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town of Corsicana, or those who may hereafter be elected, shall have authority to levy a tax on each and every ten pin alley in said corporation, not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum, which shall be collected as other taxes that may be levied by said Board of Aldermen. And no person shall keep a ten pin alley within said corporate limits of the town of Corsicana until he shall obtain a certificate from the Treasurer of said corporation that he has paid the taxes so levied by said Board, which said tax may be levied quarterly or annually as said Board may elect, and said Board of Aldermen shall have power to pass laws to enforce the provisions of this act.

SEC. 2. That any alley commonly called a ten pin alley is embraced within the provisions of this act, regardless of the number of pins that may be used on the same.

SEC. 3. That this act take effect from its passage.
Approved 21st January, 1860.

CHAPTER 47.

AN ACT to prevent the sale of vinous, spirituous or other intoxicating liquors, within one mile of the town of Starrville in Smith county, and the town of Knoxville in Cherokee county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That if any person or persons, or either, with or without a license from the County Court of Smith county, or Cherokee county, shall sell or offer for sale, or be anywise concerned in selling spirituous, vinous or other intoxicating liquors, within one mile of the public square in the town of Starrville in Smith county, or the town of Knoxville in Cherokee county, he, she or they, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace, shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for every such offence.

SEC. 2. That so much of an act entitled an act to prevent the sale of vinous, spirituous or other intoxicating liquors, within one mile of Jamestown and Starrville in Smith county, passed September 1st, 1856, as relates to the town of Starrville be, and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

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CHAPTER 48.

AN ACT to incorporate the Starrville Union Academy.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That Joshua Starr, R. T. McFarland, W. B. Butler, Howell Myreick, Lewis Stilwell, John Coleman and Robert Lyons, and their successors n office be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic for educational purposes by the name and style of the Starrville Union Academy, by which name they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and buy and sell property, real personal and mixed, for the purpose and object of maintaining an institution of learning in Starrville, in Smith county, Texas.

SEC. 2. That the management of said institution shall be vested in the above named and their successors as a Board of Trustees, and they shall elect one of their own number Chairman of the Board; they shall also elect one Treasurer and one Secre tary. The Chairman shall preside at the meetings of said Board, but in his absence a Chairman pro tem may be appointed by said Board. The Treasurer shall be elected for one year, he shall keep a fair record of all monies, notes and papers of value received and paid out by him, paying out the same by order of the Board of Trustees, signed by the President of the Board. He may at any time be removed for a dereliction of duty by a two-thirds vote of the Board of Trustees. The Secretary shall be elected for two years; he shall attend the meetings of the Board of Trustees, and shall keep a fair record of all of its proceedings and resolutions, and also of such by-laws and regulations as may be pa sed by said Board for the government of the school.

SEC. 3. No money shall be paid out of the Treasury except by the order of the Board of Trustees or a majority of them, signed by the Chairman of the Board. The said Board shall have power to employ or elect one President and as many Professors and Teachers in the Academy as the educational interest of the school may require, and they shall assign to all persons so employed their duties respectively, and their salaries. They shall have power to appropriate any money in the Treasury or any that may come into the Treasury by virtue of the school fund, to the payment of the salary of any person employed in the school. The said Board shall have power to enact such by-laws as they may deem necessary for the government of the school, provided the same be not in contravention of the Constitution or laws of this State. The said Board of Trustees shall

have power by a two-third vote of its members, to sell and dispose of any property of the said Academy, except the ground and buildings, books and apparatus occupied and used by the school; Provided, that the proceeds of all such sales shall be applied to advance the educational interest of the Academy.

SEC. 4. That the Faculty shall consist of the President, Professors and Teachers, and shall have power to enforce all laws adopted by the Board of Trustees for the government of the school, by such measures as may be considered reasonable, and shall have power to suspend any student who may knowingly violate the laws, which suspension shall last until the Board of Trustees can be convened, who conjointly with the Faculty shall have power to continue or remit the suspension, they shall also have power to expel disorderly students.

SEC. 5. That the Board of Trustees conjointly with the Faculty shall have power to confer such degrees in the arts and sciences upon any student of the Academy or person thought worthy, as are usually conferred by other Academies and Institutions of similar grade, and to grant certificates thereof signed by the Faculty and Trustees and sealed with the seal of said the Academy to authenticate and perpetuate their acts.

SEC. 6. That the Academy shall be competent to receive and hold contributions, gifts, donations and bequest of real and personal property of any kind, ant all donations snd bequests to said Academy shall be good and binding by the person making such donation or bequest, provided however that said Academy shall not hold property beyond the value of one hundred thousand dollars, the Academy buildings and lot of ground on which they stand excepted.

SEC. 7. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and continue in force for twenty years and no longer.

Approved 24th January, 1860.

CAAPTER 49.

AN ACT to be entitled an act to incorporate the Factors Cotton Press Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That George Ball, John Dean, Julius Kauffman, Wil

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liam J. Hutchins, John Shackelford, John Sealy, Joseph Brauns and J. H. Hutchings, their associates and successors be, and they are hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of Factors Cotton Press Company.

SEC. 2. The said persons, their associates and successors under the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, defending and being defended in all courts whatsoever, and may have a common seal and alter the same at pleasure.

SEC. 3. That said persons, their associates and successors, under the corporate name aforesaid, shall have the right to purchase, own and hold real and personal estate in the city and county of Galveston, for the purpose of engaging in and carrying on the business of compressing and storing cotton and manufacturing cotton rope, and such other manufactures as said corporation may desire to carry on. The capital stock not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of such amount, and to be voted upon in such manner as said Company may determine by their by-laws.

SEC. 4. Said persons and their associates may at any time within one year from the passage of this act, organize said corporation by electing out of their number a President, Secretary and Board of Directors, to hold their offices until other officers are appointed under the by-laws of said corporation.

SEC. 5. Said corporation may enact or pass such by-laws and rules for the management of their affairs as are consistent with the Constitution and Laws of the State. And this charter shall continue in force twenty years and no longer.

SEC. 6. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved 25th January, 1860.

CHAPTER 50.

AN ACT to amend the first, fifth, seven h, thirteenth and seventeenth sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Houston, Trinity and Tyler Railroad Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of

Texas, That the first section of the above entitled act is hereby amended so that the same shall hereafter read as follows:

"That a corporation and body politic be, and the same is hereby created to consist of the President, Directors and Stockholders of an association to be styled the Houston, Trinity and Tyler Railroad Company, and William J. Hutchings, T. W. House, C. Ennis, A. Groosbeck, Alexander McGowan, William H. King, Henry Watkins, S. R. Smith, B. T. Selman, B. L. Goodman, Asa Holt, Elam Swan, Thomas Smith, Bede John-son, Peter J. Willis, William M. Taylor, A. E. McClure, B. J. Terry, John Speak, Daniel Cole, J. C. Kuhn, E. B. Nichols, Julius Kaufman, A. F. James, J. C. Smith, George Ball, Robert Mills, James Sorley, J. S. Collard, A. U. Wright, and W. H. Hart, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to organize said Company, and said Company shall have power in their corporate capacity under the name and style of the Houston, Trinity and Tyler Railroad Company, to have succession and a common seal, to make contracts, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to grant and receive, to make by-laws, and generally to do and perform all such acts and things proper and necessary to be done, to carry into effect the objects and consummate the ends of this Incorporation, and the maintenance of the rights accruing under or connected with it, if not inconsistent with the laws of this State."

SEC. 2. That the fifth section of said act is hereby amended so that the same shall hereafter read as follows:

"That the Commissioners named in the first section of this act, or a majority of them shall so soon as convenient, cause books to be opened for subscription to the capital stock of said Company, in the towns of Galveston, Houston, Montgomery, Huntsville, Crockett and Tyler, which books shall be kept open for such time as said Commissioners may direct, and until two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the capital stock may be subscribed. Due notice shall be given of the opening of said books by the Commissioners by publication in two or more newspapers published in the vicinity of the line of said road, and when said two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the capital stock may be subscribed, the Commissioners shall cause a meeting of the subscribers to organize said Company as hereinafter directed. And any agreement in writing by which any person shall become a subscriber to the capital stock of said Company may be enforced against him according to its terms, and if any person fails to pay the amount due by him to said Company for shares in said capital stock, according to the terms of his sub

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