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VOLUME XXVIII
WALLISVILLE, TEXAS
AUGUST 2006
No. 8
THE AGE
Established at Houston, May 15, 1871 by
Daniel L. McGary. Moved to Wallisville
March 15, 1897. Discontinued in 1908.
Reestablished by the Wallisville Heritage
Park, December 1, 1979. $1.68 per paper;
$20.00 for one-year subscription.
Wallisville Heritage Park
PO Box 16
Wallisville, TX 77597
Early Documents
Surrounding
Liberty & Liberty
County
THE TELEGRAPH & TEXAS
REGISTER
Saturday, July 29, 1837
Published at Houston, Texas
JOINT RESOLUTION
For the Incorporation of
the town of Liberty,
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
Republic of Texas, in Congress
assembled, That the citizens of the
town of Liberty be and they are hereby
declared a body corporate and public,
under the name and style of the
"Corporation of the Town of Liberty,"
who shall have the power of suing and
being sued, of pleading and being
impleaded, and to sell and dispose of
real and personal property within the
limits of said corporation.
SEC. 2. Be it further resolved, That it
shall be the duty of the citizens of said
corporation to elect seven trustees,
who shall select from their own body a
presiding officer or mayor, a treasurer,
and a secretary; they shall also
appoint a collector and constable; the
treasurer and collector being required
to give bonds as approved by said
trustees, in such amount as they
deem necessary, and to make reports
when required by the mayor, who
shall have the power when necessary
to supress riots and disturbances, to
call out the citizens of said
corporation, for the purpose of
restoring order.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the
first election shall be held under the
direction of the Chief Justice of the
county, after having given ten days
notice thereof, and annually after-
wards by the presiding officer, at least
ten days prior to the expiration of his
term of office, and that in the case of
death or resigation the vacancy or
vacancies shall be filled by new
elections to be ordered by the mayor.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That no
persons shall be eligible to hold an
office in said corporation, or to vote for
the members of the said body, unless
he shall have resided within said
corporation during the period of six
months immediately preceding such
election aid have acquired the rights
of citizenship, in conformity with the
laws of the? republic.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the trustees, from
time to time to pass such rules and
ordinance? for the regulation of the
police anc preservation of order within
the corporation limits as may be
necessary, to levy taxes for the
removal of nuisances and keeping the
streets and to prescribe penalties.
Provided further, that no tax shall be
levied unloss by consent of two-thirds
of the citizens present; said tax to be
assessed according to the valuation of
property; and when a meeting is
called for this purpose, the subject
must be stated in the notice, and for
the collection of which personal
property *i$ne shall be seized.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That
whereas there are four leagues of
land belonging to the said town which
are now useless, the trustees shall
and are hereby authorized and
empowered in connection with the
county court of the county of Liberty,
to alienate said lands, or such portion
thereof as» they may deem advisable;
the proceeds of such sale or sales to
be by them jointly appropriated to the
construction of a Court House, Jail,
and such other public buildings and
for such other purposes as they may
think proper; Provided always, that
those persons who have taken lots in
said Town shall have the right of
keeping the same, and it shall be the
duty of said commissioners and of the
county court, to issue titles to such
individuals upon their paying to the
trustees the amount of the valuation of
the lots so taken.
SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the
said trustees shall have the privilege
of establishing schools within said
corporation.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the
rules and ordinances of said
corporation shall not be contrary to the
constitution and rules of this republic.
Approved, June 10th, 1837.
B. T. ARCHER,
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
JESSE GRIMES,
President pro. tem. of the Senate
Signed: SAM HOUSTON,
President of the Republic of Texas
THE TELEGRAPH & TEXAS
REGISTER
Thursday, October 4,1837
Sale of Lots in the
TOWN OF UBERTY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY given that a
sale of the lots in the town of Liberty
will take place in said town, on the
25th day of October next, and contin^
ue from day to day, until a sufficient
number of lots are sold. This town is
the county seat and is situated in an
elevated and beautiful prairie, near
the east bank of the Trinity river, a x>ut
thirty miles above its mouth. The
country adjacent embraces som.* of
the richest cotton lands of Texas. The
climate is remarkably healthy, and the
water pure and wholesome. A channel
has recently been discovered at the
mouth of the Trinity, admitting vessels
drawing five feet water; this will permit
a direct communication to be opened
between this place and Galveston,
making this the depot of a very
extensive and fertile section of the
country. It is only forty miles from
Houston, and eighty from Ballou's
ferry, on the Sabine.
TERMS; - One-third of the purchase
money to be paid in hand, one-third in
three months, and the other in six
months. For the security of the
corportion, the title will not be issued
until the last payment is made; and
any person failing to make the second
or last payment, will forfeit the lot or
lots, together with the money already
paid.
October 1, 1837. 91 -t
D. P. COIT, Secretary
H. W. FARLEY, Mayor.
Note: This advertisement in the Tele-
graph & Texas Register tells us seve-
ral things. As noted in the previous
document, a Joint Resolution of the
Senate and House of Representatives
for the Republic of Texas fom ally
incorporated the "Town of Liberty" r^nd
instructed the voters of that town to
select seven trustees for the "Corpo-
ration." That was approved in June
1837 and promptly signed by Presi-
dent Sam Houston.
The Chief Justice [what we now call
the County Judge] for Liberty County
and the four county commissioners
then in office were further instructe d to;
call the election and oversee the
same. By the time this notice above
was signed on Oct. 1, 1837, it would
appear that the seven trustees [what
we now call council members) had
been duly elected, The Joint
Resolution also required the seven
trustees, once duly elected, to se'ect
from their number one individual to be,
the mayor of the town and another to
be the secretary. All of these things
would appear to have been
accomplished by the above date. Dr.
Henry Wise Farley appears here as
the mayor of the Town of Liberty.
Daniel P. Coit is listed as the
secretary. The Corporation apparently
decided to generate some revenue by
the sale of town lots. The terms are
not overly generous, although the
selling price for the lots is not given
here. What makes this notice
especially interesting to me is that this
is the earliest document I've run
across showing an individual as the
mayor of Liberty. Miss Miriam
Partlow's book, Liberty, Liberty
County and the Atascosito District,
which was published in 1974 by
Pemberton Press, gives a list of all
mayors and council members. But that
list begins with George Loving as the
first mayor in 1838. This document,
dated as it is in October 1837, would
suggest that Dr. Farley held the
mayor's office prior to Mr. Loving,
-oOo-
THE TELEGRAPH &
TEXAS REGISTER
Saturday, January 13,1838
J", .i • - • ««.,-• .-t-
»• UWI|4M«Vi a* •i«3Aia*
AN ACT
To Define the Boundary of the
County of Liberty,
SEC. 1, Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
Republic of Texas, in Congress
assembled, That the Territory included
in the following limits shall constitute
and compose the County of Liberty;
Beginning on the Gulf of Mexico at the
south western corner of the County of
Jefferson, thence north along the
western boundary line of said county
to the Big Sandy creek, (thence down
said creek with said county line, to its
entrance into the Neches River,)
thence up said river to the south
eastern corner of the County of
Houston, thence south west along the
southern boundary line of said county
to the Trinity River, thence across the
river in same direction to a point nine
miles distant, thence in a direct line to
the head of Cedar Bayou, thence
down said Bayou to its entrance into
the Gulf of Mexico, thence along said
Gulf with all of its meanderings
including the Trinity Bay to its place of
beginning.
JOSEPH ROWE,
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
S. H. EVERITT,
President pro. tem. of the Senate
Approved, Dec. 18, 1837
Signed: SAM HOUSTON
President of the Republic of Texas
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