Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas: For the Fiscal Year Ending August 31, 1899 Exhibit B shows the issuance of but one certificate for 1280 acres, this be ing a special act certificate, and according to the terms of the law was made locatable upon any public domain of the State without regard to former laws reserving the same. By virtue of this certificate locations have been made upon islands heretofore reserved since the days of the Republic. Exhibit 0 shows 7408 new returns, mainly pre-emptions and school lands. Attention is specially called to Exhibit E, which shows the vast amount of domain devoted by the State to companies of public improvement. This ex bibit shows the issuance to railroad companies of certificates for 640 acres each, besides 3601} sections surveyed for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company under the Act of January 30, 1854, which surveys were made without certificates, as authorized by said law. The total of this is 120 acres, or an area larger than the States of New York and New Jersey combined. In addition to this, Exhibit F shows that 336 certificates of 320 acres each and 7845 certificates of 640 acres each, calling for acres, were given by the State to other internal improvement companies, such as irrigation ditches, improvement of streams for navigation, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.