The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-08-30
AUSTIN.


Items From tho Deparrmonts'..The Land
Board, Eto.
AUSTIN, Aug. 25 -TSpecial.l-The col
lector OF Lam pasas county settled to-day.
The assessment rolls OF Cameron and..Starr,
showing no increase IN value, were received
TODAY. The rolls of Smith aud Bosque
were received, showing Ii sht increase.
The attorney-generdl rules that judges
cannot act as agents and receive commits.
sions for selling or leasing county school
lands, nor can commissioners court APP
point one of their number so to act. He
also decided in answer to Comptroller
Swain, that witnesses cannot be paid out of
appropriations for paying sheritfs, clerks
and prosecuting attorneys. The legislature
failed to make an appropriation to pay wit
nesses.
The land board to-day accepted Dennis
Corwin's proposition to examine and re-
report on university lands. He thinks it
will require six men thirty days to do the
work. The school and asylum lands
in Jones county were
put on the market. The state
agent of Preside county was instructed to
forward to the board the names OF all par
ties cutting timber and hay on state lands,
and 10 no ify the commanding officer at
Fort Davis that such persons are selling
solen wood and hay.
The university faculty are expected here
on September 1st, and the proctor thinks
it will be opened with about 200 students.
DR.. Denton announces that the additions
to the insane asylum are completed ana
that he can accommodate 200 patients III
addition to the number now mere.
He will be ready to receive patients on and
after the 9Th of September. and desires
county Judges who wish to send from their
counties to mail Immediately complete
record of each patient. In doing SO they
must be governed by article 95 of the Re-
vised Statutes. A circular giving full in
formation will be mailed to county judges
Monday.
The comptroller to-day calls the attention
of county commissioners courts, county
surveyors and tax collectors to IAN act
to require persons enclosing public
free school lands to pay an annual rent
therefor" approved April II, 1879, which
provides that the surveyor of each county
shall make report to the county commits
sioners on the first Monday in June, of each
wear, the number of sections of such
lands inclosed during the past year
and that said courts shall make
a list of the names of persons
controlling such lands and the aggregate
amount due from each person at the rate OF
1926 for each section so enclosed or con-
trolled; certified copies OF which are TO De
sent to the comptroller and delivered
to the tax collector for collection OF
the amount shown to be due;
State school landssituated in unorganized
counties are under the jurisdiction of the
authorities of the county to which such
unorganized counties are attached for judi
cial purposes, as far as relates to the rem
tai of such lands under the law referred to
Grave charges have been made and placed
| in the bands OF Post-office Inspector Foster
against Jim Newcome, postmaster at San
Antonio, and they will be thoroughly IN
vestigated and if reports are true San Al
| tonic will have new postmaster.
Nothing is known here of the rumored
removal of Judge Foster, and 1t is dis
credited.