Laws Passed by the Sixth Congress of the Republic of Texas. Page: 42
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42
AN ACT"
For the redemption of certain Texian Prisoners.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled,
That the sum of six hundred and nine dollars, in par funds, be,
and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of redeeming
from the Indians, two small white boys, the son and the nephew
of Jesse Cox, who were captured about the thirteenth or foburteenth
of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the sum of three hundred
dolIars, in par funds, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for
the redemption of Mrs. Tidwell, who was captured on the Brazos,
in one thousand eight hundred and forty.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the sum of three hundred
dollars, par funds, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the
redemption of the son of Mrs. Angeline D. Smith, taken from the
neighborhood of tile City of Austin by the hostile Indians, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and forty; and the further sum
of three hundred dollars, par funds, be appropriated for the redemption
of the son of Mrs. Lyons, of Fayette county, taken by
the Indians in the latter part of the year one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-seven.
SEC. 4. Be it further.enacted, That this act take effect from
and after 'its passage.
Approved 17th January, 1842..
AN ACT
To change the name of Charles Denny Morse to Charles De
Morse.
SEC. 1., Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represetaties-
.:' the Republic of Texas in -Congress -assembled,
-Tihat:ie nhi*fe of Gharles Denny Morse be, and hereby is cfnged
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ApprOved 17th January, 1842.
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