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"A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...
The Act was patterned after the Securities Act of 1933 and required land developers to register subdivisions of (currently 100 or more) non-exempt lots or condominium units. Originally, the filings were to be with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The General Land Office's main role is to manage Texas's publicly owned lands, by negotiating and enforcing leases for the use of the land, and sometimes by making sales of public lands. Royalties and proceeds from land sales are added to the state's Permanent School Fund, which helps to fund public education within the state. [2]
Thus, if Oscar purports to sell a piece of land to Alice for $100,000, and the next day purports to sell exactly the same piece of land to Bob for another $100,000, then whichever of the two buyers is the first to reach the recording office and have the sale recorded will be deemed the owner of the property.
The existence of section lines made property descriptions far more straightforward than the old metes and bounds system. The establishment of standard east-west and north-south lines ("township" and "range lines") meant that deeds could be written without regard to temporary terrain features such as trees, piles of rocks, fences, and the like, and be worded in the style such as "Lying and ...
It runs east from an intersection with US 96. [3] State maintenance ends just past its intersection with FM 2343; an unimproved roadway continues under U.S. Forest Service jurisdiction. [4] FM 201 was designated on May 25, 1995, from US 96, 2.6 miles (4.2 km) southeast of Spur 414, east 4.3 miles (6.9 km). On March 30, 2000, the road was ...
Clear Springs was named for the natural springs water source for the settlement, which is now covered by Lake Dunlap. The location on which Clear Springs sits had been surveyed by James Bowie. In 1873, a cotton gin and general store were built for the processing, storage, and sale of cotton and goods. Wagon loads of cotton were brought from the ...
U.S. Route 90 forms the northern edge of the CDP. According to the United States Census Bureau, the New Territory CDP has a total area of 4.8 square miles (12.4 km 2), of which 4.6 square miles (12.0 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km 2), or 2.96%, is water. [4]