Inventory of the county archives of Texas : Gregg County, no. 92 Page: 45
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45 Housing,
Care, and Accessibility (First entry, p. 57)
of Records
Shelving and file boxes in both rooms are of steel construction. The
clerk's current records are in his office, and most of his retired records
in his vault; but 13 volumes are in the jury dormitory closet on the second
floor, and 17 in the tax assessor-collector's office. A few retired
records of other officers and agencies are also in the clerk's vault.
The district clerk of the county is clerk of each of the three district
courts. His department on the third floor consists of a large main
office, a private office, and a vault. Records are located in each of
these rooms, in steel cabinets in the main office and in the vault, on
steel shelf units in the private office. In a small closet in the private
office, records are stacked on wooden shelves. Thirty-three retired volumes
and a few disposed of papers of the district courts are in the small
closet adjacent to the district judge's office on the west side of the second
floor; and scattering records are in the county clerk's vault, the
sheriff's storeroom in the basement, the grand jury room on the second
floor, and the criminal district attorney's office on the first floor.
Another official having numerous records is the tax assessor-collector.
His department consists of two adjoining offices on the first floor, the
larger used for the collecting procedure, the smaller for the assessing.
Records are kept on steel shelving and in steel file boxes. Scattering
tax records found elsewhere in the building include: 419 volumes, 250
bundles, and 10 boxes in the jury dormitory closet; 1 volume in the county
clerk's vault; 3 boxes in the sheriff's storeroom; and 4 volumes in the
district judge's closet.
Other officials serving the county organization keep comparatively
few or no permanent public records. In the county judge's office on the
first floor were found two file boxes of requisitions, and two volumes of
probate records. The justice of the peace and the constable of precinct 1
have adjoining offices in the basement. Current records of the justice of
precinct 1 are in his office and in the constable's office; retired records
of the justices of precincts 1, 3, and 7 are located in the county clerk's
vault, the sheriff's storeroom, the constable's office, and in a small
closet in the basement, beneath the west stairway to the first floor. No
records of the constable were found. The criminal district attorney has
large offices on the first floor, but the only public record of this official
located during the inventory was one volume in the auditor's office.
The sheriff keeps his current records in his offices on the first floor
and most of his retired records in his basement storeroom, but two volumes
of sheriff's records were found in'the district clerk's private office, one
volume in the county clerk's vault, and one file box in the building custodian's
office in the basement. The county treasurer's current records are
in his office on the first floor; 12 retired volumes are in the county
clerk's vault, 3 in the district judge's closet. All of the county auditor's
records are in his office on the first floor except three file boxes,
which are in the building custodian's office. The county school superintendent
keeps all of his own records and the records of the county board
of school trustees in his offices on the second floor. The county surveyor's
office in the basement houses all of his records. In the building
custodian's office was found one bundle of admission cards to the county
hospital.
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Historical Records Survey. Texas. Inventory of the county archives of Texas : Gregg County, no. 92, book, August 1940; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25249/m1/54/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.