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312 THE TEXAS ALMANAC.-1939.
President Houston advocated the sectionizing
of the state during his first administration,
but Congress refused to adopt the measure
with the result that our land lines can not
always be determined without an interposing
decree of court.
Method of Archiving.
The Spanish and Mexican systems of archiv-
ing has, in a large measure, been followed by
the Land Office. It is the best in the world,
for the reason forgeries are almost impossi-
ble. To explain: A Mexican title consists of
the original papers, including the application,
the decree approving it, the order of survey,
the field notes, and the Titulo-the whole
being termed the "Expediente" or Protocol.
These original papers were kept in the ar-
chives, and a copy called the "Testimonio"
was delivered to the grantee. The term "Tes-
timonio" appearing in a title should not be
translated. It is a term of accepted and well-
understood certain significance in judicial
circles. Following this system the Land Office
requires the original certificate, by virtue of
which the survey was made, the field notes,
and the transfers of the certificate or land to
be filed, and if all these papers are regular,
the patent is now issued in duplicate--one
preserved for the record, and the other mailed
to County Clerks for recording and delivery
to the grantee. Prior to 1919 patents were
recorded in longhand.
Grants to Schools.
Our grants for educational purposes may be
summed up as follows: First, four leagues to
each county and fifty leagues for a State Uni-
versity. Grants to private institutions, as
De Kalb College and Ruterville College, were
made. More than half of the 100,000 acres set
apart for the orphan asylum was patented to
Bayland's Orphans' Home. In 1853 one half
of the surveys made by the railroad companies
and other public service corporations were
reserved to the state, and later nine out of
every ten reserved sections were set apart for
the public free school, and one out of every
ten for the State University. In 1876 the Con-
stitution set apart 1,000,000 acres to the State
University, in lieu of the tenth section pre-
viously granted. The Constitution also grantedone half of the public domain then remaining
to the public free school fund, and the tenth
section previously granted the University. In
1883 the Legislature made an additional grant
of 1,000,000 acres to the University.
TABULATION. Acres.
Grants by Spain and Mexico ........ 26,280,000
The State Umversity, by the Republic . 221,400
The State University (1876), Constitu-
tion 1,000,000
The State University (1883), Legislature 1,000,000
Kiamasha road ................... 27 000
To build the Capitol .............. 3,050,000
Parker County courthouse ............ 320
Palo Pinto County courthouse.......... 320
San Jacinto veteran donation.......... 1,169,382
Disabled Confederates ................ 1,979,852
To pay public debt .............. 1,660,936
Homestead donations (pre-emption) .... 4,847,136
Internal improvements (irrigation, etc.) 4,061,000
Counties for school purposes........... 4,229,166
Headrlght and bounfties ............ 36,876,492
Colonies (Peters, Mercer, et al.)....... 4,494,806
Railroads .......................... 32,153,878
Asylums (four)...................... 400,000
Public free school..................... 42,400,556
Total surveyed..................165,852,244
Public Free School Land.
Area survey ...................42,401,857.00
Sold and patented ................23,874,905.00
Sold and not paid for................17,924,232.00
Unsold 602,720.00
Area sold with full reservation of the
minerals and subject to lease by
the owner of the soil .. 3,489,630.07
Area repurchased in which the state
has a reservation of one sixteenth
of the oil and gas . 3,901,190.20
Area purchased under the act of 1931
in which the state has a free roy-
alty in all minerals 1,301.00
Area in which the state owns all the
minerals 602,720.00
Unsurveyed areas can not be estimated.
Practically all of the public free school land has
been sold. The unsold land lies chiefly in the Big
Bend country, and is estimated at 500,000 acres.
Slightly over two million acres of the University
grant is unsold. The act of Feb. 23, 1900, appro-
riated all of the public domain then remaining
o the public free school fund. For that reason
there has been no land subject to homestead dona-
tion since. (Foregoing figures as of 1932.)State and County Farm and
Below is list of chief executives of exten-
sion staff in agriculture and home economics,
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas,
College Station, Texas, and United States
Department of Agriculture:
Director of Service: H. H. Williamson;
executive assistant, D. L. Weddington, Col-
lege Station, Texas.
District agents are as follows, farm agent
mentioned first in each instance followed by
name of home demonstration agent.
Dist.; Farm Agent; Home Agent-
1. P. D. Hanna; Ruby Mashburn.
2. K. J. Edwards; Lida Cooper.
3. J. A. Scofield; Vida Moore.
4. G. W. Arms; Minnie May Grubbs.
5. Geo. W. Johnson; Kate Adele Hill.
6. J. D. Prewit; Ruth Thompson.
7. W. I. Glass; Maurine Hearn.
8. M. T. Payne; Zetha McInnis.
9. T. B. Wood; Beulah Blackwell.
10. E. C. Martin; Myrtle Murray.
11. R. S. Miller; Mae Belle Smith.
12. O. G. Tamlinson; Bennie Campbell.
Following is a list of county agricultural
and home demonstration agents, as of Jan.
15, 1939; in eaeh instance the order of men-
tion is (1) county; (2) name of agricultural
agent; (3) name of home demonstrationHome Demonstration Agents.
agent; (4) address of county demonstration
office.
County: Farm Agent; Home Agent, Address--
Anderson: D. R. Carpenter; Lily M. Morriss; Pal-
estine.
Andrews: See Ector.
Angelina: O. C. LaGrone; Mrs. K. Knox; Lufkin.
Aransas: See San Patricio.
Archer: C. W. Wilhoit; B. McCurdy; Archer City.
Armstrong: *P. J. Mims, Claude.
Atascosa: R. J. Meitzen; L. L. Reed, Jourdanton.
Austin: W. E. A. Meinscher; V. McKenzie, Bell-
ville.
Bailey: *F. R. White, Muleshoe.
Bandera: H. F. Schlemmer; M. Pfluger, Bandera.
Bastrop: L. M. Gandy; Y. Giesecke, Bastrop.
Baylor: W. W. Evans: F. Johnson, Seymour.
Bee: J. P. Forgason; Blanche Crumpler, Beeville.
Bell: Edmund Singleton; Tina Stewart, Belton.
Bexar: H. A. Fitzhugh, IF. W. Mally, Marie
Strange, San Antonio.
Blanco: *R. B. Jenkins, Johnson City.
Borden: *E. B. McLeroy, Gail.
Bosque: E. R. Lawrence; Mrs. Nan J. Mangold,
Meridian.
Bowie: *A. B. Emmons, New Boston.
Bowie: tMrs. Ollyne Jeffries, Texarkana.
Brazoria: W. S. Millington; Ora Slone, Angleton.
Brazos: C. L. Beason; Velma Erisman, Bryan.
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