for and acquire the right of way, and such material as may be necessary for the construction of said bridge, in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas. And when said bridge shall be completed and in good condition for crossing, said Tate shall have the right to demand, collect and receive the following rates of toll, to wit: For each wagon with six horses or oxen, one dollar; for each wagon or other vehicle drawn by four horses or oxen, seventy-five cents; for each wagon or other vehicle drawn by two horses or oxen, fifty cents; for each wagon or other vehicle drawn by one horse or ox, twenty-five cents; for each person on horseback, ten cents; for each footman, five cents; for each loose horse and head of cattle, five cents; for each head of hogs or sheep, three cents. SEC. 4. That this act take effect from passage, and be in force twenty-five years. Approved June 4th, 1873. CHAPTER CCCXVII. An Act to authorize the County Court of Ellis County to have the Records of Deeds transcribed from the Counties of Robertson and Navarro Counties, and have same recorded in Ellis County. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the County Court of Ellis county are hereby authorized to have the records of deeds for land situate in the county of Ellis transcribed from the records of deeds in the counties of Robertson and Navarro, and to do this may employ some competent person or persons, paying them for such service a reasonable compensation; and said transcripts from such records, certified to be correct by the person or persons employed by the county court, shall have the same force and effect as the originals, and be entitled to be recorded on the records of deeds of Ellis county; for which service the County Court of Ellis county shall pay the district clerk the same fees as he is now entitled by law for the records of deeds, etc.; and which records shall have the same force and effect as the records of said original deeds. SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved June 4th, 1873. CHAPTER CCCXVIII. An Act to incorporate Tyler Chapter No. 24, Royal Arch Masons. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the officers and members of "Tyler Chapter No. 24, Royal Arch Masons," and their associates and successors, be and are by this act created a body politic and corporate by the above name and style; and as such shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded; buy, hold, sell and convey real and personal property; and adopt such rules, not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States, or the Constitution and laws of this State, or the requirements of the Grand Chapter of the State of Texas. SEC. 2. Said corporation shall have succession for twenty-five years; may have a common seal; and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved June 4th, 1873. CHAPTER CCCXIX. An Act for the relief of Benjamin C. Franklin, authorizing the Commismissioner of the General Land Office to issue duplicate Land Warrants for Bounty Warrants 2984, 2981, 2980, issued by the Secretary of War of the late Republic of Texas, and to issue patents on Certificate No. 395, issued by the Board of Land Commissioners on the twenty-first of June, 1838, and on Bounty Warrant No. 4456, issued by the Secretary of War of the late Republic of Texas, on the twentysixth of November, 1838. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the several bounty warrants and land certificate named in the caption of this act are hereby declared valid and subsisting claims for land in the State of Texas, and that the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to issue to Benjamin C. Franklin, as assignee, duplicates for bounty warrant No. 2984, issued by the Secretary of War to Edward S. Jones on the twenty-third day of April, 1838; also, for No. 2981, for three hundred and twenty (320) acres, issued to Volney Ostrander on the twenty-third April, 1838; also, for No. 2980, issued on the twenty third of April, 1838. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be and he is hereby authorized, on application of Benjamin C. Franklin, to annex to certificate No. 395, issued to David J. Mitchel by the Board of Land Commissioners of Montgomery county, for one (1) league of land, on the 21st of June, 1838, and bounty warrant 4456, issued by the Secretary of War, on the 26th of November, 1838, his certificate as Commissioner of the General Land Office that said certificate and bounty warrant is and are valid claims, and that patents will issue thereon to Benjamin C. Franklin, or his assigns, on the return of field notes according to law. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall notbe held or taken to deprive any party in whose right the certificate or warrant was originally issued, or any assignee thereof, if any such there be, of any right, legal or equitable, which they may have or hold to either of the bounty warrants named, or the certificate. That this act take effect from and after its passage. Approved June 4th, 1873. I, JAMES P. NEWCOMB, Secretary of State for the State of Texas, certify that the Acts contained in this volume are true copies (except the words in brackets, which were inserted to make sense), taken from the originals in the Department of State, with which they have been care fully compared; and I further certify that the first session of the Thirteenth Legislature of said State commenced at the city of Austin on Tuesday, the fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and adjourned sine die on Wednesday, the fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name, and have caused the seal of, the Department of State to be affixed, at the city of Austin, this [SEAL.] twenty-second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. JAMES P. NEWCOMB, INDEX. ACTON MASONIC INSTITUTE.. A. See Liquors. 205 authorizing him and Thos. M. Cain to construct toll bridge across AGEE, W. S., AIRHEART, O. M., 300 authorized to keep ferry boat at Spivey Crossing, on Trinity river.. 355 558 APPROPRIATIONS, See Counties. Bastrop county, reimbursing and appropriating $225 therefor...... 141 Bastrop county, reimbursing, supplemental to act.. Cunningham, J. R., $503 to pay claim of.. Wallace, W. W., $583 to pay claim of... ARTILLERY COMPANY, of Galveston (see Incorporations)..... 293 395 642 310 155 406 215 .233, 748 authorized to become stockholder in Water and Gas Company..... 748 |