or other term of the same, or any other office of the corporation, until his accounts or liabilities with the corporation are liquidated and settled; and if any person is elected to office who is in any manner indebted to the corporation, his said indebtedness shall be paid off before he is allowed to qualify; provided, that if any person should be allowed to qualify and enter upon the duties of any office while under any of the disabilities imposed in this section, that he may be restrained and enjoined from acting as such officer at the suit of any one or more citizens of the corporation.

SEC. 6. No officer of the corporation shall, directly or indirectly, take any contract of any character let by the city; and no member of the council shall purchase from or sell to the corporation any property of any kind, while acting as such officer.

SEC. 7. This act shall have the force and effect of a public act, and all the courts of the State shall take judicial notice of the same, and it may be used in all courts and places without being specially plead and without proof.

SEC. 8. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 17th, 1873.

CHAPTER VIII.

An Act for the Relief of Wm. J. Russell.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be and is hereby authorized and required to issue to Wm. J. Russell, one of the survivors of the Texas Revolution, a land certificate of twelve hundred and eighty acres, for his services one year in the army of Texas, during the years 1835 and 1836; and a further certificate of six hundred and forty acres for his participation in the campaign]' against Bexar in 1835.

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

Passed February 19th, 1873.

Mistake in enrolled bill.

[NOTE.-The foregoing act was presented to the Governor of Texas for his approval on the third day of March, 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 IX.

An Act to authorize the County of Marion to issue Interest-bearing. Bonds for the Building of a Court House and Jail in said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That J. T. Veal, J. Wilbourne Young and John B. Ligon, be and are hereby appointed commissioners and trustees of the county of Marion, in the State of Texas, to procure grounds in a suitable location. in the city of Jefferson, in the said county of Marion, upon which to erect a court house and jail for the use of said county, free of charge to said county. That said commissioners, or any two of them, may, after said grounds are secured, proceed as soon as practicable, to cause said buildings to be erected for the use aforesaid, and to pay for the same with the bonds of said county as hereinafter described; or to sell said bonds, and pay for said buildings out of the proceeds arising from the sale of said bonds, as to them may seem best.

SEC. 2. That when said grounds are selected by said commmissioners, and the sum ascertained to be necessary to pay for said buildings, said commissioners shall cause to be printed, or engraved, the bonds of said county, to become due and payable twenty years after the date thereof; to bear interest at the rate of eight per cent. per annum, from the date of said bonds, and to have coupons attached to each of said bonds for each year's interest thereon, to become payable to bearer on the first day of July of each year after the date of their issuance. The total amount of said bonds shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, and they shall be issued in sums not less than one hundred, nor more than one thousand dollars each; which said bonds, when so

printed or engraved as aforesaid, shall be signed by the presiding justice of the peace of said county, and countersigned by the clerk of the District Court of the said county, and attested by the seal of said court, and shall then be numbered and registered by the said clerk in the records of said county, and endorsed by any two of said commissioners, with a memorandum, as follows, viz: "This bond is issued by the county of Marion, in the State of Texas, to pay for building of a court house and jail for said county; which said endorsement shall be dated and signed by said commissioners, or any two of them, and without said endorsements said bonds shall be null and void. In case of the failure of any of the commissioners to accept this trust, or to act as such, any two of said commissioners may appoint a third one, by recording said appointment in the records of the District Court of said county; but if no two of them shall act as such, then the County Court shall appoint such number as may be required to fill the said commission.

SEC. 3. That when said bonds are signed, and before they are issued, the County or Police Court of said county shall levy, and thereafter cause to be collected, under the general laws of this State, a poll tax of fifty cents on each male citizen of said county over twenty-one years of age, and a tax on all the real and personal property of the said county, to raise a sum sufficient to pay the annual interest on said bonds, and a sinking fund of two per cent. to meet the principal thereof; which sum when so collected shall be used for no other purpose than that for which the same is collected. That said tax shall be annually thereafter levied and collected and appropriated as aforesaid. That in the month of June of each year said county or police court shall advertise, in a newspaper published in said county, that they will, on the first day of July of said year, be ready to pay off and take up the amount of said bonds which the funds on hand may meet; and if the holder or holders of any of said bonds shall present the same for payment in a sum sufficient to take up the funds on hand, said court shall purchase or pay off such an amount of the same as they may be able to do with the funds in their possession, collected and set apart for this purpose; and if none of said bonds are presented, the said court shall select, by drawing from the whole number of outstanding bonds, a num

ber of the same of an amount equal to the sum of money then on hand, and shall publish in said newspaper for one month that they are ready to pay off and take up the amount of bonds aforesaid, and shall designate the numbers of the bonds which have been drawn as aforesaid, and notify the holder or holders thereof to deliver the same for payment; and if the said bonds designated as aforesaid be not presented and paid off, they shall cease to bear interest forever thereafter.

SEC. 4. That when said bonds and coupons are paid off and taken up each year, they shall be canceled by the clerk of said court, by writing the word "canceled," and the date of said cancellation, legibly across the face of each, and signing his name officially thereto, attested by the signature of the county treasurer, and shall record said cancellation in the minutes of said county court, and shall file said bonds and coupons, canceled as aforesaid, among the archives of his office.

SEC. 5. That for the purposes of levying and collecting the taxes herein above named, all the laws of the State regulating the levy and collection of taxes shall apply, and be enforced for the levy and collection of this tax; and the officers authorized by law to levy and collect the State and county taxes shall be empowered and compelled to levy and collect the taxes herein provided for, and shall pay the same over to the county treasurer before the first day of July of each year. Said treasurer shall give bond, to be approved by said County or Police Court, with three or more sureties, in double the sum that may come to his hands each year, to secure the faithful disbursement of said money.

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SEC. 6. That the act entitled "An act to authorize the County Court of Marion county to issue coupon interestbearing bonds for building of a court house and jail for said county, and to levy a tax for the same, proved November 28th, 1871, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 22d, 1873.

CHAPTER X.

An Act to Incorporate the Town of Pine Hill, in Rusk County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the citizens of the town of Pine Hill, in Rusk county, be, and they are hereby declared a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of "The Town of Pine Hill;" 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; provided, such real property is situated within the limits of said corporation; and shall have a common seal to authenticate instruments of writing, when it shall be required.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the citizens of said corporation to elect a mayor, marshal and five aldermen. That the marshal shall be ex officio assessor and collector of taxes; that said aldermen shall elect from their own body a treasurer and secretary, and shall have power to appoint such other inferior officers or agents as they may deem necessary for said corporation. The treasurer and assessor and collector of taxes shall each be required to give bond, with security, to be approved by the mayor, for the faithful performance of their duties, and to make reports, when required by the board of aldermen. And the mayor shall have power to suppress riots and disturbances of the peace, to call out the citizens of said corporation for the purpose of restoring order, and to impose a fine, not to exceed twenty-five dollars, on any citizen of said corporation, for refusing to obey such call.

SEC. 3. That no person shall be eligible to any office under the provisions of this charter, who is not a qualified voter of this State, and shall have been a resident within the limits of said corporation for at least six months prior to his election; nor shall any person have a right to vote for officers, who has not been a citizen and resident within said corporate limits at least six months next preceding the day of said election.

SEC. 4. That the mayor and board of aldermen of said corporation shall have power to pass such rules and regulations and ordinances as may be necessary for the preservation of law and order within the corporate limits;