for shall be payable by installments, at such intervals as the board of directors may determine; provided, always, that at least twenty days notice of each payment shall be given in some newspaper published in the city of Corsicana, and that not more that ten per cent. shall be called for at one time; and provided further, that no stockholder shall ever be held liable through any action of the board of directors, or in any other manner, for more than the amount subscribed for or held by him, but should any stockholder fail, neglect or refuse to pay, or cause to be paid, any installment called for as herein provided, the stock on which said installment is due may be sold at public auction, or otherwise, as the board of directors may think best; the proceeds to be applied to the payment of the installment past due; the balance, if any, after deducting such payment and costs of the proceedings taken, be paid over to the delinquent owner.

SEC. 4. That the legal domicile and place of business of said association shall be in the city of Corsicana; and service of any and all legal proceedings, in any suit or proceeding against said corporation, shall be sufficient if made upon the president or vice-president thereof.

SEC. 5. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage, and the charter herein granted shall remain in full force and effect for and during the period of twenty-five years.

Approved April 15th, 1873.

CHAPTER LXXXVI.

An Act for the Relief of Stephen F. Minton, requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue certain Land Certificates to him.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be and he is hereby authorized and required to issue to Stephen F. Minton two land certificates for six hundred and forty acres of land each, which certificates may be located, surveyed and patented upon any of the public lands of the State not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage.

Passed April 17th, 1873.

[NOTE. The foregoing act was presented to the Governor of Texas for his approval on the eighteenth day of April, A. D. 1873, 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.-JAMES P. NEWCOMB, Secretary of State.]

CHAPTER LXXXVII.

An Act to authorize and empower the County Court of Bosque County to Levy and Collect a Special Tax for the purpose of Building a Court House and Jail, and to validate a tax already levied.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the County Court of Bosque county be, and the same is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and have collected a special tax, not to exceed one per cent. per annum upon all the taxable property in said county, for the purpose of building a court house and jail in said county.

SEC. 2. That said tax, or so much thereof as said County Court may deem proper, shall be levied and collected upon the assessment for the year 1873, and for each succeeding year thereafter, until a sufficient amount shall be raised to build said court house and jail.

SEC. 3. Said tax shall be assessed and collected as other State and county taxes.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the tax which has been heretofore levied by said court for the above named purpose is hereby legalized and made valid, and the court ís authorized to appropriate the money so collected to the erection of either of the buildings herein named.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That when said taxes. are collected, they shall be paid over to the county treasurer, who shall pay the same out on the order of the County Court; provided, said treasurer shall give bond for the faithful disbursement of said fund, which bond shall be approved by said County or Police Court; and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Passed April 18th, 1873.

[NOTE. The foregoing act was presented to the Governor of Texas for his approval on the twenty-first day of April, A. D. 1873, 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.-JAMES P. NEWCOMB, Secretary of State.]

CHAPTER LXXXVIII.

An Act to authorize the County Court of Henderson County to levy a tax to pay the outstanding indebtedness: the repairing of Bridges, the Jail, and the Court House; and for all other purposes for which the said County Court is by law authorized to levy a tax.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That for the purpose of paying off the outstanding indebtedness, and defraying the ordinary and general expenses and repairs to jail and court house, in repairing and building bridges, and for all other pur poses for which the County Court of Henderson county is now by law authorized to levy a tax, be and the said County Court of Henderson county are empowered and authorized to levy a tax on all taxable property in said county, not exceeding three-fourths of the State tax levied on the same property, which tax, when levied, shall be collected and paid into the county treasury of said county, as taxes now are by law.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all moneys derived from taxation, fines and forfeitures, sales of estray property, and from any other source due to and paid into the treasury of said county, shall constitute but one general fund for the ordinary expenses in the legal administration of the affairs of said county, and shall be disbursed under the direction of said County Court, without any preference of one claim to another against said county.

SEC. 3. Be it further. enacted, That all money that may be due said county from or by fines or forfeitures, sales of estray property, and also taxes, when the same can be conveniently offseted, may be paid off in any legal just claim allowed against said county.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and that the same be printed with general laws. Approved April 18th, 1873.

CHAPTER LXXXIX.

An Act to incorporate the Kaufman County Agricultural, Mechanical and Blood Stock Association.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That H. J. Snow, F. A. Waters, H. L. Parsons, Green J. Clark, Frank Hallonquist, J. W. Fender, W. L. Fowler, George Stovall, A. J. Stovall, A. T. Wilson, B. S. Wood, H. T. Nash, Andrew A. Henry, Samuel Pyle, G. A. Buchanan, Geo. D. Manion, Benjamin Morris, R. B. Shaw, R. A. Terrill, T. C. Saddler, and their associates and successors, be and they are hereby declared a body corporate and politic under the name and style of the "Kaufman County Agricultural, Mechanical and Blood Stock Association;" and as such shall be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, contracting and being contracted with, and doing and performing all things necessary to carry into effect the objects of this act of incorporation; and shall have a corporate seal.

SEC. 2. That the objects of said association are declared to be, the improvement of the breed of domestic animals and the encouragement of agricultural and mechanical improvements; and for these purposes said association is authorized to purchase, import, breed and sell any kind of domestic animals, and to purchase, import, manufacture, exhibit and sell such improved machinery and implements as will promote the mechanical, agricultural and manufacturing interest of the people of said county of Kaufman or of the State; provided, nothing herein contained shall infringe upon the rights of patentees; and for the further purpose of carrying out the objects of this association as above declared, said association is hereby authorized to own the necessary real estate for fair grounds, and to erect upon the same such improvements as may be necessary to carry out the objects of this association. That the fair grounds and other im

provements of said association shall be located in the county of Kaufman in this State.

SEC. 3. That the board of directors shall have power to make all necessary rules and regulations for the holding of their fairs and for the preservation of order and decorum, and the protection of the fair grounds from disturbances or breaches of the peace during the time of holding fairs. At the commencement of said fairs, rules shall be conspicuously posted up at the entrance gate thereof, and any person who shall wilfully violate any of said rules or regulations shall be subject to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars to be recovered by complaint or indictment in any court having jurisdiction of such offenses.

SEC. 4. That the capital stock of said association shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each. That the affairs of said association shall be conducted by a board of directors, who shall elect from their number a presi-dent, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as may be necessary for a successful operation of said association. That the persons named in this act shall constitute the board of directors for one year from the date of the passage of this act, at the expira-tion of which time a board of directors of not less than five nor more than fifteen, may be elected by the stockholders of said association.

SEC. 5. That this act take effect from and after its passage, and continue in force fifty years. Approved April 18th, 1873.

CHAPTER XC.

An Act to incorporate the City of Lampasas, in the County of Lampasas.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the citizens of the city of Lampasas, in Lampasas county, be and they are hereby declared a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the Corporation of the city of Lampasas; and by that name shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and to hold and dispose of property, real, personal and mixed.