The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 1, July 1897 - April, 1898 Page: 98
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98 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
veyed and set apart for the purpose of establishing a primary school
or academy in said county, which said land shall be located and
surveyed by the county surveyor or his deputy in each county, and
to be paid the fees now alowed by law under the land law, out of
the county treasury; provided, there is that quantity of good, va-
cant land in the counties; and further provided, that said land may
be surveyed in any sized tracts; provided, that said lands shall not be
surveyed in tracts less than one hundred and sixty acres.*
"Section 2. Be it further enacted, That when there is not a suffi-
cient quantity of good land that is vacant in any county, the County
Court of such counties shall be, and they are hereby empowered
and required to have surveyed upon any of the vacant lands of this
Republic, said quantity of land, and pay the expenses of the land
out of the county treasury.
"Section 3. Be it further enacted, That when said lands are sur-
veyed in acordance with this act, the surveyor shall return a correct
description of the same, with the field notes of the survey, to the
clerk of the County Court, who shall record the same and forward a
transcript of the same to the Commissioner of the General Land
Office after it is recorded, with his certificate and seal of office
thereto attached; and when the lands so surveyed are not situated
in the county for which it is surveyed, the description and field
notes shall be recorded in the county where it is surveyed, as well
as in the county for which it is surveyed, and forwarded to the
Land Office as above described.
"Section 4. Be it further enacted, That the President of the Re-
public be and he is hereby authorized and required to appoint a
.surveyor and have surveyed on and from any of the vacant lands of
this Republic, fifty leagues of land, which is to be set apart and
fis hereby appropriated for the establishment and endowment of two
Colleges or Universities, hereafter to be created;T and that the
President is hereby authorized to draw upon the Treasury of this
Republic for such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for
defraying the expenses to be incurred by locating and surveying
said lands.
"Section 5. Be it further enacted, That said surveyor so appoint-
* Laws of the Republic of Texas, first session Third Congress, p. 134.
t Twenty leagues in Cullen's bill.
$ " One to be established in the eastern and the other in the western part
of Texas," as in the original bill, was stricken out on its passage. Senator
L. T. Wigfall, in his report on the university in the Seventh Legislature,
held that the striking out the above clause indicated clearly that it was not
intended to have two universities in different parts of Texas, but that the
"two universities, as in the law, meant a university for each sex if neces-
sary, one male and the other female." Coeducation solved this difficulty.
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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/m1/115/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.