A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879. Page: 845 of 859
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CONSTITUTION.
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thereon, and the holder of such junior title, or color of title, shall have all
the rights of the Government which have heretofore existed, or now exist,
arising from the non-performance of all such conditions.
SEC. 3. Non-payment of taxes on any claim of title to land, dated prior
to the 13th day of November, 1835, not recorded or archived, as provided
in Section 2, by the person or persons so claiming, or those under whom he
or they so claim, from that date up to the date of the adoption of this Constitution,
shall be held to be a presumption that the right thereto has reverted
to the State, and that said claim is a stale demand, which presumption
shall only be rebutted by payment of all taxes on said lands, State,
county, and city or town, to be assessed on the fair value of such lands by
the Comptroller, and paid to him, without commutation or deduction for
any part of the above period.
SEC. 4. No claim of title or right to land, which issued prior to the 13th
day of November, 1835, which has not been duly recorded in the county
where the land was situated at the time of such record, or which has not
been duly archived in the General Land Office, shall ever hereafter be deposited
in the General Land Office, or recorded in this State, or delineated
on the maps, or used as evidence in any of the courts of this State, and the
same are stale claims; but this shall not affect such rights or presumptions
as arise from actual possession. By the words " duly recorded," as used
in Sections 2 and 4 of this Article, it is meant that such claim of title or
right to land shall have been recorded in the proper office, and that mere
errors in the certificate of registration or informality, not affecting the
fairness and good faith of the holder thereof, with which the record was
made, shall not be held to vitiate such record.
SEC. 5. All claims, locations, surveys, grants, and titles, of any kind,
which are declared null and void by the Constitution of the Republic or
State of Texas, are, and the same shall remain forever, null and void.
SEC. 6. The Legislature shall pass stringent laws for the detection and
conviction of all forgers of land titles, s1nd may make such appropriations
of money for that purpose as may be necessary.
SEc. 7. Sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this Article shall not be so construed
as to set aside or repeal any law or laws of the Republic or State of Texas,
releasing the claimants of headrights of colonists of a league of land, or
less, from comoliance with the conditions on which their graits were
made.
ARTICLE XIV.
PUBLIC LANDS AND LAND OFFICE.
SECTION 1. There shall be one General Land Office in the State, which
shall be at the seat of government, where all land titles which have emanated
or may hereafter emanate from the State shall be registered, except
those titles the registration of which may be prohibited by this Constitution.
It shall be the duty of the Legislature at the earliest practicable
time to make the Land Office self-sustaining, and from time to time the
Legislature may establish such subordinate offices as may be deemed
necessary.
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/845/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .