Validated by the State of'
Honorable Commissioner:
Town of San Felipe de Austin,
October 16, 1832.
To the Agent
of the empresario, Citizen
Stephen
F. Austin, that
he may be pleased to report
on this petition, adding whether the tract is vacant and outside the ten
littoral leagues.
Arciniega [Rubric]
THIRD STAMP:
TWO REALE S
Coahuila and Texas for the Biennia of
1828 and 29. 30
and 31
and
32
Williams [Rubric]
[I,] Reuben Hornsby, a native
of the United States of the North and one of the colonists under the colonization
contract of the empresario, Citizen Stephen F. Austin, dated November 20, 1827,
[appear] before you with the greatest respect and say, that my status is that
of a married man, [and] that with my family I
have emigrated to this
country with the object of settling in it permanently and acquiring land for my
support, to which end and with the prior approval of the said Honorable
Empresario I have selected a
league of land situated on
the left margin of the Colorado River, about eight leagues above the Bexar Road
and carried on the plat as No. 17, for which reason I present myself to you
that you may be pleased to admit me and put me in possession of said league,
with the understanding that I offer to settle and cultivate it in conformity
with the provisions of the law. Therefore, I ask that you may be pleased to do
as I have requested, wherein I shall receive favor.
Town
of [San Felipe de] Austin, October 16, 1832 [s] Reuben Hornsby
Honorable [...]
[Translator's Note: The space reserved for the
report by Samuel M. Williams, Austin's agent, is blank in the original.]
In view of the statement by
the agent, Citizen Samuel M. Williams, in the foregoing report, I admit this
petition in conformity with the law and order that the designated tract be
surveyed by surveyor Samuel P. Browne so that the corresponding title may be
issued to the interested party.
Town
of [San Felipe de] Austin, Oct. 18, 1832 Migl. Arciniega
[Rubric]
Citizen Miguel Arciniega, the
commissioner appointed by the Supreme Government
of this State to distribute
and give possession of land and issue titles to
the new colonists in the
colonization enterprise of the empresario, Citizen Stephen F. Austin, outside
the ten littoral leagues of the coast:
Whereas Reuben Hornsby has
been received as a colonist in the
colonization enterprise
contracted with the government of the State of
Coahuila and Texas on
November 20, 1827, as appears on page 82 of this record book, and said Reuben
Hornsby having proved that he is married and finding in
his person the requisites
prescribed by the Colonization Law of the State of March 24, 1825; in
conformity with said law and with the instructions governing me dated September
4, 1827, and the additional article dated April 25, 1830, and in the
name of the State, I concede to, confer upon and put said Reuben Hornsby in
real and personal possession of one league of land, which land has been
Samuel M.
Williams
[RUbric]
surveyed by surveyor Samuel
P. Browne, previously appointed for the purpose,
with the following situation
and boundaries: Situated on the left margin of the Colorado River about eight
leagues above the new town of Bastrop and shown as
No. 11 on the survey plat;
and from a post set on the margin of the river 10 varas distant from a hackberry
bearing north 410 east and 12 varas from another [hackberry] bearing south 50
east, a line was run north 300 east 10,840 varas, where set a post, from which
a post oak marked + bears south 15 1/20 east 85 varas distant and another bears
south 20 west 82 varas distant. Thence north
600 west 2,500 varas, where
another post was set for the northern corner, from which an elm bears north 180
east 48 varas distant and another elm bears south 110 east 60 varas distant,
both marked +. Thence south 300 west 5,450 varas to the river, where a post was
set for the upper corner, 6 varas distant from an
elm bearing north 50 east and
9 varas from another bearing south 810 east, both marked +. Thence following
the river downward to the place of beginning, and it comprises one league of
land in area. Said tract belongs to the class of arable land in four
twenty-fifth parts and to that of pasture land in twenty-one
Va1idated by the State o:f
twenty-fifth parts, which
serves as classification for the pri~e he shall pay the State according to
Article 22 of said law under the penalties therein established; he being
notified that within one year he shall construct permanent landmarks at each
corner of the tract and that he shall settle and cultivate it in conformity with
the provisions of the law.
TWO REALE S
THIRD STAMP:
Coahuila and Texas for the Biennium of 1828
and 29 30 and 31 and 32
Williams
. [Rubric]
Therefore, exercising the
authority vested in me by the said law and the consequent instructions, I issue
the present instrument and order a testimonio taken from it and delivered to
the interested party in order that he may possess and enjoy the tract, he, his
children, heirs, and successors, or whoever from him or from them shall have
cause or right. Given in the town of San Felipe de Austin on the 30th day of
the month of October,
1832, which I sign with
assisting witnesses according to the law.
Assisting [witness] W. T.
Lightfoot
[Rubric]
1922
Migl. Arciniega
[Rubric]
[witness]
Assisting
C.
C. Givens
[Rubric]
Box 18
Folder 15