The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 2 Page: 189
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Laws of the Republic of Texas.
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from the Department, to present and deliver it to the clerk of the
District court; and it is hereby made the duty of said clerk, on receiving
such list of delinquents, to issue execution against the property
of such delinquents, when the amount of tax due requires the
intervention of that court; and such execution shall be handed to
the Sheriff, who shall levy upon the property assessed or on any
other property belonging to such delinquent, for double the
amount of the tax and costs, from the list of delinquents furnished
by the Treasury Department, the Sheriff shall draw a list of all
those delinquents, from whom the amount of tax due, comes within
the jurisdiction or cognizance of a Justice of the Peace, and deliver
the same to that officer, who, upon receiving it, shall immediately
issue execution against the property of such delinquents,
and hand the same over to the Sheriff, who shall levy, as provided
for under the executions to be issued by the District Courts, for
double the amount of tax and costs; and if the property levied
upon, under the provisions of this section, be real estate, it shall
be advertised in a public newspaper for forty days previous to the
day of sale; should execution be levied on personal property, it
shall be advertised at three or more public places in the county for
twenty days previous to the day of sale, and then sold for the
amount of double taxes and costs; and if the property seized and
sold be real estate, it may be redeemed at any time within two
years, on payment being made of double the amount of purchase
money, subsequent tax paid, and interest thereon at twenty per
cent. per annum as damages and penalty.
Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That from and after the first
day of March next ensuing, there shall be collected from the
owner or proprietor of any theatre or theatrical establishment in
this Republic, an annual tax of two hundred dollars. Every person
who shall exhibit or cause to be exhibited for emollment or
pay, any museum, wax-work, feats of activity or slight of hand,
or any diversion of this character, under any name whatever, shall
first obtain from the clerk of the County Court a license therefor,
for which he, she, or they, shall pay the sum of fifty dollars.
From the owner or proprietor of every public race track, there
shall be collected an annual tax of one hundred dollars. For
every horse kept exclusively for racing, the sum of ten dollars;
for every stud horse or jackass which may stand for the season,
the price for which such stud horse or jack may stand by the
season; for every horse kept exclusively for the saddle or pleasure
carriage, one dollar each; for all other horses, excepting four for
each farmer, or for each laboring or working man, who
uses his horse in any mechanical art or branch of industry,(189)
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 2, book, 1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6726/m1/193/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .