Inventory of County Records: Guadalupe County Courthouse Page: 4
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most important powers of the court are the setting of the tax
rate for the county and the approval of the county budget.2
Other duties include providing for the disposition of all school
lands granted to the county; providing for necessary public
buildings and their repair; conducting elections; establishing
and maintaining roads, bridges, and ferries; auditing and settling
accounts against the county; providing for the support of
paupers and mentally incompetent persons unable to support
themselves;3 and serving as a board of equalization of state
and county tax assessments.4 The Commissioners Court possesses
powers usually thought of as separate in American government
since it has judicial, executive, and limited legislative power.5
COUNTY CLERK
The present Constitution provides that the County Clerk
shall be clerk of the County and Commissioners
Courts and recorder of the county, whose duties,
perquisites and fees of office shall be prescribed
by the Legislature, and a vacancy in
whose office shall be filled by the Commissioners
Court, until the next general election; provided,
that in counties having a population of less than
8,000 persons there may be an election of a
single Clerk, who shall perform the duties of
District and County Clerks.
These three functions result in this office having the responsibility
for recording and maintaining the largest volume of
records in the operation of county government.
Clerk as Recorder
During the Republic period the statutory duties of the
County Clerk had, to a large extent, already been defined.
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Carlson, Paul H. Inventory of County Records: Guadalupe County Courthouse, book, 1979; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25213/m1/21/: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.