The Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying regulates surveyors, through examination and licensing, to ensure that Texas residents can obtain competent and accurate surveys prepared by qualified surveyors. These are meeting files of the State Board of Registration for Public Surveyors, 1955-1978, the Texas Board of Land Surveying, 1979-1989, and the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying, 1989-2008. The records usually include the minutes, agenda, the director's report, and committee reports. Topics covered concern the issuance and renewal of licenses; the administration of exams; education activities, including approval of education courses for surveying programs in colleges and universities, continuing education, and the Board's home study program; changes in rules and/or legislation affecting surveying and/or agency activities; resolving complaints against surveyors; the Board's disciplinary process regarding violations by surveyors; other surveying issues; litigation involving the board; and the administration of the agency. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the director's report and the committee reports are filed in the series Meeting supporting documentation. Meeting agenda are not usually present prior to the mid-1990s. Minutes are not present for the Board of Examiners of Licensed State Land Surveyors or its predecessor agency.

The Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying regulates surveyors, through examination and licensing, to ensure that Texas residents can obtain competent and accurate surveys prepared by qualified surveyors. These files contain minutes, agenda, correspondence, reports, pending legislation, rules, legal documents, license renewal forms, and other items submitted to the members of the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying for review prior to their meetings. Dates covered are 1995-2004. Topics covered concern the issuance and renewal of licenses; the administration of exams; education activities, including approval of education courses for surveying programs in colleges and universities, continuing education, and the Board's home study program; changes in rules and/or legislation affecting surveying and/or agency activities; resolving complaints against surveyors; the Board's disciplinary process regarding violations by surveyors; other surveying issues; litigation involving the board; and the administration of the agency. Reports present are those submitted by executive director and board committees. Earlier director's reports and committee reports are in the series Meeting files. Other reports present are the annual financial report and a summary report on examinations. The majority of material in most files consists of correspondence sent to the board and discussed in its meetings. Most incoming letters have an outgoing response, primarily signed by the executive director of the board. Correspondents include board members, other government officials and staff, professional societies, surveying boards in other states, surveyors, engineers, and the general public.

The Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying regulates surveyors, through examination and licensing, to ensure that Texas residents can obtain competent and accurate surveys prepared by qualified surveyors. This is a combination personnel and policy manual of the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying, dating 1991, 1994. It contains agency policies for various licensing and regulation procedures, personnel and accounting procedures, and a list of board members.

The Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying regulates surveyors, through examination and licensing, to ensure that Texas residents can obtain competent and accurate surveys prepared by qualified surveyors.This volume served as an index to bonds and examination papers of licensed state land surveyors. It lists the name, address, county, dates, bond number, and remarks, that say when the bond was issued, renewed, etc. Dates of entries are 1920-1980, bulk 1920-1954. Entries are alphabetical by surveyor. The end of the volume contains a list of surveyors by county, compiled in 1936. This volume now functions as a roster of surveyors for that time period.

The original volume is on file at the Texas General Land Office. The State Archives holds a photocopy for reference purposes. Many of the additions to the index were done in colored pencil which did not always copy well, so researchers may need to refer to the original index occasionally for interpretation of the notes.