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Texas was originally part of the Kingdom of Spain, and so some of the grants would have been from the Spanish Crown, later by the Vice-roys in the name of the crown, and later by the Governors and what not of Mexico for a short time after independence, and then finally and lastly by the govt of the Republic of Texas.
However, none of them would have been allodial in any sense of the word, as they were all issued conditionally, in many cases with very restricted and limited rights up to and including tenure, they were certainly always taxed, and subject to whatever govt was in existence at the time, and were and are in fact nothing more than property deeded from a govt to, usually, a citizen or colonist. A patent is nothing, but at best a fee simple deed with a fancy name, that is the beginning of the chain of title to a piece of property.
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