business operations to the Comptroller of the State, showing the amount of capital invested, the number of laborers employed, the amount of raw material manufactured, the quantity and quality of goods produced, the nett profits or loss of said establishment, and where said goods are disposed of or consumed, whether in or out of the State, with such other statistical information in relation thereto ás his experience and observation may enable him to furnish.

SEC. 10. Each subscriber who may invest capital in the stock of said "Washington County Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company," and a holder of the same, shall at all times receive the dividend, when declared, if any, upon said stock; but should the Directors or stockholders, deem it the true interest of the Company to invest the profits or dividends in extending their manufacturing operations, instead of distributing them among the stockholders, their action in the premises shall be binding upon the minority, and should any stockholders, at any time, be displeased or wish to withdraw from said Company, or dispose of his interest, or require a distribution of dividends, or otherwise impede the progress and operations of the Company, he or she shall not be permitted to institute legal proceedings against said Company, to adjust his individual rights, or in any wise to impede the progress of said Company, unless sanctioned by a majority of the stockholders in the same, but is permitted and required to dispose of his interest in the market, at such price as such stock may command, and he or she so selling shall henceforth be exonerated from any loss of said Company may sustain, or debarred from any future profits said stock may realize; a majority of the stockholders being required, at all times, to agree upon a dissolution of the Company, and a distribution and sale of the property and effects of said Company, before the same can be acted upon.

SEC. 11. Each shareholder in the capital stock of this Company is hereby made liable to the Company for the amount so subscribed for by him or her, and due said Company, to be collected in accordance with the seventh section of this act: Provided, that no stock or share holder shall be responsible or liable for any other debts or contracts, made and entered into by the President or agent of said Company, not within the legiti mate and bona fide business operations of said Company, but shall be liable in proportion to the amount of his or her stock, only for the bona fide debts of s id Company, in prosecuting the works and carrying into effect the true interest and intention of the Company, in accordance with the provisions of this act, and

said liabilities shall be assessed, adjudged and collected in the event of failure, dissolution or loss, pro rata, upon each stockholder, in proportion to the amount of stock subscribed for and paid upon by him or her, and the stock book of said Company shall be the criterion by which the liability of each stockholder is to be arrived at.

SEC. 12. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved 31st January, 1860.

CHAPTER 65.

AN ACT to legalize the marriage of William Davis and Sarah James.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the bonds of matrimony heretofore solemnized between William Davis and Sarah James, of McKinney, in the county of Collin and State of Texas, be and the same are hereby legalized, and the rights, privileges and capacities of the said William Davis and Sarah James (now Sarah Davis) as husband and wife, be and remain the same as if they had been lawfully entitled to contract marriage at the time of the solemnization thereof between them.

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

Approved Feb. 2, 1860.

CHAPTER 66.

AN ACT to legalize the marriage of C. B. Wood and Mary E. Wood, formerly Mary E. Terry.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the marriage between Calvin B. Wood and Mary E. Terry, which was solemnized on the 6th day of October, 1857, in the county of Trinity, be and is hereby declared to be legal

and valid to all intents and purposes, and that this act take effect from and after its passage. Approved Feb. 2, 1860.

CHAPTER 67.

AN ACT to legalize the marriage of William H. and Margarett Slain, residents of the county of Bosque.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the marriage between William H. Slain and Margarett Slain, residents of Bosque county, be made legal, and that it have the same effect as though there had existed no legal impediments to said marriage when solemnized, and that this act take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved Feb. 2, 1860.

CHAPTER 68.

AN ACT for the relief of H. C. Davis.

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 H. C. Davis an unconditional headright certificate for six hundred and forty acres of land upon his conditional certificate, No. 133, issued by the Board of Land Commissioners for Bexar county: Provided, that the said Davis has not received any land under said conditional certificate.

SEC. 12. That this act take effect from and after its pas

CHAPTER 69.

AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Turner

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 a certificate for three hundred and twenty acres of land to Joseph Turner as a colonist of Peter's Colony, to be located, surveyed and patented as other colonists' claims: Provided the said Turner pays the usual fees in such cases made and provided, and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved Feb. 2, 1860.

CHAPTER 70.

AN ACT for the relief of John Hearn.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby authorized and required to issue a warrant upon the Treasurer, requiring him to pay to John Hearn twenty-five 50-000 dollars out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, that said John Hearn shall first file with the Treasurer,a full receipt of all claims against the State of Texas, arising from the custody and safe keeping of Robert C. Webb, a fugitive from justice from Louisiana, in the jail of Bastrop county.

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

Approved Feb. 2, 1860.

CHAPTER 71.

AN ACT for the relief of Louis Bouillet aad Hetty O. Kohl

man.

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 Louis Bouillet, an augmentation headright certificate of three hundred and twenty acres of land; and to Hetty O. Kohlman a headright certificate for six hundred and forty acres of land, upon payment of the usual fees in such cases; which certificates when issued, may be located, surveyed and patented as other certificates of like character: Provided said parties have not heretofore received the lands to which they are entitled.

SEC. 7. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Aproved Feb. 2, 1860.

CHAPTER 72.

AN ACT for the protection of game on Galveston Island. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That it shall not be lawful to hurt or kill quail or partridge on the island of Galveston, within two years from the passage of this act, and that, thereafter, it shall not be lawful to hurt or kill quail or partridge on said island between the first day of March and the first day of September.

SEC. 2. That any person who shall be guilty of a violation of this act, shall be fined ten dollars for every such offence; and that the killing of every quail or partridge in violation of this act, shall be held a separate offence.

SEC. 3. That all fines inflicted, for any violation of this act, shall accrue to the benefit of the county of Galveston, and that all prosecutions, for violation of this act, shall be commenced within sixty days after the commission of the offence, and not thereafter.

SEC. 4. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved Feb. 2, 1860.

CHAPTER 73.

AN ACT to validate the county seal of Young county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of