The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-01
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
Our Reporters Ramble Through
the Departments Yesterday,
And What They Pound of In
terest to the General Public.
From Thursdays Daily. ]

From Thursdays Daily.l
Dull summer times appear to effect
the state departments as we'll as
other branches of business. At least
1T appears that way to the ener-
getic reporter who daily climbs the
stairs to the sanctums of the different
heads of departments, to be met with the
reply, mo news to-day"
COMPTROLLER.
The comptroller yesterday paid into
the treasury the sum of $5S, 200, which
was the extent of news in that depart
ment
The treasurer yesterday received
$4,000 on land sales, which was
all that that courteous official
could or would tell the knight of
the pencil.
LAND OFFICE.
Govtrnor Medaro, of Coahuilla, Mexico,
replied to letter of Governor Roberts
with reference to original deed to land
concessions taken from the records of
COahuilla and introduced in evidence in
the United States court at San Antonio
during the trial of the Gonzales claims.
Governor MedarO says that previous to
his going into office records were taken
from the archives, but that he has
stopped that. He says also that every
thing possible is being done by the Mex
ican government to secure peace on the
border
Commissioner Walsh has addressed the
following communication to ]. E. Pool,
county attorney of Throckmorton
county
learn from your letter that certain
parties filed on seventy sections of the
state school land in your county, on the
2nd day of February, 1882. and that
some time in April they deposited new
applications with the surveyor, to take
effect May 2nd, when their first file ex-
pired, and you ask instructions for your
county surveyor. If the parties had the
right to deposit files to take effect on Nav
2nd, they also had the right TO deposit at
the same time files August End, Novem-
Der 2nd and February 2nd 1888, and so
on. But they had no such right, and the
so-called files deposited with the survey
or in April are worthless and void, and
if no other files have been made upon
them the lands are now open for sale.
The files made February Cd, held the
land for ninety days, and until the expi-
ration of that time no other file could be
made by the original parties or any one
else. The files deposited in April were
Illegal when made and do not become
legal by the lapse of the first files The
surveyor could not receive them officially,
and he could not act as their agent TO
present them for record when the others
expired. Respectfully,
W. G. WALSH, Comm'r.
From Fnday's Daily
Col. Spaight, commissioner of insur-
ance, statistics and history, has been on
visit to Galveston.
The adjutant general will not reduce
the frontier force, unless compelled to
do so to avoid deficiency.
The charter of the st. Joseph academy,
of Sherman, was filed yesterday in
the secretary of states office.
The attorney generals Office will be
removed TO tie Hancock building to day.
The treasurer received $4,000, all in
silver dollars, from BeXar county, yes
terday, to the credit of the general reve-
nue..
The six hundred thousand dollar bonds
recently purchased by the treasurer, and
which are known as the ''Sl40 pur-
chase" arrived yesterday in package,
and will be burned Monday. In addi-
tion to these, what are known as the
baby bonds and the International un-
signed bonds will be burned at the same
time.
A Mr.. Finch, of Milan county, had a
claim approved yesterday for twenty
dollars, for services as a school director,
whi Ii he maintains cost him $l53 in ex-
penses TO have passed upon.
The comptroller has not yet returned.