NOTICE OF CLAIM FOR REFUND OF CAPITOL LAND PATENT FEES
A formal legal notice from Abner Taylor, contractor who built the Texas state capitol, announcing his intent to petition the legislature for repayment of over $10,000 he says he paid the state for land patents during construction.
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The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Page 5
Abner Taylor1 min readNotice is hereby given that I shall make application to the Twenty-fifth legislature of the state of Texas, to assemble at Austin on the second Tuesday in January, 1897, for the passage of a special law, the substance and object of which law will be to direct the refunding to me by the state of Texas of the sum of ten thousand five hundred and twenty-five and 80-100 ($10,525.80) dollars, being the sum of money paid by me to the state of Texas during the years 1886, 1887 and 1888 for patents for capitol lands earned by me, as contractor, for erecting the state capitol building. This the 20th day of December, 1896.
Abner Taylor.
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