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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
law. The empresario contracts authorized by the national decree No. 72
were recognized as well as its other provisions; the inchoate rights accruing
under it being morle particularly regulated by immaterial conditions and
prescriptions of fcrm inl their perfection. The settlers were required as an
acknowledgment to "pay to the State for each sitio of pasture land thirty
dollars, two dollars and a half for each labor withlout the facility of irrigation,
and tlllee dollars and a half for each one that clan be irrigatted, and so
on proportionably, according to the quantity alnd quality of the land distributed."
Here is the origin tl of the payment of what is commonly known
as '" government dues," which is still required by the State of Texas upon a
certain class of laud certificates.
We introduce articles 45 and 46 of this law by way of incidental information
upon two other subjects:
Art. 45. The government, in accord with the respective ordilnary ecclesiastics,
will take care to provide the new settlements with thle comtpetent
number of pastors, and, in accord with the same authority, shall propose
to the Legislature for its approbation the salary which the said pastors are
to receive, which shall be paid by the new settlers.
Art. 46. The new settlers, as regards the introduction of slaves, shall
subject thenselves to the existing laws and those which may hereafter be
established on the subject."
Instructions were issued in 1827 by the executive department of the
State of Coahuila and Texas, to the commissioners for tie partition of lands
among the colonists who had established, or who might establislh themselves
under this law. These instructions were merely directory as to the duty of
the commissioners in their official capacity.*
4. THE COLONIZATION LAW OF 1832, PASSED BY THE CONGRESS OF COAHUILA
AND TEXAS, WHICI REPEALED THIE LAWr o 1825.
This law, without changing the policy which seems to have conltolled
the government in the acquisition of population tlllroughri her schemnes of
colonization, prescribed more definitely than any previous law the manner
*To the above we will add, that in the instructions to land commissioners,
they were required to lay out towns on four league tracts, ,w'ith water and
timber to which all the population had access and an equal right-streets to be
broad-to cross each other at right angles-and suitable plazas were designated,
to be forever set apart to the public use for court-houses, churches, schools, etc.
All mines, salt lakes, etc., were reserved from location, and were to be accessible
to the public under certain restrictions. The wisdomi of this is seen in the
result of permitting the salt mines in El Paso Comnty to become privte property.
Again, no one man could acquire a title to mi.nre tllhan eleven lelaes of
land, and before the expiration of twerty years must alielnate two-thirds of it.
We have no restriction now, and as a result we r'ead of cattle kings and queenn,
fencing in royal domains. As an illustlration: Forty-seven )(persons own twothirds
of the land of fNeces County. WVil fi Kennely owns 186,2S8 acres, vtalued
for taxation at $94,943; and Pichard King owns 18S,435, assessed at $130,127.
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/160/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .