1874 Lancaster Texas TAX RECEIPT ALBERT BLEDSOE comptroller E.D. WALKER

Description: PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING: I sell ORIGINAL items ONLY and NOT ANY reproductions.This sale is for a One PAGETax Receipt ForState and County Taxes for the year of 1871 It is SIGNED byA. BLEDSOE (Albert)Comptroller The document is dated in the year of 1874LaNCa$ter , Texa$ The payee of the taxes is E. D. WALKERHistorical notes: Albert, A. Bledsoe (unknown-1882)Source of date Texas State Historical Association (online)Albert Bledsoe pioneer settler, state comptroller, and county judge, moved to Dallas County, Texas from Kentucky in 1847. He purchased the headright of Roderick Rawlins, who later became his son-in-law. Bledsoe subdivided the tract and surveyed a townsite that he called Lancaster. He was elected chief justice of Dallas County in 1865 but lost a reelection bid the following year. He also failed in an attempt to represent the county at the Constitutional Convention of 1866. During the Reconstruction he was appointed county judge, a position he held until 1869. He was elected to represent Dallas County at the Constitutional Convention of 1868-69, where his political views aligned him with the Radical Republican faction. He was nicknamed “Iron-clad” after he publicly took the “Iron-clad” oath of loyalty to the United States. He served on the committee that recommended the establishment of the controversial and unpopular State Police to curb lawlessness and violence.Bledsoe returned to Dallas after the convention and remained a county judge until he was appointed comptroller of the public accounts. He gained notoriety in this position for his refusal to allow the transfer of $500,000 worth of state bonds to the International Railroad Company and for filing fraud charges -of which the rail line was found innocent-against the company in the state district court in Austin in February 1873. Bledsoe contended that the rail company had arranged to pay a number of state legislators in return for their votes in favor of the 1870 legislation authorizing the transfer of $10,000 in bonds for each mile of track constructed by the railroad. Upon the completion of fifty miles of track, the company had demanded $500,000 in bonds, which Governor E.J. Davis signed but which Bledsoe, as state comptroller, refused to sign. The company filed a writ of mandamus in state district court to force Bledsoe to sign and deliver the bonds. The matter eventually reached the state Supreme Court, which, by a three to two vote, voided the writ, thereby sideing with Bledsoe. The end of Reconstruction in Texas hastened the end of Bledsoe’s public career. He died at his home in Dallas on October 8, 1882.Other data onlineLancaster, Texas (Dallas County) Lancaster is at the junction of the State Highway 242 and Pleasant Run Road, fourteen miles south of the Dallas in southern Dallas County Ten Mile Creek and its tributaries run throughout the area. Abram Bledsoe bought half of the Roderick Rawlins survey in 1847 and five years later laid out a city plan near the community of Pleasant Run. He named his township Lancaster, after the name of his birthplace Lancaster, Kentucky. Bledsoe brought with him his daughter, Virginia a schoolteacher, who married Roderick A.. Rawlins, the son of Roderick Rawlins, a settler in the area since 1845. The White family of Tennessee moved to Lancaster in late 1851, and R.P. Henry, a native of the France, moved his family to Lancaster in the early 1860’s. A carding machine was operated in the community in 1850. Dr. H.J. Moffett established his drugstore and practice there in 1851. In 1860 a post office was established in Lancaster. Condition: Normal letter folds, slight separation at one of the folds a few minor tears at top & bottom margin not noticeable. The signature of Albert Bledsoe can be seen at the bottom. The document is in very good condition otherwise. Note this document will be delivered in an archival clear sleeve with a typed copy of the data above as historical reference. The "EBAY ITEM" thing is just a loose piece of paper that is not attached to the letterhead The size of this letter is 9" x 11 1/2".If you have any questions, please contact me.TERMS & CONDITIONS:Payment to EBAY upon purchase. Free shipping to the continental U.S. only. When you receive your item, PLEASE leave feedback (I will see it) and I will reciprocate feedback at that time. PLEASE view my other Ebay store items for related ephemera, antique documents, and paper collectibles at TEXASJOHNNYBOY EHEMERA! THANK YOU VERY MUCH and GOOD LUCK TO YOU.

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