SOURCES OF INFORMATION.

1. Acts of Congress, the constitution, messages of the presidents, and government records of the Republic of Texas.

2. Acts of the legislature, State constitutions and journals of the legislature and State conventions, governors' messages and records of State officers, and various documents published by the State.

3. Acts of the legislature, enacting and amending general and special laws of the State governing the sale or lease of school and university lands.

4. Reports of the university regents, faculty reports, addresses, bulletins, circulars, catalogues, magazines, and other university publications.

5. Reports of State comptrollers, as to the "school" and the "university funds;" and reports of State land commissioners and State land board, as to the "school" and the "university lands."

6. General and special acts of appropriations for the free schools and for the State university and its branches.

7. Reports of the State board of education and State superintendents of instruc tion, and files of school journals and State newspapers kept in the State library. 8. Publications of the United States Bureau of Education, and reports of the United States Commissioners of Education.

9. Scarff's Comprehensive History of Texas, Mrs. Harby's Earliest Texas, Sweet's Trip Through Texas, Raines's Bibliography of Texas, Lane's History of the Univer sity of Texas, History of the Catholic Church, published in San Antonio, Tex.

10. Brown's, Thrall's, Yoakum's, and Morphis's Histories of Texas, Fulmore's Lectures on Texas History.

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