The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-08
Respectfully,
W. NJ. Brown, Comptroller.

made, the actual amount OF the unlYer-
sity fund must remain rs doubtful.
Respectfully,
W. NJ. Brown. Comptroller.
The Grapevine Cemetary Association,
| of Grapevine, Tarrant county, filed a
charter in the office of secretary of state
yesterday. The following are the direc-
| tors {: u. ID. Hudgins. j. S. Morehead, b. .
| Ii. Starr, A. j. N. Dunn aud j. S. Foster.
The association is formed for the purpose
of holding and keeping in repair a ceme-
tary for the purpose of interment of the
| dead.
By an act of the last legislature the
governor, comptroller, treasurer, attor-
| ney-general and commissioner of the gen.
eral land office, were constituted a board
| to contract with some suitable person or
persons to survey and to return to the gen.
| eral land Office the field notes and plats of
three hundred leagues of land from the
| unappropriated public domain within the
state or any of the reserves made by the
act of the legislature of July 4, 1879, which
| shall constitute reservation out of which
each of the unorganiZed counties of this
| entitled to four leagues of land for free
| school purposes. The board met yes
| terday to open and consider bids for sur
yeying the above land. The following
are the bids per league: S. w. S. Dun
| can, of Dallas, $25; S. A. Goodman, of
Mitchell, of Gonzales, $40; T. B. Reeves,
of Calvert, $40: Arthur Striegler, of
Fredericksburg $1s.75; L. G.. Har-
mon, of Bandera, $45; l.. NJ.
Moore & Co., of Hampstead, So;
J. S. Daugherty, of Dallas, $3.50 Veal
u McNeilly, of Breckenridge, S25. The
contract was awarded to Moore & Co., of
Hampstead, and they will be required to
give bond IN not less than double the
amount .of the contract price. The law
regarding the survey OF the above lands
says:
1.-THE field notes and maps of the sur
Veys shall be recorded in a well-bound
book or books by the contracting sur
veyor, the original of which shall be re-
turned under oath to the general land
office, and shall constitute and archive
therein; and the said contractor or con-
tractors shall furnish each district sur
veyor in whose district lands are sur
veyed, copy of the field notes and maps
of surveys made in his district, also re-
corded in a well-bound book, which shall
constitute a record of his office.
In all cases two corners shall be marked
and established on the ground for each
survey, The lines between which, If in
timber, shall be distinctly marked. Said
corners shall be made with at least two
bearings, if in timber, and if in the
prairie, by earth-mOunds six feet in diam
eter and three feet high.
Each league of land shall be numbered
in the order it is surveyed by the con-
tractor or contractors, beginning at num-
Der one and extending to number one
hundred, and as each of the unorganized
counties in the state shall be organized,
such county shall be entitled to the first
four leagues out of the reservation au-
thorIzed by this act, which shall not have
been patented to other counties tor ;ree
school purposes, npOn the payment to the |
treasurer of the state the actual costs of |
the surveying fees and illegal interest there |
on from time ofpayment by the state; and |
upon the payment of the cost of survey
ing and patent fees, the commissioner of |
the general land office is hereby required |
to issue patents to said county for four |
leagues of land as above provided; pro- |
Uided, any county that fails to pay survey |
ing and patent fees under this act, within |
three years after its organization, shall |
forfeit all claims to the lands herein do
mated.
The legislature appI opriated $500 10 |
pay the expense of surveying.
A commissioner, at a salary of $3.50 per |
month, is to be appointed by the COVER |
nor to superintend the work.
The board of statistics met yesterday |
and prepared series of questions which |
will be sent to county officials and others,
requesting information looking to the |
compilation of a report on the resources |
of the state, the legislature having APP |
prOpriated $500 for this purpose.
During the past three or tour days the |
receipts at the state treasury have |
amounted to S250,0O0.
During the month of August the re-
ceipts of the general land Office, from all |
sources, amounted to over $4,000.
Hon. .. n. Hollinsworth has received |
information that there were no applicants |
before the board of examiners, at San
RnfA for hn II
school. scholarship.
Company, capital $4,000, filed charter in
the office of secretary of state yesterday. |
NThe encouragement is preparing a |
draft of a contract and bond for building |
the new state house. After it. is |
drawn up it will be submitted to the board |
of capitol commissioners for approval, |
after which it will be printed and placed |
in the hands of the building commission |
ers for the benefit of bidders. Bids will |
be opened on the 18th day of October, and |
according to the contract, as drawn up,
contractors must commence work on the |
first day of December next, and complete |
the building by the first of January 1887. |
All bids will have to be accompanied by q |
guarantee bond of $4,000, that bidders |
are able to give bond of S250, 900 for the |
faithful performance of contract.
Hon. o. N. Hollingsworth was having
his office renovated yesterday and new /
carpet is to be put down, and the office /
made more comfortable and pleasant.
Yesterday the Burleson County Coop
erative association, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, filed charter in the office of the /
secretary of state.
The object of the association is &c Gre
ate and manage a mercantile establish
ment upon a cooperative plan of buying
and selling such real estate and other [
property as may be necessary to promote /
the object of its creation. The capital
stock is placed at one thousand dollars,
divided into sharesof five dollars each.
The following are the directors: Nm.
Thornton, Il. S. Simpson and j. S.
Rowland.
The board of examiners will meet again
in san Antonio, on the 18th instant, to
examine applicants for the Peabody Nor
NAL school at Nashville, Tennes-
see. AT the meeting some time ago no
applicant put in an appearance.