The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 1, July 1897 - April, 1898 Page: 99
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Enduring Laws of the Reublic.
ed shall make out a complete description of the land so surveyed,
and a neat and correct map of the same, and deposit them, together
with the field notes, in the General Land Office of this Republic;
shall also take and subscribe to this oath or affirmation: 'I, A. B.,
do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have well and truly discharged
my duties to the best of my knowledge, skill, and ability, and that
the field notes and description of said land are as correct as 1
could make them. So help me God.' Which said oath is to be
taken before a Chief Justice of the County Court and deposited in
the Land Office; and the surveyors of the different counties to sur-
vey the lands contemplated by this act shall take and subscribe
the same oath, which shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the
County Court.
"Section 6. Be it further enacted, That none of the lands appro-
priated and set apart by this act for the purpose of education
shall be disposed of in any manner except by lease until the expira-
tion of three years, and none of said lands shall be disposed by
lease for a longer term than three years.
"JOHN M. HANSFORD,
"Speaker House of Representatives.
"DAVID G. BURNET,
"Prest. Senate.
"Approved Jan. 26, 1839.
"MIRABEAU B. LAIA R."
An amendatory act by the next Congress, approved February 5,
1840, made the chief justice and two associate justices of each
county ex officio a board of school commissioners, and added an-
other league to the three leagues before granted; making it the
duty of the school commissioners to have said lands located and
surveyed as early as might be convenient, and to organize any parts
of their several counties into school districts for the purpose of
establishing schools in the same, whenever in their opinion the
population or interests of education required it.
None but graduates of some college or University might teach in
the academic schools, while for the common schools the teacher
had to give evidence of a good moral character, and capacity to
teach reading, writing, English grammar, arithmetic, and geo-
graphy.
The following is the educational endowment under the present
Constitution as defined in Article VII:
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 1, July 1897 - April, 1898, periodical, 1897/1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101009/m1/116/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.