Laws of the Republic of Texas, Passed the First Session of Third Congress, 1839. Page: 12
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gio, San Patricio and Bexar, now actually residing in those
counties, and those citizens of said counties who have been
carried captive by the enemy, and those citizens of said counti-es
who have been compelled by the incursions of the Mexicans
and Indians to abandon their homes be, and they are
hereby exempted from direct taxation, from the date of the
passage of the law to raise a revenue by direct taxation, up
to the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
Provided, That this law shall not exempt from taxation,
more than one league and labor of land, belonging to the same
individual, nor any other species of property.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That this law shall not be so
construed as to exempt from direct taxation any person or
persons who are not actually residing in one of the before
mentioned counties, widows and orphans excepted.
JOHN'M. HANSFORD,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
DAVID G. BURNET,
President of the Senate.
Approved, December 21, 1888.
MIRABEAU B. LAMAR.
A BILL
Entitled an act to change a certain Post Route therein named.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Howse of Representatives ofj
the Republic o' Texas in Congress assembled, That the present
Mail R:oute from the city of Houston to Nacogdoches, by
way of Cincinnati, be so changed, that after leaving Cincinnati,
it. pass by the way of Mustang Prairie Post Office,
thence to Crockett, Houston county, thence to intersect the
present Route at Williams, on the Neches river.
JOHN M. HANSFORD,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
DAVID G. BURNET,
President of the SenmteApproved,
December 21, 1t38.
:MIRA~BEAU >B. jLAP AtR.
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