I recently came across a website that I thought might be of interest. It is http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/lawsoftexas/ The University of North Texas has put H.P.N. Gammell's "Laws of Texas" (vols 1-10) online. This collection spans all the laws passed by Texas from the Mexican period, through the Republic, up to 1897. Laws relating to the creation of Kaufman county, altering its boundaries, cutting off Rockwall county, incorporating the town of Kaufman, incorporating schools in Kaufman, Rockwall, Cedar Grove and Johnson's Point, and incorporating toll bridges across the East Fork of the Trinity and King's Creek are among its contents. In addition to special laws relating to Kaufman county, there are general laws relating to topics of genealogical interest-- if your ancestor owned a saloon, you can find what license requirement he had to meet, for example. Unfortunately, it is a little hard to search through. But there is a great deal of interesting material in it which helps to understand the period. Justin M. Sanders "I shot an arrow into the air. It fell Dept. of Physics to earth I know not where." --Henry Univ. of South Alabama Wadsworth Longfellow confessing [email protected] to a sad ignorance of ballistics.