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County-
Motley .......
Nacogdoches .....
Navarro .........
Newton .........
Nolan ...........
Nueces ........
Ochiltree .......
Oldham . .......
Orange ........
Palo Pinto...... .
Panola ......... .
Parker .........
Parmer ....... .
Pecos ... ..
Polk ............
Potter ....
Presidio .. ......
Rainms .......
Randall .........
Reagan ..... ....
Real.........
Red River .......
Reeves ..........
Refugio ........
Roberts
Robertson .......
Rockwall .......
Runnels .....
Rusk ...........
Sabine.........
San Augustine....
San Jacinto ...
San Patricio .....
San Saba ........
Schleicher .......
Scurry ..........
Shackelford ....
Shelby ..........
Sherman ......
Smith ..........
Somervell
Starr130
1,800
2,405
676
567
1,874
64
25
737
933
863
1,172
113
116
1,005
1,295
99
354
188
19
108
1,61034
854
199
22
1,370
378
642
2,034
544
619
619
510
491
54
307
183
1,593
26
2,998
201
349TEXAS PUBLIC DOMAIN. 345
Aid to Dep.
Children
W 1 -325
498
198
81
1,100
6
191
72
209
70
3
46
202
269
75
40
4
3
20
393
22
82
355
120
96
474
73
186
209
219
66
13
19
261
710
11
594County-
Total ........ 1227,251119,540154,90916,54912,819
Public Domain of Texas
Texas retained its public domain when it of school land the state has reserved all or a
became a member of the United States by part of the mineral rights. These mineral
annexation. The thirteen original states and rights held under the supervision of the
three states admitted to the Union shortly Land Office, were yielding monthly income
after It was formed retained their public of $600,000 in 1951 in bonuses, rentals and
lands, but these areas were small as corn- royalties.
pared with approximately millions of acres Most of this revenue was going-to the Uni-
that were owned by the state at the time of versity of Texas permanent fund, which has
its admission to the United States. been the chief beneficiary of oil discoveries
The total area of Texas at time of its on state-owned land. A minor portion was
admission was approximately 237,906,000 acres, going to the permanent fund of the public
including the eastern half of present New school system.
Mexico and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colo- In addition there remained an estimated
rado and Wyoming. After relinquishing claim acreage of about 1,750,000 in vacancies. These
to these .areas in return for 10 million dollars vacancies came from the rule-of-thumb sur-
under the Compromise of 1850, Texas had veying methods of early engineers which
left a total area of 172,687,000 acres, including often resulted in excess acreage. An act of
submerged lands to the three-league limit, the Forty-sixth Legislature, 1939, permitted
To administer its public domain affairs, holders of excess acreage in surveys, where
the General Land -Office was established by obtained without any evidence of intent to
the Republic of Texas in 1836, shortly after defraud, to buy the excess acreage at a price
it won its independence from Mexico. When fixed by the School Land Board. To Sept. 1,
Texas became a member of the Union, the 1950, the state had received $1,052,667 for
Land Office was retained, and Texas is today 168,243 acres.
the only state with such an office. Tidelands
The public domain has largely been sold by In June, 1950, the Supreme Court of the
the state to encourage colonization, endow United States refused a petition for rehear-
public schools and higher education, facilitate ing of the tidelands case. Thus affected
railroad building, build the present State were 3,250,000 acres off the Texas Coast, be-
Capitol, and reward veterans for military tween the shore and the three-league limit.
service. Despite presentation of Texas' unique claim
Disposal of this land and status of present to its public domain the court held this area
state-ownership is summarized below from to be the property of the Federal Govern-
data furnished by the Generdi Land Office. ment under- a theory of "paramount right."
Nearly all of the state-owned land has= Leases in the Gulf of Mexico had already
been sold, but there remained about 1,300,- been sold by the School Land Board--com-
000 acres of unsold school lands of Jan. 1, posed of the Land Commissioner as chairman,
1951, largely in small blocks, lying princi- the Governor and the Attorney General. A
pally in the Trans-Pecos. On this date 5,787,- total of 435,146 acres had .-een leased for
708 acres of school land were held in 13,000 total bonus payments of $7,414,129.37. Leases
purchase contracts, and the principal due the and royalty payments had brought the total
state was about $10.000.000. On 7,160,000 acres revenues from the Gulf area to $9,395,087.67.a2 U U)
Stephens .........
Sterling ........
Stonewall .
Sutton ... .. ..
Swisher .....
Tarrant
Taylor .... .
Terrell ...
Terry .........
Throckmorton . ..
Titus . . .. .
Tom Green ..
Travis ..... ...
Trinity
Tyler .... .. .
Upshur .. .....
Upton .... ....
Uvalde .... ....
Val Verde ......
Van Zandt .
Victoria .....
Walker ...
Waller ........
Ward ..........
Washington ....
Webb ......
Wharton . ..:
Wheeler
Wichita
Wilbarger
W illacy ....... ..
Williamson ...
Wilson
Winkler ........
W ise .... .... .
Wood...........
Yoakum .........
Young.........
Zapa a..........
Zavalao y
a4
469
28
125
37
124
9,558
1,641
18
210
113
1,001
1,369
3,702
837
697
1,406
51
364
222
1,607
600
1,025
622
111
1,344
394
1,121
391
2,168
628
254
1,425
683
71
1,035
1,109
29
664
47
140Aid to Dep.
Children
17 43
2 7
1 2
1 4
2 6
808 2,082
75 211
5 14
9 33
3 6
84 229
123 364
440 1,308
72 188
72 175
118 274
1 7
34 97
55 155
91 267
56 173
113 299
57 181
7 15
93 264
199 562
135 378
13 33
104 319
25 81
86 237
71 217
126 376
5 12
27 62
63 163
... ...
18 47
14 31
53 164
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