The asylum lands, granted by the act of 1856, were surveyed in Callahan, Comanche, Eastland, Jones, Shackelford, Stephens, Taylor, and Tom Green counties.4 Instead of there being 100,-000 acres surveyed for each of the asylums, there appears to have been surveyed for the Blind Asylum, 104,457 acres; for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 102,259 acres; for the Orphan Asylum, 102,359 acres; for the Lunatic Asylum, 101,618 acres.5 The asylum lands are under the administration of the general land office and the history of their disposition is similar to that of the school lands. On August 31, 1902, only 4,846 acres of the asylum lands were unsold, and on August 31, 1912, all appear to have been sold, though the several asylum funds held notes for $172,199 for 122,578 acres sold and not paid out.6

1 MISS. Report of the auditor of the University.

2 Report of the Board of Regents, 1886, p. 7. J. J. Lane, History of Education in Texas, p. 143.

3 The value of these lands is placed at $1,346,971 in the balance sheet of the University in 1912; Report of the Board of Regents, 1910-1912, p. 107.

4 Land Office Report, 1878, p. 19.

5 Land Office Report, 1901-2, p. 38.

6 The amount of land notes held by the several asylum funds on August 31, 1914, was $158,661; Report of the State Treasurer, 1914, pp. 36-37.