Laws Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of TexasTelegraph Office, 1864 |
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act take effect ACT to amend ACT to provide affidavit aforesaid aggregate amount America amount so sold animal annum appointed Approved December 16th approved March Assessor and Collector Brigade calendar month cents per gallon CHAPTER Chief Justice Clerk Commissioner committed Comptroller Confederate Confederate States army cotton bonds County Court deemed guilty defendant District Court dollars per gallon enacted Enrolling Officer estrayed exempt field notes filed firm force funds Galveston Governor hereafter read hereafter to read hereby appropriated hundred dollars JOINT RESOLUTION Land Office last rate liable Military Board Militia Misprision of Treason necessary non-commissioned officers oath offence owner paid passage payment Penitentiary person proper public enemy purchase purpose rate of value read as follows recited act repealed Salary SECTION Sheriff sold or bartered spinning jennies survey taker ten pin alley Tenth Legislature Texas thereof thousand dollars treason
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Page 16 - That the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.
Page 35 - ... with two or more sureties, to be approved by the Comptroller. SEC. 2. That no forfeiture shall accrue by reason of failure of purchasers to pay their several debts due for University lands, previous to the expiration of the time mentioned in the first section of this act. SEC. 3. That the provisions of this act shall apply to all purchasers of University lands, as well to those who have paid in part as to those who have failed to pay any portion of their indebtedness. SEC. 4. That an act, entitled...
Page 26 - They bore, indeed, this character upon their face, for they were made payable only " after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America.
Page 49 - June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and be Imprisoned not less than six months nor more than one year.
Page 26 - Comptroller shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution and...
Page 51 - Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of this resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.
Page 12 - Treason against the State shall consist only in levying war against it, or adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Page 33 - ... in at least three public places in the county, one of which shall be at the place where the court is held.
Page 37 - That he secretes himself so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served on him; or, 5.
Page 22 - ... any place in the army before his class shall have left the academy and received their commissions, unless upon the recommendation of the academic board of the academy : Provided, That all cadets now in the service, or hereafter entering the Military Academy at West Point, shall be called on to take and subscribe the following oath : " I, AB, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and bear true allegiance to the national government; that I will maintain and...