University of North Texas Creates Historical Law Resource

The University of North Texas has digitized Gammel's Laws of Texas, Volumes 1-10, and made them freely available at http://texinfo.library.unt .edu/lawsoftexas/. The Laws were published at the end of the 19th century and encompass a wide variety of laws, including colonization laws and constitutions. There are over 16,000 pages of documents in this collection, viewable as PDF files.

You may view the Laws in one of two ways. You can browse each volume (hold your mouse over the volume number and a window pops up with links to particular resources in that volume) or you can search by keywords. A plain keyword search is available, or you can do an advanced keyword search. Considering the advanced keyword search only allows you to narrow your search to things like image and remote anchor text, it's not as useful as it could be, but the basic keyword search works fine.

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