Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1920 — Lands in Texas. [ARTICLE]

Lands in Texas.

Th* federal government never owned any of the public lands in Texas. It was a republic for some years before it entered the union of states. When it came into the Union it was stipulated by joint resolution of congress, passed March 1, 1845, that Texas was to “retfiin all vacant and unappropriated lands within its limits to be applied to the payment of the debts and liabilities of the aald republic of Texas,” .«<*!■ Th* stat* estabUahed its awn land odke, made grants to railroads, etc., and made Ito m **tttouMnt lawa. ;' '