plete the court house now in process of erection in the city of Dallas, be and is hereby authorized to issue interest-bearing coupon bonds of the county, payable in twenty years, in the whole not to exceed forty thousand dollars; said bonds to be issued respectively for any amount, from one hundred dollars, in even hundreds, up to one thousand dollars; they shall bear an annual interest of ten per centum, which shall be payable semi-annually, either in the city of Dallas, Galveston, or New York, as said County Court may in said bonds respectively elect and designate.

SEC. 2. That before placing any of said bonds on the market for sale, they shall be signed first by the presiding justice, and countersigned by the district clerk of Dallas county, with the seal of the district court impressed thereon, and by said presiding justice forwarded to the Comptroller of the State to be countersigned by him, with a certificate from him setting forth the amount of taxable property in Dallas county, according to the returns in his office, the total indebtedness of the county as certified to him by the presiding justice and district clerk thereof, and the whole amount of bonds issued under this act. The semi-annual ten per cent. coupons shall be attached to each of said bonds.

SEC. 3. That to meet the interest on said bonds and create a sinking fund for the final redemption of the principal, said County Court of Dallas county be and is hereby authorized to have levied and collected annually a tax on the taxable property within the county of not exceeding one-fifth of one per cent.; provided, that the levy for each succeeding year shall be no more, according to the assessment of the then preceding year, than may be necessary to meet the current interest for the year, and set apart a sinking fund which at the maturity of the bonds shall be sufficient to pay the whole of the principal.

SEC. 4. That the amounts annually collected as a sinking fund may be invested from time to time) by the county court in any manner deemed advisable by the county court; provided, the same be secured by mortgages or legal liens on real estate within the city or county of Dallas.

SEC. 5. That after the sale of said bonds, this act shall be irrepealable until the whole of said bonds shall be redeemed and paid off according to their face; provided,

that the county court may at any earlier time redeem any or all of said bonds, with the consent of the holder or holders thereof, but not otherwise.

SEC. 6. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 29th, 1873.

CHAPTER XLVII.

An Act to authorize the County Court of Goliad County to levy and collect a Special Tax for the purpose of Building a Court House.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the County Court of Goliad county be and they are hereby authorized to levy and collect a special tax upon all the taxable property of said county, not to exceed one dollar upon the hundred dollars of valuation, for the purpose of building a court house in said county.

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

Approved March 29th, 1873.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

An Act Supplementary and Amendatory to an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Galveston Medical College Hospital," approved May 31, 1871.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the name and style of this corporation shall be "Texas Medical College and Hospital," and located at the city of Galveston.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That Ashbel Smith,. M. D., J. M. Haden, M. D., W. S. Rogers, M. D., J. C. Massie, M. D., J. T. Heard, M. D., Greenville Dowell, M. D., J. M. Callaway, M. D., of Galveston county; R. Flewellen, M. D., of Washington county; R. A. Watkins, M. D., of Navarro county; J. H. Webb, M. D., of Brazos county; W. A. East, M. D., of Travis

county; Geo. W. Cupples, M. D., of Bexar county; A. N. Denton, M. D., also of Bexar county; B. S. Shelburn, M. D., of Collin county; M. D. K. Taylor, M. D., of Marion county; W. H. Pyle, M. D., of Kaufman county; J. D. Rankin, M. D., of Limestone county; H. C. Ghent, M. D., of Port Sullivan; J. A. Allen, M. D., of Navarro county; Leonidas Hudspeth, M. D. of Harris county: D. H. Stuart, M. D., of Harris county; R. H. Wallace, M, D., of Waco; Ú. G. M. Walker, M. D., of Cherokee county; Sampson Eagan, M. D., and W. S. Rayfield, M. D., of Jefferson, Texas; and W. J. Goodman, of Tyler, Texas; the mayor and attorney of the city of Galveston, and the presiding justice of Galveston county, ex officio be and they are hereby created a board of trustees for the Texas Medical College and Hospital; and that they shall have succession, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts whatever; and by said corporate name and style, shall be capable in law of contracting and being contracted with, and have all the powers of acquiring, by purchase, donation or otherwise, property, both real and personal, for the purpose of establishing, in the city of Galveston, Galveston county, a medical college and hospital.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Trustees of Texas Medical College and Hospital shall, at their first meeting, proceed to elect from their number a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, and shall have full power and authority to fill all vacancies by death, resignation or otherwise; provided, that no one shall be eligible as trustee who is not a graduate of some medical college, except those held by ex officio. That they shall establish a board of examiners, composed of seven members, who shall proceed to examine all the present professors in the Galveston Medical College who will and can stand an acceptable examination on the various branches usually taught in medical schools according to the system of concours; i. e., by written, oral and declamation; and if a majority of said board report favorable, they shall take their respective chairs; and all chairs or offices made vacant by death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled according to the same regulation; provided, that any one, a graduate in a regular medical school, shall have the right to apply for a professorship; and provided further, notice shall be given in

two public newspapers, for at least two months, of such vacancy, and that the same will be filled by the system of concours, or competition examination; and a majority of the board shall determine the choice.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the board of trustees shall have full power to make such by-laws, rules and regulations, &c., as they may think best for their own government and the control of "Texas Medical College and Hospital;" may elect their successors in office every two years from among their own number; may have and use a common seal; and that said board of trustees are hereby invested with power and authority, in conjunction with the faculty of Texas Medical College, to grant diplomas; and are hereby empowered and authorized to confer degrees of doctor of medicine, adeundem, honorary, and such degrees as are conferred by medical colleges in high standing, upon such persons as the faculty of Texas Medical College shall deem meritorious.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That seven members, including the president and secretary, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, except the election of officers and professors, when there must be a majority of all the trustees present to constitute, a quorum.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the board of trustees shall, when sufficient funds shall have been raised, build wards for the treatment of persons disabled by disease, or otherwise, male or female, children or adults, and to rent or lease premises until such can be purchased or built.

SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That said board shall erect suitable buildings for clinical teaching, and rooms for general and didactic lectures on all the medical sciences; purchase a library, instruments and apparatus; establish a museum, and other things necessary for the treatment and care of all the sick, and the teaching of students in "medicine" and "surgery," "pharmacy," "chemistry," "botany," "meteorology," etc., etc., under such rules as they may enact; provided, that said faculty shall have the right to regulate the hours, time and number of the lectures, and the surgical and medical management and direction of said hospital. It is further provided that no session shall be less than four months, of six lectures each day; and that the faculty of "medi

cine and surgery" shall have at least seven professors, viz: "Theory and practice of medicine," principles and practice of surgery," "obstetrics, and diseases of

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women and children,' "materia medica and therapeutics," "anatomy, "physiology" and "chemistry;" that the school of " "pharmacy shall consist of the chairs of chemistry," "materia medica" and "therapeutics;" that no diploma shall be issued with less than the names of seven professors signed to the same; and all students shall have the right to attend one or more of the professor's lectures, and upon satisfactory examination, shall be given a certificate of merit or proficiency of the same.

SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the said board shall have power to purchase real estate in or out of the city of Galveston, and erect thereon a "pest house," an 'insane asylum," for the treatment of infectious or contagious diseases, such as "small pox," "cholera,” “yellow fever," etc.; the restraint of insane persons who are dangerous and unruly, and require confinement and restraint.

SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That the trustees of said college and hospital, shall, upon application of the County Court of any county in the State of Texas, admit any indigent person, being diseased or disabled, as a patient in said hospital; provided, that the charges of such indigent persons shall not exceed the sum of one dollar ($1,00) per day, for each day such patient may be treated in said hospital; and the further sum of ten dollars ($10.00) for each of such patients as may die in said hospital and be buried at its expense; and the same shall be paid by the county sending such patient, upon the proper vouchers being presented to the presiding justice of such county.

SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That said board of trustees shall receive and treat in said hospital, also, pa- tients or persons who may be able to pay their own expenses; also, patients from any society, club or association, under such stipulations as may be agreed upon by the persons, club, society or association sending such patient, and the trustees of said hospital.

SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That the mayor of Galveston city and presiding justice of Galveston county, and their successors in office, shall have the power and