Deeds issued by tax assessor-collector to sheriff for lands sold for taxes or forfeited to State of Texas to satisfy judgments in delinquent tax suits from July 1885 to March 1901. Shows court in which judgment rendered, date of seizure or levy, date and place of sale, amount of highest bid, name of purchaser, date and place of deed execution, name of sheriff as grantor, name of grantee, description of land, signature of grantor, notarization, date filed, date recorded, and signature of county clerk or deputy. Also includes original executions. Arranged chronologically by date filed.

Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design "relates to improvements in the class of washing-machines commonly known as 'cylinder washing-machines,' and has for its object the production of a machine which will operate thoroughly and expeditiously, and without injury to the fabric, while at the same time it is light and inexpensive in construction and simple in operation; and with these ends in view the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 10-20).

Patent for invention is to utilize in rejected hydraulic matter such as decomposed limestone.