Hi, i think you will find all Spanish land was surveyed into Leagues, Labors (Pronounced laboors), and Varas. Austin's colonists were granted land in these terms. On the High Plains of Texas where all roads run east & west or north and South, older farmers measure their cotton in Labors and Varas . the so called section lines would be less than a Labor if you count to the road Right of Ways. Earlier county roads were counted as personal property to the center line. The land owners granted easements for the roads, which took a few acres out of crop production. The abstracts on Great Great Grandad Dr. Hatchett's land in Bosque and Erath Counties was first listed in Leagues, Labors, and Varas in the Milam County records before McClennan and Bosque and Erath Counties were organized out of Milam County. Spanish and early colonial buggies were made with a front wheel of a circumference of 16 1/2 feet or whatever made the system easy to multiply. They would tie a white rag to a spoke and count the revolutions of the front wheel to double check land measurements. Beats walking and dragging a chain and toting surveyor's stakes, especially in grass waist high with rattlesnakes & Copperhead Snakes. . My brother in Law Roy Whittenburg of Levelland used to talk of his cotton in Labors, not sections, until he retired a few years ago. We did not use the term in Erath County in my 70 years. Take care, Charles Wyly