Texas Almanac, 1859 Page: 26

ZO TEXAS ALMANAC.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT
FOR TRE YEARS 1858 AND 1859. (154.)
For the Executive Dparmei ................. r-,,- .,-
General Land Office, ................................... 46,400
" Comptroller's Office,...................... ....... 12,725
Clerks and Sheriffs of all the Counties, as required by Part 5,
Title 2, Penal Code, ............................. 20,000
" Attorney-General, ................................... 2,050
STreasury Department--... . .......... -............ 3,600
" Legislative Department:
Per diem ...................................... 61,500
Mileage,... .... .............................. 13,260
Officers of Legislature, .............................. 11,000
Contingencies,..................................... 20,000
Printing Laws and Journals,......................... 12,000
Distributing Laws and Report ....................... 2,500
Stationery, .................................... 15,000
State Department, .................................. 4,100
Court of Claims, ..................................... 5,925
State Engineers,...................................... 3,000
' Supreme Court, .................. ........... 23,900
" The Nineteen District Courts, including salaries of Judges
and District Attorneys, .............................. 52,250
" Blind Asylum,...................................... 6,500
Deaf and Dumb Asylum,... ...................... 6,500
" Lunatic Asylum,. ..................................... 15,000
Pressler's Map..................................... 1,000
" Latimer & Swindells, ................................. 80
" Lubbock & E. L. Ufford,.......................... ....... 50
Total appropriations, ..............................$342,740
N. B.-The appropriation for the Penitentiary is not here included, as that appro-
priation was not from the Treasury, but from the proceeds of sales of goods and
articles manufactured, which it is supposed will support that institution.
NEW DIGEST OF THE LAWS. (157.)
This Act provides fur a new revised Digest of all the general statute laws of
Texas, including those of the last Legislature, and to contain, in addition to the
laws now in force, all the repealed laws of the Republic and State, under which
rights have accrued; and also the Colonization laws of Mexico, and of Coahuila
and Texas, in force at the time of Texas Independence, with marginal notes, etc.
The Governor is required to advertise for proposals for 5000 copies in the style of
Hartley's Digest, the cost not to exceed $4 per copy, all to be delivered to the
Secretary of State in Austin by the 1st of July, 1859. The sum of $20,000 is
appropriated.
TAXES RELINQUISHED. (158.)
Nine tenths of the State taxes in Starr, Hidalgo, and Cameron are relinquished
to those counties to enable them to build jails.
RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. (159.)
The Act for River and Harbor Improvements is explained by declaring that the
sum of S15,000, named in that bill for that improvement of the Sabine river, was not
included in the $300,000 appropriated by the Act, but was so much in addition.
STATE AND COUNTY TAXES. (160.)
This Act reduces the State ad valorem tax from 15 to 12- cents on $100 value
of real and personal property, and counties are authorized to collect the same tax