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Laws of the Republic of Texas.

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AN ACT
Requiring the Secretary of the Navy to have surveyed the Bars
and Passages of the Bays and Harbors of Texas.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and required to have
surveyed as soon as practicable the bars and entrances of the
Sabine, Galveston, Velasco, Pass de Cavallo, and Aransas, and
have placed at each a good and sufficient buoy or buoys, in such
manner that the channels of the aforesaid bays may at all times
be plainly indicated, together with such instructions, bearings with
land marks, courses and distances, as may aid the entrances of
marines with all possible facility into our ports.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the inside bars and channels
of the bays of Sabine, Galveston, Matagorda, La Bacca, Aransas
and Corpus Christi, be staked or buoyed, as the nature of the navigation
may require in the bays.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons who
may destroy, remove or displace, any buoy or buoys, stake or stakes,
on conviction thereof shall be fined in the penal sum of one thousand
dollars, and imprisoned six months in the county goal.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby
appropriated to carry the aforesaid act into effect; and the Secretary
of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to the Secretary
of the Navy this amount, for the aforesaid purpose; and that on
completion of the work it shall be published in the New Orleans
Bulletin, the Texas Telegraph, and Intelligencer of Texas, for
three months.
JOHN M. HANSFORD,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
DAVID G. BURNET,
President of the Senate.
Approved, January 26, 1839.
MIRABEAU B. LAMAR.

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