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320 TEXAS ALMANAC -1945-1946
The weight of judicial authority in this lishing a record title to all the land within
state seems to hold that a reasonable excess an excessive survey.
within the bounds of a survey belongs to the
owner thereof so long as it does not amount State's Interest.
to a fraud on the state. A few decisions have In summarizing the disposition of the Texas
intimated otherwise, however, and owners do public domain, we find that more than 50,-
not have muniments of title covering excess. 000,000 acres, which is molie than one fourth
To meet this situation, the Forty-Sixth the area of the entie state, has been set
Legislature, by the act of June 19, 1939, al- aside for public education. The State of
lowed the owners of surveys having excess to Texas owns an interest in, and the Commis-
pay for this excess at a price fixed by the sioner of the General Land Office has charge
School Land Board, composed of the Go-- of, more than 30,000,000 acres of this land
ernor, Attorney General and Commissioner of today. Of this 30,000,000 acres, the state has
the General Land Office, and receive in re- timber and surveyed school land to sell; oil,
turn a deed of acquittance to all the survey gas, sulphur, hard minerals and grass lands
from the state. This is purely voluntary on to lease. When you take into consideration
the part of the landowner and the money re- the fact that this land is scattered from the
ceived therefrom goes into the permanent blue waters of the Gulf to the plains of the
school fund. Panhandle, from the Rio Grande to the tall
More than 83,000 acres of excess valued at Piney Woods of East Texas, you can under-
$431,000 have been paid for in this manner stand the comining of the expression, "doing a
from Sept. 20, 1939, the inception of this act, land office business."
to January, 1945, and I believe that more and The table below summarizes the disposition
more landowners will take advantage of this of the Texas public domain from the begin-
measure when they realize its value in estab- ning of Spanish grants until Jan 1, 1945
DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF TEXAS UNDER THE GOVERNMENTS
OF THE REPUBLIC AND THE STATE Acres.
Total area of the state to three-mile coastal limit.........................................170,926,000
Additional area to three-league coastal limit.............................................. 1,761,000
Total area ... .... ................................ ....... ..........................172,687,000
Grants to promote citizenship and to induce immigration-Acres
By governments of Spain and Mexico....... ...................................26,280,000
Headrights and bounties .. .......................................... 36,876,492
Colonies- (Peter's, Mercer's, et al ) ......................................... 4,494,806
Homestead donations (pre-emptions) ......................................... 4,847,136
Donations to veterans-
San Jacinto veterans-Act of 1879 and 1881.................................. 1,169,382
Confederate veterans-Act of 1881........................................... 1,979,852
Sold to pay public debts by republic ....................................... 1,329,200
50c sales scrip act of 1879 and $2 sales scrip act of 1887 ...................... 1,660,936
Internal improvements-
State Capitol Building ................................................. 3,025,000
Irrigation, drainage, iron works, Kiamasha Road and sundry................... 4,088,640
To acquire transportation facilities
Grants to railroads........................................................... 32,153,878
For education-
State University and A. & M . ..... .......................................... 2,329,168
County school purposes .... ........................................... 4,229,166
Eleemosynary institutions (4) .. ....................................... 410,600
Publihe free school ... ................................................. 42,549,400
Total surveyed land ........ ........ ........ ..............................
Less conflicts (estimated at one-half of 1 per cent).................................
Net as per original surveys ...... .....................................
Excess (estimated at approximately 1 1 per cent)...... ............................
River beds and vacancies (estimated) .. ...........................................
Submerged coastal areas to three-league limit............................................
Total .................................. . ......... *. . *. . ...................FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS
The Eleventh Federal Reserve District in-
cludes all of Texas, the approximate northern
half of Louislana. southeast corner of Okla-
homa, approximate southern half of New
Mexico and southern one fourth of Arizona.
The Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas is dis-
trict headquarters with Federal Reserve Bank
branches at Houston, San Antonio and El
Paso.
Board of directors' Chin of Bd., Jay Tay-
lor, Amarillo, Dep Chin , J. R. Parten, Hous-
ton. Members Geo. A Hill Jr , Houston,
E. L. Kurth, Lufkin, J R Milam, Waco,
Walter P. Napier, San Antonio, Frank Tur-
ner, Decatur; J. E. Woods. Temple, G. A.
Frierson, Shreveport Ed H. Winton, Fort
Worth, is member of the Federal Advisory
Council.
Officials of the Federal Reserve Bank at
Dallas. Pres.. R R Gilbert. First Vice-Pres,
W. D. Gentry, V -P, R B Coleman, V -P.
and Sec. of Bd, W J Evans, V.-P., W. O.
Ford, V.-P. and Cashier, E B Austin, V-P.,
L G. Pondrom, V.-P., W. H Holloway, Asst.
V.-P., Morgan Rice, Asst. V -P, H. R. De-72,498,434
3,149,234
2,990,136
7,113,640
32,153,878
49,518,334
167,423.656
837,256
166,586,400
1,757,600
1,093,000
3,250,000
172,687,000Moss, Asst. Cashier, R. O. Webb, Asst. Cash-
ier, W. E Eagle, Asst. Cashier, Mac C
Smyth; Asst Cashier, Allen Sayles, Asst.
Cashier, C. M. Rowland; Gen. Auditor, Fred
T. Novey.
The Eleventh Federal Reserve District in-
cludes all of the State of Texas and the fol-
lowing parts of Louisiana, Oklahoma, New
Mexico and Arizona
Northern Louisiana (26 parishes)-Caddo,
Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, Union, More-
house, West Carroll, East Carroll, Bienville,
Lincoln, Ouachita, Richland, Madison, De
Soto, Red River, Jackson, Caldwell, Frank-
lin, Sabine, Natchitoches, Winn, Grant, La
Salle, Catahoula. Concordia and Tensas.
Southeastern Oklahoma (8 counties)-Coal,
Atoka, Pushmataha, McCurtain, Marshall,
Bryan, Choctaw and Johnston.
Southern New Mexico (18 counties)-Catron,
Socorro, Torrance. Guadalupe, Quay, Grant,
Sierra, Lincoln, De Baca, Roosevelt, Curry,
Hidalgo, Luna, Dona Ana, Otero, Chaves,
Eddy and Lea.
Southeastern Arizona (5 counties)-Pima,
Graham, Greenlee, Santa Cruz and Cochise.Subtotal
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