A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . eached theTexas capital on August 10, having travelled what was calledthe Upper San Antonio Road. Governor Martinez received himkindly, and authorized him to explore the Colorado valley,sound the river and its harbor, and select such location for the Stephen suc-ceeds him Austin inTexas Authoritygiven him I Xl A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Period Rule 1821 TO1836 colony as he should choose. He also requested Austin tofurnish a plan for the distribution of the lands, and directed himto take charge of the loca
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . eached theTexas capital on August 10, having travelled what was calledthe Upper San Antonio Road. Governor Martinez received himkindly, and authorized him to explore the Colorado valley,sound the river and its harbor, and select such location for the Stephen suc-ceeds him Austin inTexas Authoritygiven him I Xl A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Period Rule 1821 TO1836 colony as he should choose. He also requested Austin tofurnish a plan for the distribution of the lands, and directed himto take charge of the local government of the colony until other-wise organized. Austins plan for giving lands to the colonists,which was approved by the governor, was to give six hundredand forty acres to each head of a family and single man overage ; three hundred and twenty acres additional for the wife ;one hundred and sixty acres for each child ; and eighty acresfor each slave. He at once explored the Guadalupe, Lavaca,Colorado, and Brazos Rivers, and was satisfied that their fertile. Mexican Women of the Lower Class. valleys—especially of the two last named—would furnish pros-perous homes for his three hundred families. He then returnedto Louisiana and circulated throughout the Mississippi Valleyprinted statements of his colonial enterprise and a descriptionof Texas and its advantages. In these circulars he distinctlystated the terms of acquiring lands in his colony. Each settlerwas required to pay twelve and a half cents per acre for his por-tion of land, and Austin was to defray all expenses of surveying,fees for titles, and charges of every kind. It was consideredthat the price charged for the land would furnish a fund forconducting the local government of the colony, defence againstIndians, aid to poor immigrants, and to reimburse the outlays MEXICAN RULE. ^33 Period Rule 1821 TO 1836 Empresarioscompensation and losses he and his father had sustained in founding the enter-prise,
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