Chapter IV: Appendix: Table A

DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF TEXAS UNDER THE REPUBLIC AND THE
STATE

Table B.

MINERAL ESTATE

LEASED MINERAL ESTATE

PRODUCING ACREAGE

ANNUAL ROYALTY
Period Ending August 31, 1956

Table A.
DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF TEXAS UNDER THE REPUBLIC AND THE
STATE

Acres

Grants to promote citizenship and to induce
immigration.
By Spain and Mexico 26,280,000
Headrights and bounties 36,876,492
Colonies (Peter’s, et al) 4,494,806
Homesteads (Pre-emptions) 4,847,136
72,498,434
Donations to veterans.
San Jacinto veterans (Acts of 1879 and 1881) 1,169,382
Confederate veterans (Acts of 1881) 1,979,852
3,149,234
Sold to pay public debts by Republic 1,329,200
50 cents Sales Scrip Act of 1879 and $2 Sales 1,660,936
Scrip Act of 1887
2,990,136
Internal improvements.
Irrigation, drainage, canals, industrial, 4,088,640
highways, etc.
Grants to railroads 32,153,878
36,242,518
State Capitol Building 3,025,000
3,025,000
Education.
University of Texas 2,329,168
Public Schools 42,561,400
County Schools 4,229,166
Eleemosynary Institutions 410,600
49,530,334
Total surveyed land 167,435,656
Less conflicts (estimated at ½ of 1%) 837,256
Net acreage in original surveys 166,598,400
Excesses (estimated at approximately 1.1%) 1,747,600
River beds and vacancies (estimated) 1,091,000
Submerged coastal area to 3-league limit 4,145,674
Total 173,682,674

Table B.

MINERAL ESTATE
Acres

A. Permanent School Fund
1. River Beds 1,000,000.00
2. Unsold surveyed P.F.S.L. 878,415.00
3. Sold P.F.S.L. with all minerals reserved 7,281,949.00
4. Free Royalty Lands 729,339.00
5. Bays and Inlets 1,536,900.00
6. Area from Coast to 3-League Limit 2,608,774.00
Total 14,035,377.00
B. Permanent University Fund—All Minerals
1. Sold 3,377
2. Unsold 2,127,700 2,131,077.00
C. A&M Fund 35,008.00
D. East Texas State Teachers’ College Fund 337.00
E. Prison Fund 73,099.00
F. Game & Fish Fund 69,076.00
G. State Parks Board 30,580.00
H. State Hospital and Special Schools 12,903.00
Total acres in Mineral Estate 16,387,457.00

LEASED MINERAL ESTATE

A. School Lands 4,275,703.00
B. University Lands 667,496.00
C. A&M Lands 2,017.00
D. East Texas State Teachers’ College Lands 337.00
E. Prison Lands 11,818.00
F. Game & Fish Lands 2,838.00
G. State Park Lands 1,531.00
H. State Hospital and Special Schools Lands 4,634.00
Total Leased Acreage 4,966,374.00

PRODUCING ACREAGE

A. School Lands 428,177.00
B. University Lands 252,230.00
C. A&M Lands 1,579.00
D. Prison Lands 5,889.00
E. State Park Lands 112.00
F. State Hospital and Special Schools Lands 356.00
Total Leased Acreage 688,343.00

ANNUAL ROYALTY
Period Ending August 31, 1956
Oil Gas Total

A. School Lands $11,987,467.00 $2,115,954.00 $14,103,421.00
(Other Royalty) 288,351.00
B. University Lands 13,132,713.00 470,650.00 13,603,363.00
C. A&M Lands 8,664.00 - 0 - 8,664.00
D. Prison Lands 39,957.00 993.00 40,950.00
E. State Park Lands 56.00 - 0 - 56.00
F. State Hospital and 9,790.00 - 0 - 9,790.00
Special Schools Lands
Total Annual Royalty $25,178,647.00 $2,587,597.00 $28,054,595.00

AUTOMOBILES—REGULATING RUNNING OF SAME.
H. B. No. 93.] Chapter XCVI.

An Act to regulate the running of automobiles and motor vehicles, and
the requiring of the owner of such machine to register his name
and the number of his machine with the county clerk of the county
in which he resides, for the violation of which a penalty is
provided.