Comptroller's Office ad valorem tax volumes 1835-1926, undated

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Comptroller's Office ad valorem tax volumes 1835-1926, undated

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The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts is the central accounting officer or chief fiscal officer of the state, and as such is responsible for maintaining effective methods for accounting for the state's funds; he or she is the state's principal tax administrator and collector of tax revenue. These records document the ad valorem (property) tax revenue owed and/or received by the State of Texas, as accounted for by the Comptroller of Public Accounts. Types of documents include fiscal and financial statements, registers, descriptions of lands, indexes, tax deeds, certificates of redemption, property tax receipts, tax receipt stubs, certificates of rolling stock, abstracts of land claims and land titles, correspondence, etc., dating 1835-1926 and undated.

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Texas State Archives

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The Office of Comptroller of Public Accounts was initially created by the General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas on December 29, 1835, elected by the General Council and commissioned by the Governor, for the purpose of examining and approving or rejecting any claims presented to him by the Auditor (also created by this ordinance). The Comptroller first appeared as a constitutional officer in the first state Constitution of Texas (1845), elected for a two-...