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Title: An Act, Locating temporarily the Seat of Government.
Identifier: BC_0086
Creator: Texas (republic). Laws.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1839
Box: BC DB 1838-1839
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas...That...after the first day of April next, the seat of Government for the Republic of Texas, shall be established at the town of [blank] until the end of the Session...which shall assemble in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty. [handwriting on back]

Title: An Act, to quiet forever the Land Titles of the Citizens of Texas.
Identifier: BC_0081
Creator: Texas (republic). Laws.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1837
Box: BC DB 1837
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: Whereas, by the colonization laws of the federal government of Mexico, and also of the state of Coahuila and Texas, certain formalities were required on the part of the colonists and empresarios...Now, therefore, be it enacted by...congress assembled...That the above mentioned description of titles be...good and valid...

Title: Bill of sale for slaves, Bill of sale for slaves
Identifier: di_11544
Creator: Devereux, Julien Sidney, Sr.
Dates: 1832-02-15
Box: 2N208
Folder: General correspondence, 1830-1835
Resource: Julien Sidney Devereux family papers
Description: A bill of sale for slave Kizzy, her four children, and two mules written out and witnessed by Julien Sidney Devereux.

Title: Certificate of Stock in the Town of Swartwout.
Identifier: BC_0308
Creator: Swartwout. Proprietors.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1838?
Box: 3N182 file 9
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: This is to Certify, that ------ is the holder of One Share of Stock in the Town of Swartwout, being the one hundredth part of the Stock of said Town, which is situated on Trinity River, Texas. [Blanks for signatures of] Proprietors. [Perpendicularly at left of certificate:] Telegraph Press--Houston. [handwriting on back] [Decorated with illustrations and borders in ornament areas.]

Title: Domínguez Grant
Identifier: BC_0049
Creator: Domínguez Grant.
Topic: Mexico--History--19th century--Sources
Dates: 1831-11-11
Box: BC DB 1831-1832
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: ---Another certificate, for one labor, instead of for one sitio of land, with text beginning: No. ---177 186/1000 English acres and with same printed date, same description, same statement at lower left, and same blanks for signatures but from another set [Decorated with patterns as design elements.] Possibly made in New York

Title: Harrisburg County, Board of Land Commissioners.
Identifier: BC_0085
Creator: Harrisburg County, Board of Land Commissioners.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1839
Box: BC DB 1838-1839
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: This is to Certify that [blank] has appeared before us, the Board of Land Commissioners, for the County aforesaid, and proved that [blank] arrived in this Republic in [blank]... [Decorated with borders in ornament areas.]

Title: Republic of Texas, County of Washington, marriage license.
Identifier: BC_0088
Creator: Republic of Texas, County of Washington.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1839-12-07
Box: BC DB 1838-1839
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: Republic of Texas county of Washington, To any regularly ordained Minister of the Gospel, District Judge, Chief Justice of the County Court, or Justice of the Peace of said County, Greeting: You are hereby authorized and empowered to solemnize the rites of Matrimony between ....[This complete form is the marriage license of Robert McAdory and Nancy Ann Swisher. Dated:] at Washington, this Seventh day of December 1839. [handwriting on back]

Title: Texas (republic). Paymaster General.
Identifier: BC_0079
Creator: Texas (republic). Paymaster General.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1837[?]
Box: BC DB 1837
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: [printed form, certificate of bounty land.] Republic of Texas. Know all men to whom these presents shall come: That [blank] having served faithfully and honorably for the term of [blank] months from the day of...is entitled to [blank] acres bounty land, for which this is his certificate. [handwriting on back] [Decorated with borders in ornament areas.]

Title: Texas (republic). Paymaster General.
Identifier: BC_0080
Creator: Texas (republic). Paymaster General.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1837[?]
Box: BC DB 1837
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: [printed form, certificate of bounty land.] Republic of Texas. Know all men to whom these presents shall come: That [blank] having served faithfully and honorably for the term of [blank] months from the day of...is entitled to [blank] acres bounty land, for which this is his certificate. [Decorated with patterns as design elements.]

Title: To the People of Texas.
Identifier: BC_0253
Creator: Texas (provisional government). General Council. Advis
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1836-02-08
Box: BC OB 1836-1839
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: [Text begins:] Council Hall, San Felipe de Austin, Feb. 8, 1836. The advisory committee, appointed by the general council, to act in the absence of a quorum...[Text continues with an attack on Gov. Smith and the statement that two documents "emanating" from him follow. Signed:] D. C. Barrett, Chairman, [and four others. Followed by an order of Henry Smith to Thomas R. Jackson, dated January 24, 1836 and by an undated letter of Smith to Colonel W. G. Hill]. [Broadside in three columns] [handwriting on back] [Decorated with patterns as design elements.]