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Land Office with a survey for patenting, the certificate could be
matched with the stub to establish its authenticity. This no doubt
discouraged printing and using bogus certificates. The Land Office
has preserved the 1278 Veteran Donation Vouchers. In these
voucher files are the applications for certificates, the required tes-
timony given the county judge, and the certification of the Vet-
erans Board. Each voucher file has the same number as the
number of the certificate which was issued as a result of the appli-
cation. For example, William Duty received Veteran Donation
Certificate No. i and his voucher file is also No. i.
By 1887 the unappropriated public domain of Texas was
nearing exhaustion. That is no doubt the reason the legislature
passed an act, approved February 15, 1887, repealing the "Veteran
Donation 1280 acre land certificate act."6 From August 12, 1879,
to June 30, 1887, under the acts of 1879 and 1881, 1278 Veteran
Donation Land Certificates were issued, but two of them were
cancelled before delivery and four were cancelled by decree of
district courts, leaving 1272 valid certificates. Of these 1272 cer-
tificates, 881 were made for 1280 acres, and 391 for 640 acres,
making a total of 1,377,920 acres granted by Veteran Donation
Certificates.7
To illustrate the material to be found in the Voucher Files the
contents of the following three may be noted: In Voucher File
No. 124 is the application of Jane Guyman, widow of William
Guyman. In the file is an affidavit made by Mrs. Guyman to W. H.
Bullock, County Judge of Wise County, on October 2, 1879. She
declared that all the property she owned was "one cow and calf,
one bed and fifteen dollars." Mrs. Guyman received certificate
No. 124 for 64o acres on November 17, 1879; Voucher File No.
39 reveals that Albino Cabasos appeared before County Judge
William N. Fant at Goliad and stated that he only possessed "one
horse saddle & bridle"; in Voucher No. 100oo is the application of
Nancy Kimbro, widow of Lemuel Kimbro, who, before County
Judge James P. Gibson of Cherokee County, stated that her prop-
erty consisted of "1 horse (pony) value $20."
6bid., IX, 804.
7This information was compiled from the writer's list of grantees (in numerical
order of certificate numbers) which was obtained from the stub-books and the
Veterans Donation Voucher Files.344
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