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Laws of the Republic of Texas.
197
SAM. HOUSTON.
AN ACT
(1257)
Supplementary to an act, for the punishment of Crimes and Mis-
demeanors.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the republic of Texas, in Congress assembled, That if any
person or persons shall introduce any African negro or negroes,
contrary to the true intent and meaning of the ninth section of
the general provisions of the constitution, declaring the introduc-
tion of African negroes into this republic, to be piracy, except such
as are from the United States of America, and had been held as
slaves therein, be considered guilty of piracy; and upon conviction
thereof, before any court having cognizance of the same, shall
suffer death, without the benefit of clergy.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any person or per-
sons shall introduce into the republic of Texas, any Africans or
any slave or slaves, from the United States of America, except
such slave or slaves as were previously introduced and held in
slavery in that republic, in conformity with the laws of that gov-
transporting the mail any time during the year eighteen hundred
and thirty-seven, shall be entitled to, and may take the same in
land at fifty cents per acre, and by paying office fees, and for sur-
veying: Provided, it shall not be located in tracts of not less than
three hundred and twenty acres, in the form of a square; or if
laid on a principal water course, to front it half the distance of the
perpendicular; and the certificate of the postmaster general, shall
be good evidence of all such claims, in any land office' of this re-
public: and, further provided, that no person entitled to lands
under this act, shall be at liberty to locate the same, until the ex-
piration of six months after the land office shall have been opened.
IRA INGRAM,
Speaker of the house of representatives.
. RICHARD ELLIS,
President pro tern, of the senate.
Approved, Dec. 21, 1836.
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