I am familiar with Texas. and the process by which that country has been peopled. I went to Texas at an early day. We have about two hundrcd and seventyfive million acres of land there. and a newcomer to the country. as the immigrant was termed. from time to time would make his appearance. He would go to some -leading man i the neighborhood and ask for public lands. A man was entitled in the first settlements there to a league or more. subsequnotly it was reduced. to thirds of leagues. twelve hundred and eighty acres. six hundred and forty acres. and down finally Ibelievo in 1842. or 1843 perhaps. to three hundred and twenty acres for heads of families. There were shrewd men that at first emigrated to that country. as there will be in all those vast regions now known as the Territories of the United States. Those men who were first therc. when persons would move to the country seeking homes honestly. with the inducements that had been heldout to them to do so. would seek over the country information to know where a good tract could be procured. The shrewd men there before them almost invariably had all these fine selections secured. and how were they secured I It was termed there by the wise ones that they had them lariated out. hey were filed] upon. to uso the term. and a very proper one. ton.
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