into the county treasury, and the collector of said tax shall have power to enforce the collection thereof in the same manner as is provided by law for the enforcement of the collection of the State tax.

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

Passed January 29, 1874.

[NOTE. The foregoing act was presented to the Governor of Texas for his approval on the thirty-first day of January, 1874, at three o'clock and thirty minutes P. M., and was not signed by him or returned to the house in which it originated, with his objections thereto, within the time prescribed by the constitution, and thereupon became a law without his signature.-A. W. DEBERRY, Secretary of State.]

CHAPTER X.

An Act to amend Sections one, two, and three, of an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act to authorize the transcript of the Records of Bowie County," approved April 3, 1873.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That sections one, two, and three, of an act entitled "An Act to amend an act to authorize the transcript of the records of Bowie county," be amended so as to 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 into well bound books from the original records, now properly belonging to the office of the clerk of the district court of said county, such portions of said records as in the opinion of the court may be needful and necessary, and affix to the same a suitable index."

SEC. 2. That the compensation allowed for making such transcript shall not exceed fifteen cents for each one hundred words, and shall be paid for out of the general county fund, upon the order of the police or county court."

"SEC. 3. That the clerk of the district court shall append to each book his certificate, under seal, showing that the same contains true copies of the original records;

and such books, so certified to, shall have the same force and effect as the original records."

SEC. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 11, 1874.

CHAPTER XI.

An Act repealing an Act entitled "An Act to Prohibit the Sale or giving away of Spirituous, Vinous, Malt, and other Intoxicating Liquors, within two miles of certain places therein named," passed May 31, A. D. 1873, (page 717 Special Laws, Thirteenth Legislature), or so much thereof as applies to the town of Moscow, or the "Moscow Masonic High School."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That an act passed May 31, A. D. 1873, entitled An Act prohibiting the selling or giving away of spirituous, vinous, malt, and other intoxicating liquors, within two miles of certain places therein named, in so far as it related to the town of Moscow, or the "Moscow Masonic High School" be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 13, 1874.

CHAPTER XII.

An Act making an appropriation to pay Judgment in favor of E. M. Smith, against the State of Texas.

WHEREAS, E. M. Smith did, under and by virtue of an act entitled "An Act for quieting the title to real estate in the city of Austin," approved the eighteenth day of December, 1857, which said act was amended by the thirty-third section of article three of the constitution of 1866, recover a judgment on the twenty-second day of June, A. D. 1872, in the district court of and for Travis county, against the treasurer of the State, for the sum of two thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-two cents, and all costs of suit, which said costs amount to the sum of twenty-six dollars and eighty-five cents, and

Whereas, the original appropriation made for the payment of this claim has now become dormant, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the sum of two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and forty-seven cents, ($2725 47,) be, and is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the same.

SEC. 2. That the comptroller of public accounts be, and is hereby required to draw his warrant upon the treasurer for said sum in favor of E. M. Smith, or his attorney, W. A. Blackburn.

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

Approved February 21, 1874.

CHAPTER XIII.

An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Agricultural, Mechanical and Blood Stock Association of Texas," approved October 20, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the said Agricultural, Mechanical and Blood Stock Association of Texas be and is hereby authorized to borrow money and issue its bonds therefor to any amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, and, to securethe same, may mortgage the property of said company; but before any such mortgage is made and executed, it. shall be authorized by a vote of a majority of the stockholders in said corporation, at a meeting called for that purpose, after ten days' notice shall have been published in some paper published in the city of Houston.

SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force: from and after its passage.

Approved March 20, 1874.

CHAPTER XIV.

An Act to provide for the repayment to James J. Gathings, of Hill County, Money illegally extorted from him by the State Police.

WHEREAS, On the .... day of January, A. D. 1871, the State police, under command of Adjutant General Davidson, by force of arms, extorted from James J. Gathings the sum of one thousand dollars in gold coin, worth at the time in United States currency eleven hundred and fifty dollars; and the further sum of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars in United States currency, amounting in the aggregate, in United States currency, to the sum of two thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars ($2915); and,

Whereas, The above amount has been erroneously and wrongfully used by the State in the payment of the State police, and the State credited with the amount; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of Public Accounts to issue to the said James J. Gathings, twenty-eight treasury warrants for one hundred dollars each, and issue one for one hundred and fifteen dollars, which said warrants shall be paid as other warrants or requisitions on the State treasury.

SEC. 2. That the warrants herein provided for shall be receivable in payment of any demands in favor of the State, either in the hands of the original holder or in hands of any person to whom the same may be endorsed.

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

Approved April 7, 1874.

CHAPTER XV.

An Act to amend Section thirteen of an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Galveston Bank and Trust Company," approved April 26, 1871.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That section thirteen of the above recited act, which reads as follows: "Sec. 13. That if the sum of

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five hundred thousand dollars be not subscribed and actually paid in within three years after the passage of this act, then all the privileges hereby and herein granted shall be forfeited," be and the same is hereby so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 13. That if the sum of five hundred thousand dollars be not subscribed, and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars be not actually paid in, within three years from the passage of the above recited act, then all the privileges hereby and herein granted shall be forfeited.

SEC. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 13, 1874.

CHAPTER XVI.

An Act to amend the First Section of an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Texas Banking and Insurance Company," approved the twenty-eighth day of June, A. D., eighteen hundred and seventy.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the first section of an act to incorporate the Texas Banking and Insurance Company, be so amended as to read as follows:

"SEC. 1. That J. M. Brandon, E. S. Jemison, W. L. Moody, R. S. Willis, M. Quin, Geo. Schneider, J. C. Wallis, C. L. Cleveland, W. A. Fort, W. B. Wall, J. D. Skinner, Leon Blum, J. H. Littlefield, E. Randall, Selim Rinker, T. E. Compton, and their present and future associates, successors and assigns, be and hereby are incorporated and created a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Texas Banking and Insurance Company, and by the same name and style they and their successors shall be capable of suing and being sued, and maintaining any action to final judgment and execution, and shall be in law capable of purchasing, holding, improving and conveying any estate, real, personal, or mixed, for the use of said corporation. And the said corporation shall have the power to ordain, establish and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances and regulations as shall be necessary for the government thereof; but for the enactment, altering or amending of such by-laws, it shall require an affirmative