A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . and theremillions of acres, many various persons un- illegal titles, which recover. Briefly tem, as then exist-. RovALL I. Wheeler. Abnkr S. Lipscomb. THE OLD SUPREME COURT. ing under laws passed by the previous governments, was asfollows : The lands granted to \arious persons by the RepublicHeadrights consistcd of hcadrights, bounty^, and donation grants. Hcad-rts^hls were those lands which had been granted to the originalcolonists by virtue of their contracts of settlement, and thoseafterwards granted to immigrants by the la
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . and theremillions of acres, many various persons un- illegal titles, which recover. Briefly tem, as then exist-. RovALL I. Wheeler. Abnkr S. Lipscomb. THE OLD SUPREME COURT. ing under laws passed by the previous governments, was asfollows : The lands granted to \arious persons by the RepublicHeadrights consistcd of hcadrights, bounty^, and donation grants. Hcad-rts^hls were those lands which had been granted to the originalcolonists by virtue of their contracts of settlement, and thoseafterwards granted to immigrants by the laws of the provisionalgovernment, the government ad interim, and the Congresses of FIRST PERI()n OF STATFIIOOt). 3^9 the Republic. These were divided into four classes. Head-rights of the first class, as has been already stated, consisted ofthe lands granted to colonists under the colonization laws ofCoahuila and Texas ; to persons residing in Texas at the date ofthe Declaration of Independence ; and to volunteers who arrivedand served in the army between March 2 and August i, 1836,who were honorably discharged or died before December 14,1S37. In this class, heads of familie
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