Download or read book The Public Land System of Texas 1823 1910 written by Reuben McKitrick and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Public Land System Of Texas 1823 1910 written by Reuben McKitrick and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1918, this book provides a comprehensive survey of the public land system in Texas from its origins in the early 19th century to the early 20th century. McKitrick details the often-contentious history of land usage in Texas, including the role of the state and federal governments in managing the state's natural resources. This book is essential reading for anybody interested in the history of land use in Texas or the development of the American West. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Public Land System of Texas 1823 1910 written by Reuben McKitrick and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...Geography Of Texas. Texas at that time, regarded it "as the best sale ever made of land of a worthless quality and a disputable title."80 The payment of the $10,000,000 by the United States enabled Texas to clear away all of the old debt of the Republic and left it a handsome surplus in the treasury. Very little effort was made thereafter to sell any of the public land until the close of the Civil War. Acts were passed, however, in 1858 and 1860 which authorized the land commissioner to sell land scrip at the rate of one dollar an acre, which might be located on any part of the vacant and unappropriated public domain.31 It appears that only twenty-three sales, aggregating 10,506 acres, were made in accordance with these laws, and they were only, therefore, of minor importance. But in 1876, the state government was once more pressed with a debt amounting to nearly $5,000,000,82 and again it looked to its public lands for relief from the burden. Consequently a law was passed in 1879 which set apart all of the vacant land in forty-four counties to be sold at the rate of fifty cents an acre and directed that one-half of the proceeds from such sales should be credited to the school fund and the other half applied to the "payment and extinguishment of the bonded debt of the state as fast as the same became due and payable."33 So urgent was the necessity for selling this land that "any person, firm or corporation" desiring to purchase it was authorized to do so upon having it surveyed by a public surveyor. The land could not be sold, however, in tracts of more than 640 acres. As a source of revenue, this method of disposition was not a very important one, especially when the results that were obtained under it are...
Download or read book The Public Land System of Texas 1823 1910 written by Reuben McKitrick and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Land Grants 1750 1900 written by John Martin Davis, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas land grants were one of the largest public land distributions in American history. Induced by titles and estates, Spanish adventurers ventured into the frontier, followed by traders and artisans. West Texas was described as “Great Space of Land Unknown” and Spanish sovereigns wanted to fill that void. Gaining independence from Spain, Mexico launched a land grant program with contractors who recruited emigrants. After the Texas Revolution in 1835, a system of Castilian edicts and English common law came into use. Lacking hard currency, land became the coin of the realm and the Republic gave generous grants to loyal first families and veterans. Through multiple homestead programs, more than 200 million acres had been deeded by the end of the 19th century. The author has relied on close examination of special acts, charters and litigation, including many previously overlooked documents.
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Download or read book Bibliography on Land Utilization 1918 36 written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography has been compiled as a companion volume to the Bibliography on Land Settlement issued in 1934 by the United States Department of Agriculture as Miscellaneous Publication 172. It contains selected references to the literature on the economic aspects of land utilization and land policy in the United States and in foreign countries, published for the most part during the period 1918-36.
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Download or read book The Road to Spindletop written by John Stricklin Spratt and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an economic history of Texas at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1875, Texas was an agrarian state with limited industry. A generation later, agriculture was heavily commercialized, thousands of miles of railroads carried people and goods around the state, and urban populations increased rapidly. Even before the Spindletop gusher that irrevocably changed the state’s future, Texas had already moved far from its days as a Mexican and American frontier.
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