Inventory of county records, Ector County courthouse Page: 2
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their duties. The main function of county government in 1891, therefore,
had already become what it in fact remains today: the administration
of state laws and the implementation of state policy at the
local level. The following county officials have the responsibility
of carrying out these functions.
COUNTY CLERK
The Constitution provides that the county clerk, elected for a
four-year term, be ex-officio clerk of the Commissioners' Court and
of the County Court as well as recorder of the county, carrying out
such duties as prescribed by statute [Constitution, Art. V, Sec. 20].
It also states that in counties with a population of less than 8,000
persons, the same person may fill the office of both county clerk
and district clerk; and when the voters of Ector County first elected
county officials, one person filled both offices. The two offices
separated after the county's population exceeded 8,000 in the 1930's.
County Clerk as Recorder
When Ector County was organized in 1891, the statutory duties
of the county clerk had, to a large extent, already been defined.
During the Republic period the clerk was to record all deeds, conveyances,
mortgages, and other liens on land [H. P. N. Gammel, Laws
of Texas, I, 1215], to record all estrays [Gammel, I, 1272], to issue
and record all marriage licenses [Gammel, I, 1294], to issue
various types of business licenses [Gammel, I, 1454; II, 189-196,
273], and to post a list of taxpayers [Gammel, I, 1512]. State laws
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Trigg, Carolyn. Inventory of county records, Ector County courthouse, book, 1973; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25244/m1/9/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.