ment, signed by some practicing physician, recommending the sale thereof for medicinal purposes.

SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of the foregoing section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any court having jurisdiction of the same, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for every such offense. SEC. 3. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 3d, 1873.

CHAPTER LVIII.

An Act to amend "An Act to authorize the Transcript of the Records of Bowie County."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That section first of the above recited act shall hereafter read as follows:

SEC. 1. That the County or Police Court of Bowie county be, and it is hereby authorized to cause to be transcribed from the original records now properly belonging to the office of the clerk of the District Court of said county, so much of said records as in the opinion of said County or Police Court may need transcribing, including a cross-index.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That section second of the above recited act shall hereafter read as follows:

SEC. 2. That it shall be competent for the County or Police Court of said county, to levy and have collected, as other taxes, an ad valorem tax of not more than ten cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property in said county, to provide for having said transcript made. That the compensation allowed for making said transcript shall not exceed twenty cents for each one hundred words.

SEC. 3. That said County or Police Court shall not order payment for said transcript, nor shall said tran script have the force and effect of the original records, until after the said court shall cause the clerk of said court to append to each book containing said transcript, his certificate under the seal of said court, showing that

the justices of said court, in open court, have compared said transcript, word by word, and line by line, with said original books, and that said transcript is found to be, in all respects, correct.

SEC. 4. That this act take effect and be in force from: and after its passage.

Approved April 3d, 1873.

CHAPTER LIX.

An Act to prohibit the sale or otherwise disposing of Intoxicating Liquors within two miles of "The Acton Masonic Institute," in the County of Hood.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That it shall not be lawful for any person or firm, either with or without license, to sell or barter, in any manner, intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal or sacramental purposes, within two miles of "The Acton Masonic Institute," an institution of learning located six and a half miles from the county seat of Hood county.

SEC. 2. That any person violating the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, before a justice of the peace or other court having jurisdiction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined in any sum not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.

SEC. 3. That this act take effect and be in force sixty days after its passage.

Approved April 3d, 1873.

CHAPTER LX.

An Act to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating or Spirituous Liquors within. two miles of Bird's Creek School House, in Bell County, Texas.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That no person shall be permitted to sell any intoxicating or spirituous liquors within two miles of Bird's creek school house, in Bell county, Texas, except.

for sacramental, or, upon the prescription of some practicing physician, for medicinal purposes.

SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of the foregoing section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in a sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense.

SEC. 3.

That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 3d, 1873.

CHAPTER LXI.

An Act to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating, Spirituous or Vinous Liquors within two (2) miles of Pleasant Grove Academy, in Hunt County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to dispose of any intoxicating, spirituous, or vinous liquors, by sale, or otherwise, except for medicinal or sacramental purposes, within two (2) miles of Pleasant Grove Academy, in Hunt county.

SEC. 2. That any person or persons violating the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, for each and every offense.

SEC. 3. That this act take effect and be in force sixty days after its passage. Approved April 3d, 1873.

CHAPTER LXII.

An Act to provide for an Election of City Officers for the City of Columbus, and regulate their duties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That an election shall be held in the city of Columbus, on the first Tuesday of June next, and on

that day and month every two years thereafter, for the election of a mayor, five aldermen, one recorder, one treasurer, and one marshal, who shall each hold his office for the term of two years from the day of his election. and until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. The city council of said city shall be composed of the mayor and aldermen elected and qualified as aforesaid, and the recorder shall act as clerk at their sessions. That no person shall be elected or appointed to any office in said city who is not, at the date of his election, a legal registered voter of the city, or had not been a resident within the limits thereof, for sixty days next before the day of his election or appointment, and none shall enter upon the duties of his office until he takes the oath prescribed by the Constitution of this State for all officers, and also that he was, at the date of his election or appointment, a legal registered voter of the city of Columbus, and had resided within the limits thereof for sixty days next preceding that date, which oath of office shall be made before any officer authorized to administer oaths in such cases, filed with the mayor and preserved by him in his office as a record thereof.

SEC. 2. That for the purposes of this and all. other elections in said city, there shall be made a new registration of the legal voters within the said city; that there shall be procured, at the expense of the city, a suitable, well bound book, in which shall be registered the names of the electors or voters of said city, in alphabetical order, with age, nationality, and color of each voter, and numbered consecutively from one to the end.

SEC. 3. That S. N. Doty, John G. Gilmore and Isaac Yates are appointed a board of registrars for said city, to act until after the close of the election in April next (any two of them may perform the duties of the board under this act); but before either of them shall enter upon the duties of his office, he shall take the oath prescribed by the Constitution of this State, before any officer authorized to administer oaths; and each of them shall have authority to administer oaths in all matters and things appertaining to said registration and election. Should either of them fail to act on the said board, it shall be the duty of the mayor of said city to fill the vacancy by appointment.

SEC. 4. Any person who may apply to said board to

be registered, and will make an affidavit in writing that he possesses all the qualifications of a legal voter in said city, as prescribed by this act and the Constitution of this State, and that he has resided in the limits of said city for sixty days next preceding the next election (setting them out in the affidavit in full), sign and swear to the same before one of said board, it shall then be their duty to diligently inquire into the truth of the affidavit, subpœna witnesses before them and hear testimony, if deemed proper, in order to get at the truth, and if satis fied that he is legally entitled to vote in said city election, they shall then register his name in the book provided for that purpose. The affidavit of the voter shall be entered in a book kept for that purpose, and preserved with the book of registration.

SEC. 5. That for five days (Sunday excepted), before any election, the said board, or those who may act in its stead, shall hear all objections and testimony for and against the right of any registered person to vote in said city elections; and if it appear that any one has been registered at any time, who has no right to vote at the next election, they shall strike his name from the list of voters and make a note of the same on the books, but not until the person objected to shall have at least one day's personal notice thereof, or three days by posting the notice at the court house door of said city, given by any voter thereof, unless he be registered within the three last days of the registration, then any reasonable notice shall be sufficient.

SEC. 6. The board shall register the names of every person who shall prove that he will be entitled to vote at the next election, though he may not be at the time he makes the application to register.

SEC. 7. The board shall give notice of registration and election by posting notice at the court house for fifteen days before the election, and shall receive applications for registration for ten days (Sundays excepted) next be fore any election, and until four o'clock P. M. of the day next preceding the day of election (Sunday excepted) and shall not after that hour receive any other application to register, but shall immediately make out and append a certificate to the list of registered voters, that the same has been correctly made, and that the persons named in said list they believe are entitled to vote in said