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LAWS OF THE TENTH LEGISLATURE-EXTRA SESSION. 2
CHAP. 10. Amending Article 348, A, of the Penal Code, as follows: If any
officer of the law shall wilfully or negligently fail to perform any duty imposed
upon him by the Penal Code, he shall, when the act or omission is not otherwise
defined, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as prescribed in Article
349 of this Code.
CHAP. 11. Requiring Chief Justices, or County Commissioners when Chief
Justices refuse or neglect to act, to ascertain the number of indigent persons in
their respective counties entitled to relief under an act to provide for the sup-
port of soldiers' families, and make an accurate return of the same to the Comp-
troller's Office, on or before the 1st September, 1864, and also 'on or before ist
March, 185.
CHAP. 12. Authorising the Military Board to furnish the Reporter of the
Decisions of the Supreme Court with stationery.
CHAP. 13. Authorising the Governor to appoint certain officers to represent
the interest of the State, and of the citizens and soldiers of the State, at the
Head Quarters of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and at the Head Quarters
of the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, with the rank and pay of
Colonels of Cavalry in the Confederate service-their pay to be out of the ap-
propriation made for the defense of the State by the Tenth Legislature.
CHAP. 14. Autholising the probating of wills, where the subscribing wit-
nesses are in the army and beyond the limits of the State, on proof by two uit-
nesses of the hand-writing of said subscribing witnesses, and also of the testa-
tor, either by affidavit in open court or by deposition.
CHAP. 15. Appropriating $5000 to pay for stationery and lighting materials
purchased for the use of the Tenth Legislature.
CHAP. 16: Requiring the Comptroller to refuse to receive State Bonds or
Treasury Warrants from Railway Companies for interest, whenever they fail to
receive them at par for freight or passage.
CHAP. 17. Making an additional appropriation of $150,000 for the support
of the Lunatic Asylum, for the years 18(4 and 1865.
CHAP. 18. Requiring specific appropriations to pay out or withdraw from the
Treasury any unappropriated specie that may be therein from time to time.
CIHAP. 19. Requiring the Comproller to draw warrants on the Treasurer pay-
able in State Treasury warrants, for appropriations made by the Tenth Legisla-
ture, for support, during the years 1864 and 1865, of the civil departments of
the Government and of soldier's families, also for payment of all Government
employees, and for general support of the public Asylums.
Also, for liquidating appropriations in general, except those specified above,
and those specially providing for the payment in specie, the Comptroller shall
draw warrants on the Treasurer, payable in Confederate Treasury Notes of the
new issue; Proridcd, when there shall not be such notes in the Treasury such
warrants umay be paid in Confederate Treasury Notes of the old issue, at the rate
of three dollars for two, or in Bank Ntes at par, if the payee be willing so to
receive payment.
Also, making said Treasury warrants receivable for all public dues, and fund-
able in six per cent. Bonds of the State, one year after peace, the interest and
principal of the Bonds being payable in specie.
Section fourth of this act reads as follows:
Whenever there shall he a surplus of specie in the Treasury, beyond special
appropriations for such funds, subject to appropriations for general purposes or
for the purposes specified in this Section, to the amount of thirty thousand dol-
lars, the Governor shall cause the same to be applied to the purchase of Treasu-
ry Warrants, issued under the first Section of this Act, at the lowest prices of-
feted, after advertising for bids for six consecutive weeks in some three newspa-
pers.in the State, published at different places and having large circulation.
Section 5, repeals all existing laws incompatible with this act.
CHiAP. 20. Authorising the Governor to use such specie fmnds as he may have
under his control belonging to the State, accruing from the sale of cotton and oth-
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