hour, or upon any public road, street or driveway within the built up portions of any city, town or village, the limits of which shall be fixed by the municipal officers thereof, at a greater rate of speed than eight miles an hour, except where such city or town may by an ordinance or by-law allow a greater rate of speed, provided the speed limit shall not apply to race courses or speedways.

Sec. 3. No person in charge of an automobile or motor vehicle on any public road, street or driveway shall drive the same at any speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the public road, street or driveway by others, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person thereon.

Sec. 4. All drivers or operators of automobiles or motor vehicles are prohibited from racing upon any public road, street or driveway.

Sec. 5. Any person driving or operating an automobile or motor vehicle shall at the request, or signal by putting up the hand, or by other visible signal from a person riding or driving a horse or horses or other domestic animal, cause such vehicle or machine to come to a standstill as quickly as possible and to remain stationary long enough to allow such animal to pass.

Sec. 6. Every driver or operator of an automobile or motor vehicle shall have attached thereto a suitable bell or other appliance for giving notice of its approach, so that when such attachment is rung or otherwise operated it may be heard a distance of three hundred feet, and shall carry a lighted lamp between one hour after and one hour before sunrise.

Sec. 7. Every one who violates any of these six sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

Sec. 8. The near approach of the end of the session and the demand for immediate legislation on this subject constitutes an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read in each house of the Legislature on three several days be suspended, and this act take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.

Approved April 15, 1907. Takes effect ninety days after adjournment.

_TEXAS FIRST TRAFFIC LAW_ PASSED BY 30TH LEGISLATURE, 1907

_Little did this group of Sunday drivers realize they were making history one day 56 years ago when they stopped to have their picture taken. But today the original photograph, in the form of a glass plate, is kept on display at the Dallas Historical Society Museum as the first automobile to be licensed in Dallas County. Marvin Bradshaw, Right of Way Agent at Dallas in District 18 of the Texas Highway Department, visited the museum and asked permission to take a picture of the picture. Under the supervision of a museum attendant, the glass plate was taken outside in the sunlight, where Bradshaw placed a piece of sensitive paper under the plate to obtain a “sun proof.” A temporary image was then taken to the photo lab where camera copy was made of it. The car was registered under the name of J. M. Oran in 1907._

COURTESY TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Transcriber’s Notes

—Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.

—Silently corrected a few palpable typos.

—Transcribed handwritten in-photo captions.

—In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.