For postage and contingent expenses.. 250 00 For Librarian's accounts (deficiency, 1869 and 1870) 350 00 For salaries of thirty-five district attorneys. 7,000 00 1,200 00 For completing and furnishing Supreme Court building.. 15,000 00 For costs due and to become due sheriffs, clerks and 15,000 00 10,000 00 For 1872. For salaries of three judges of Supreme Court.... For clerks' fees in felony cases ... For books for Supreme Court library. For postage and contingent expenses. For publishing reports. For porter hire.. For Librarian's salary.. For salaries of thirty-five district judges 13,500 00 1,000 00 800 00 5,000.00 600 00 750 00 250 00 8,000 00 400 00 800 00 122,500 00 For salary of one criminal judge... 3,500 00 For salaries of thirty-five district attorneys 42,000 00 For salary of one district attorney, Criminal Court. 1,200 00 For costs to be paid sheriffs, clerks and district attorneys in district courts 30,000 CO For salaries of officers and employes... For sheriffs' fees in transporting prisoners. Repairs and improvements under supervision of Com missioners of Public Buildings. 7,325 00 10,000 00 REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS UNDER SUPERVISION OF COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Deficiencies. For General Land Office.... For improvement of Capitol grounds.. 3,000 00 2,000 00 MISCELLANEOUS. Deficiency. For salary of keeper of State Cemetery........ [See Note.J For 1872. For salary of Agent, Alabama and Coshatee Indians For pensions (old)......... For salary of keeper of State Cemetery.. Approved May 19, 1871. [See Note.] 100 00 300 00 10,000 00 3,112 50 100 00 NOTE.-The following items, under the head of "Miscellaneous," pas ed both houses, but were disapproved by the Governor, and have been stricken out of the printed act, viz: Deficiency. For pensions granted under act of August 13, 1870.... For 1872. For pensions granted under act of August 13, 1870..... $100,816 98 124,000 00 СНАРТЕER CIII. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNOR TO PREPARE AND ISSUE BONDS TO AN AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO MEET ANY DEFICIENCY IN THE RECEIPTS OF REVENUE FOR THE YEARS 1871 AND 1872, AND ALSO PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF SAID BONDS AND INTEREST THEREON. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the Governor be and is hereby authorized to have printed or engraved such an amount of bonds of the State of Texas in value not to exceed four hundred thousand dollars, with coupons bearing ten per cent. per annum interest, as may be sufficient to supply any deficiency of the revenue for the current and ensuing fiscal years, and meet appropriations made for support of the State Government and other purposes. SEC. 2. That such bonds shall be payable, principal and interest, in lawful money of the United States; that the interest coupons thereon shall be payable semi-annually, on the first day of September and the first day of March of each year, at such place or places as the Governor may designate; the said bonds to be redeemable at the pleasure of the State after two years and payable five years from date; provided, that they shall only be redeemable at even periods of six months, and when the semi-annual interest becomes due; provided, further, that the interest and principal of said bonds shall, at the discretion of the purchaser, be made payable in the city of New York or at the Treasury of this State. SEC. 3. That said bonds shall be issued under the direction of the Governor, and sold by him or his agent, at such time and price as will best serve the interest of the State; and the Governor shall also direct the style and denomination of said bonds. He is also hereby made the agent of the State to sell, dispose of and hypothecate said bonds to the best advantage, and is authorized to employ such agent or agents as he may deem necessary for the sale and disposition of said bonds, at a per centage to be allowed, not exceeding one per cent. SEC. 4. The Governor shall, as soon as said bonds are sold or hypothecated, turn over the proceeds to the State Treasury, and the said proceeds shall be there subject to the payment of all claims arising under appropriations for the support of the State Govern ment. SEC. 5. That the Treasurer of the State shall be and is hereby required, from year to year, to reserve and set apart, out of the revenue received from the ordinary taxes, a sufficient amount to pay the semi-annual interest on such of said bonds as may be sold or hypothecated, and said Treasurer, when said bonds become redeemable, shall also reserve and set apart out of said revenue a sufficient amount to pay, annually, one-third of the principal of said bonds; and it is hereby made the duty of the Governor to see that the part of said revenue so to be reserved and set apart be faithfully applied in payment of such interest and redemption of such principal at the times the same may, as herein provided, become due or redeemable; and for the payment of such interest and redemption of such principal out of said revenue, a preference shall be given over all other claims whatever; and the Governor is further authorized and required to cause a notice of not less than thirty days to be given of all proposals to redeem the principal of said bonds; provided, however, that if the receipts of revenue from the ordinary taxes will in any year permit, then a larger sum than one-third of the principal may be redeemed in such year. SEC. 6. That the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be required, is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of engraving and printing said bonds, and the plates used in engraving and printing the same shall be deposited in the vaults of the Treasury, or cancelled and destroyed under the direction of the Governor. SEC. 7. That this act take effect from and after its passage, and is hereby declared to be irrepealable in any of its provisions till principal and interest of said bonds are fully paid. Approved May 19, 1871. CHAPTER CIV. AN ACT FURTHER REGULALING PROCEEDINGS IN THE SEVERAL COURTS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Teras, That in the courts of this State there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to, or interested in the issue tried. SEC. 2. In actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other as to any transaction with or statement by the testator, intestate or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto by the court. SEC. 3. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 19, 1871. |