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HOW LANDS CAN BE APPROPRIATED FOE PRIVATE USE.
IN HONOR OF PRESIDENT BURNET.
At the opening of the District Court of Galveston county, the Hon. George E. MIann
presiding, on the sixth of December, 1870, the announcement of the death of the
Hon. David G. Burnet having been made, it was, upon motion, ordered by the Court
that; said court do adjourn for the day, in respect for the memory of the deceased,
and that a committee, consisting of Thomas M. Jack, A. H. Willie and George M.
Flournoy, be appointed to report resolutions expressive of the sentiments of the Bar
on the solemn occasion.
Thereupon the committee reported the following resolutions:
Resolved, That in the death of David G. Burnet, Texas has lost one of her earliest,
most devoted and gifted sons.
Resolved, That as a citizen of the Republic, and as President of the Republic, he
acted well his part, and merits the gratitude of his people.
Resolved, That his learning, refinement, culture, and all his rare and varied gifts of
mind, kindle within us a sentiment of just pride in ranking him as a member of the
bar of Texas, and make us mourn his loss.
Resolved, That his courtesy, kindness, unbounded charity, and all the other Chris-
tian virtues which marked his long and eventful life, constitute a good and great
character, and will afford us in the future, as in the past, an example to be loved and
imitated. '
Resolved, That the Court be requested to direct that these resolutions be spread
upon the records of this court, and that the clerk be requested to furnish a copy to
the press for publication.
THOMAS I. JACK,
A. H. WILLIE, Committee.
GEO. M. FLOURNOY,
HOW PUBLIC LANDS IN TEXAS CAN BE APPROPRIATED BY INDIVIDU-
ALS FOR PRIVATE USE.
The question as to the manner of becoming owners of public lands is fre-
quently asked by immigrants, and as a great many persons from other States
are now looking to Fexas for future homes, information on this subject will
be of interest.
The public domain of Texas yet unappropriated is estimated at about ninety
millions of acres, though the amount can not be stated with any exactness,
because the system of laying off the public land in townships, sections, etc.,
has never been adopted, and it has therefore never been surveyed. But any
individual who has a claim to public land makes his own selection, which he
must have surveyed at his own expense, and thus the public domain is torn
to pieces in all manner of shapes and forms, every claimant taking what suits
him best, wherever it may be, though subject, of course, to the laws prescrib-
ing the legal process of locating land claims.
Any individual can become the legal owner of parts of the public domain
in two ways, viz : by locating land certificates, or by settling upon the land
under the pre-emption law.
LOCATION OF LAND CERTIFICATES.
The present Constitution of the State prohibits the sale of land certificates
or scrip by the government, but there are, however, many land certificates
heretofore granted that have not yet been located, and which can be bought
in open market. They are of the following denominations, viz :
Headright certificates, first class, for one league and one labor, or 4605 acres
Headright certificates, first class, for one league, or ............4428 acres
Headright certificates, first class, for one-third league, or ........1476 acres
Headright certificates, first class, for one labor, or ............... 177 acres
Headright certificates, second class, for .......................1280 acres
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