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Laws of the Republic of Texas.
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AN ACT
Approved, Dec. 21, 1837.
SAM. HOUSTON.
AN ACT
( 1453 )
To authorize the Clerks of the several courts to appoint deputies
and requiring them to keep their offices at the county seat.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, by the senate and house of representatives
of the.republic of Texas, in congress assembled, That the clerks of
the several county and district courts of this republic be authorized
to appoint a deputy, to whom they shall administer an oath, faith-
fully to discharge the duties of their office, and they shall in all
cases be responsible for the conduct of their deputies.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That hereafter the clerks of the
county and district courts of this republic, be, and they are hereby
compelled to keep all papers pertaining to their offices at the county
seats of each and every county, and be ready either by deputy or in
person to attend to the business of their office from ten o’clock
A. M. to four o’clock P. M.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That any clerk or clerks who shall
fail within thirty days hereafter to keep their office at the place in
the manner as specified in the foregoing section, shall forfeit and
pay to the republic twenty dollars for each day they shall so neglect
the provisions of said section, to be sued for and recovered before
' any justice of the peace of the proper county, at the instance of any
person interested.
S. H. EVERITT,
Speaker of the house of representatives.
MIRABEAU B. LAMAR,
President of the senate.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of repre-
sentatives of the republic of Texas in congress assembled, That
when said chartered company have completed their work as
Supplementary to an act to incorparate the Colorado Navigation
Company.
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