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the State in installments of four, five, and six years, applicants
for a league must pay him $60, the commissioner $15 and the
secretary who filed the application and translated and recorded
the papers $10.64 Two years later he announced slight modifica-
tions of this schedule,65 and in November, 1829, put into effect the
scale that seems to have continued thereafter. This provided that
immigrants must first file information concerning the number,
age, and sex of their families and dependents, their occupations,
place from which they emigrated, date of arrival in the colony.
and certificate of Christianity, morality, and steady habits. If this
was found satisfactory, they were given a certificate stating that
they had been received by Austin as colonists, which entitled them
to select for themselves any unappropriated land in the colony.
For this certificate they paid Austin's secrtary $2. Having made
their selections, they presented through the secretary a formal
petition to the commissioner for a title. For the clerical labors
involved in this, including translations, they paid the secretary
$5, signed a note promising to p.ay him $5 more when the title
was delivered, and signed a note for $50 to Austin, payable $10
on receipt of title and the balance in one year. "The above," ex-
plained Austin, "is a compensation for the labor of translating
and attending to getting the titles for the applicant, which I am
not bound to do, as empresario, unless paid for it."66 In addi-
tion to this there was the commissioner's fee, fixed biy law at $15
for a, league of pasture land and $2 to $2.50 for a labor of farm-
ing land ;" the surveyor's fee of $4 a mile; and the cost of stamped
6"Regulations to ,be observed by those desiring land in Austin's Second
Colony," April -, 1825. Austin Papers, miscellaneous. Saucedo seems
to have approved this October 17, 1825.
""Notice," April 16, 1827. Austin Papers, miscellaneous.
"sPrinted notice, dated November 20, 1829, pasted inside the front cover
of "applications for land in Austin's colony, Book A," General Land
Office. Austin suggested the following form of application:
"To Mr. S. F. Austin, Empresario--I have emigrated to this 'Colony,
as one of the colonists whom you are authorized by Government to in-
troduce; and I request that you will examine my recommendations, and
that if found to be agreeably to law, receive me and my family under
your contracts with the Government. I agree to the terms published
by you on the 20th November, 1829; I am ready to take the oath pre-
scribed by the 'Colonization Law."
"Decree No. 62, Laws of Coahuila and Texas, May 15, 1828, in Gam-
mel, Laws of Texas, I, 216.24-0
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