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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]
Pages in category "Oil refineries in Texas" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Baytown Refinery; C.
The castle was featured on Zillow Gone Wild, a Facebook page and X, formerly known as Twitter, account, that showcases unique houses for sale all over the world, and people fell under its spell.
Pages in category "Oil fields in Texas" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Barnett Shale; C.
Hunting Quarters is the original name for the area of eastern North Carolina in Carteret County currently known as the towns of Sea Level and Atlantic.The region, originally settled by an English family in the early 18th century, was named Hunting Quarters by the local Coree Indians, [1] living on the plentiful game, fish and oysters.
"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 ...
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The East Texas Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in east Texas. Covering 140,000 acres (57,000 ha) and parts of five counties, and having 30,340 historic and active oil wells, it is the second-largest oil field in the United States outside Alaska, and first in total volume of oil recovered since its discovery in 1930. [ 1 ]