Excerpt from The American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1844: Being Bissextile or Leap Year; And Until July 4th, the Sixty-Eighth of the Independence of the United StatesIn the year 1819, the first grant of land in Texas was made to a citi zen oi the United States. It was made by the royal government.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.