Inventory of county records, Callahan County courthouse, Baird, Texas Page: 4
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COUNTY CLERK
The 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. 1
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. The Clerk was
to record all deeds, conveyances, mortgages, and other liens on
land; to record all estrays; to issue and record all marriage
licenses; to issue various types of business licenses; and to
post a list of taxpayers.2 State laws after 1846 further required
the Clerk to record deeds of trust, bonds, covenants, defeasances,
and other instruments relating to property, including marriage
contracts, powers of attorney, abstracts of judgment, and land
titles. He is also to provide an alphabetical list of all names
occurring in his records and to record all livestock marks and
brands in the county.3
Since 1903 the Clerk has been required to record all births
and deaths in the county, and since 1919, he has been required to
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Texas County Records Inventory Project. Inventory of county records, Callahan County courthouse, Baird, Texas, book, 1977; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25228/m1/17/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.