The Last Compilation of Texas Laws Published Before the Civil War Commissioned by an act of the Texas State Legislature in 1858, Oldham and White's Digest was the last compilation of Texas laws published before the Civil War. It includes the general statute laws, repealed laws of the Republic and State of Texas, "by, through, or under which rights have accrued," and the colonization laws of Mexico and of the State of Coahuila and Texas, which were...