. History of Texas : from 1685 to 1892, volume 2 . ginning in March, 1882, the work was completed duringthat year. The work was done with great care, and thecorners were marked with such permanent mounds of earth orstone, as to avoid all ground for future conflict. A largenumber of counties since that time, embracing all organizedbetween 1882 and 1892, have received their respective fourleagues, or 17,712 acres of land, the proceeds of the sales ofwhich shall constitute an auxiliary permanent county schoolfund, in addition to the State funds; the interest only can beused for the current suppor
. History of Texas : from 1685 to 1892, volume 2 . ginning in March, 1882, the work was completed duringthat year. The work was done with great care, and thecorners were marked with such permanent mounds of earth orstone, as to avoid all ground for future conflict. A largenumber of counties since that time, embracing all organizedbetween 1882 and 1892, have received their respective fourleagues, or 17,712 acres of land, the proceeds of the sales ofwhich shall constitute an auxiliary permanent county schoolfund, in addition to the State funds; the interest only can beused for the current support of the schools. This was a wisestep on the part of the State, and is destined to exert a mostbeneficial influence in all future time, on that large section ofcounties embraced in the pan-handle and west Texas, besidesa few isolated counties created elsewhere. Governor Robertssecond administration was a continuation of the wise andeconomical policy of the first, based on his maxim, so fullyindorsed by the people, of pay as you go. Soon after his. HISTORY OF TEXAS. 493 retirement from the executive office, he was elected by theregents of the State University, chancellor of that institution,a position for which the bar and the people of Texas con-sidered him eminently qualified by a judicial experience cover-ing forty years, and a residence in the State of fifty-oneyears. He yet fills that position. IRELANDS TWO ADMINISTRATIONS, 1883 TO 1887. John Ireland was born in Hart County, Kentucky, January1, 1827. In 1853 he settled as a lawyer at Seguin, 1861 he was a member of the secession convention. Heserved as a private, captain, major and lieutenant-colonel in theConfederate army. In 1866 he was a member of the consti-tutional convention, and became district judge the same year,but was removed by the military a year later. In 1873 he was amember of the thirteenth legislature. In 1874 he was senatorin the fourteenth legislature. In 1875 he was appointed amember of the Supr
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