publication of the same, shall be paid out of the appropriation for printing.

SEC. 10. The rates of public printing, provided for in this act, shall be as follows, until changed by law, viz:

1. For printing the laws of a general and special nature, including the index, one-fourth of a cent per page.

2. For printing one thousand copies of the journals of each house, one-third of a cent per page.

3. For printing eight hundred copies of the Governor's message, reports or other documents provided by law, or ordered by the Legislature, or either house thereof, one-third of a cent per page.

4. Bills and resolutions shall be printed on foolscap paper, in pica type, leaded with pica slugs or reglets, to be twenty ems pica in width, and sixty-five in length, and printed broad-side, the lines and sections to be numbered. Two hundred copies shall be printed, one hundred and fifty to be furnished to the House, and fifty to the Senate. For the two hundred copies, three dollars and fifty cents per page shall be paid, and for each additional one hundred copies, two dollars and fifty cents per page.

5. For all rule and figure work contained in any description of work performed by the State Printer, he shall be allowed double the rate of composition, in addition to the charges herein specified, and the State Printer shall embrace such charges in separate items in his accounts rendered to the proper auditing officer.

6. For all laws of a general or special nature, joi...t resolutions, proclamations of the Governor, or other public documents, one dollar per square of ten lines nonpareil.

SEC. 11. The work prescribed, and the compensation provided to be paid therefor by this act, shall apply to the State Printer already elected by the Legislature.

SEC. 12. In addition to the other duties herein imposed upon the State Printer, he shall be required to publish in his official journal all judicial advertisements required by law to be published in the judicial district wherein said official journal is situated, including sheriffs' and constables' sales, notices of elections, succession notices, and all proceedings and orders of any court that may be orderd published in said judicial district; and all such publication or advertisement shall be utterly null and void unless so published in the official journal. It shall be the duty of the State Printer, upon the payment of the printer's fee, to file in the clerk's office of the court having jurisdiction, his affidavit, with a copy of any judicial advertisement ordered by said court to be published, appended, together with his receipt for the payment of the printing fees, paid by the party at whose instance or for whose benefit such advertise

ment shall have been made, to be collected as other costs, which affidavit shall give the dates of the paper in which the advertisement appeared, and be filed and recorded by the clerk, as the legal evidence of the publication of the same, to be read, or a certified copy thereof, in all the courts of law or equity, and no other evidence of such publication shall be required or allowed.

SEC. 13. That the Governor be, and he is hereby empowered to designate certain journals to perform and publish the county and judiciary printing and advertising of the judicial districts, respectively, in which such journals may be published. In case no paper is published in any judicial district in this State, such publication may be authorized to be made in a paper published nearest thereto. Each paper so selected shall be the official journal of the judicial district wherein it shall be published; and all county and judicial printing and advertising for, or in said judicial district, shall be done by and published in said journal; and after such selection, and notice thereof to the district judge, district clerks, sheriffs and justices of the peace in said judicial districts, every advertisement and publication in any other paper than the one so selected shall, during the term of such selection, be null and void for any legal purpose. All printing and advertising authorized to be done by this act, whether State, judicial, or otherwise, shall be paid for at the rate authorized by item six, section ten of this act.

SEC. 14. That before any public or private sale, under order of any court, shall be had, due notice of such sale, with a full account or description of the property to be sold, shall be published in the legal advertising medium of the judicial district in which such property shall be sold, for a period of four weeks, one insertion each week, immediately preceding such sale; and any officer selling property of any kind whatever without advertising the same as required by this section, shall be responsible for all damages that any party may sustain.

SEC. 15. That whenever it shall be established before any court of competent jurisdiction that the provisions of section fourteen of this act have not been complied with, the party or parties purchasing the property not properly advertised, shall forfeit the amount paid for such property, and such property shall revert to its former position as when no sale had been made.

SEC. 16. That where property is sold under the provisions of this act, the officer selling the same shall pay the expenses of advertising out of any of the cash proceeds of said sale; in case there be none, the newspaper so advertising shall, under the provisions of this section, hold a first mortgage on said property until said advertising shall be paid.

SEC. 17. That all railroads in this State shall advertise in the legal advertising mediums of every judicial district through which they pass, a correct schedule of the hours of arrival and departure of all regular trains, and all rates of passage and freights.

SEC. 18. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved August 13, 1870.

CHAPTER LV.

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT AUTHORIZING QUARANTINE ON THE COAST OF TEXAS AND ELSEWHERE WITHIN THE

STATE," APPROVED JUNE 10, 1870.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That section four of an act entitled "An act authorizing Quarantine on the coast of Texas and elsewhere within the State,' approved June 10, 1870, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to-wit:

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That any vessel arriving at any of the quarantine stations, designated by the authorities aforesaid, from an infected port, without a clean bill of health from the proper officer of said port, shall be taken possession of by the health officer at the station at which said vessel arrives, and the master thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, and the said vessel shall be held by the health officer until said fine and cost are paid, or said vessel replevied; provided, that the payment of the fine, which may be assessed against the master of said vessel, shall not operate as a release or discharge of the vessel from quarantine, but the same rule shall apply and shall be observed as in cases of other vessels; and in order to the speedy trial and adjudication of all cases, arising under the fourth and sixth sections of this act, the mayor of each town or city shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the District Court of this State.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That section five of the aforesaid act be and the same is hereby so amended as to read as follows, to-wit:

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That each and every master of

a vessel that passes, or attempts to pass, said quarantine station, without first having permission from the health officer so to do, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof before the District Court of this State, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for any term not less than one year nor more than five years, or fined in any sum not less than five hundred nor more than ten thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That section six of the aforesaid act be so amended as to read as follows, to-wit:

SEC. 6. Any person belonging to a vessel, when placed under quarantine, who shall go ashore without the written permission of the health officer at that station, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every offense; and any master or officer of said vessel, or other person, who shall land, or permit to be landed, any goods, wares or merchandise whatever, from said vessel, while under quarantine, without the written permission of the health officer aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in . any sum not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, for each and every article of goods, wares or merchandise so landed.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That section seven of the aforesaid act be so amended as to read as follows, to-wit:

SEC. 7. There shall be collected by the examining health officer, from every vessel arriving at each and every quarantine station, the following fees, to-wit: for every vessel of one hundred tons burthen or under, the sum of five dollars; for every vessel over one hundred tons burthen, the sum of five dollars, and also a further fee of one and one-half cent for each and every ton. The aforesaid fees, collected as aforesaid, shall be reported to the corporate authorities of the town or city at which said quarantine is established, and all fees and fines, as herein before provided for, shall be used to defray the expenses of keeping said quarantine.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That section eight of the aforesaid act be so amended as to read as follows, to-wit:

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the town or city authorities aforesaid, as soon as the quarantine ceases to exist, to make a succinct statement of receipts and expenditures, and forward the same to the Comptroller of the State; and should the expenditures amount to a greater sum than the receipts, they shall draw from the Treasury of the State, upon an order from the Comptroller, the excess of such expenditures over the receipts as in other cases made and provided; and should the receipts exceed the expenditures, the aforesaid town or city authorities are hereby authorized and empowered to ap

propriate and use such excess for the maintenance of marine hospitals in their respective towns or cities; provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent any town or city in the State from establishing any quarantine which they may think necessary for the preservation of the health of said town or city, not inapplicable to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed; and that this act be in force and take effect from and after its passage. Approved August 13, 1870.

CHAPTER LVI.

AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN OFFICIAL ACTS OF COUNTY JUDGES.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That every grant, deed, mortgage, deed of trust, power of attorney or other instruments required or permitted by law to be registered, that shall have been heretofore acknowledged by the grantor or grantors, maker or makers, before any county judge of any county in this State, or proven before such officer, by one or more of the subscribing witnesses, and certified by such officer, be held to have been duly acknowledged or proved, with the full effects and consequences of existing laws.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That every such instrument required or permitted by law to be registered, which shall have been acknowledged or proven before such county judge, and which shall have been heretofore registered, shall be held to have been duly registered; and all depositions taken before a county judge shall be as valid as if taken before an officer authorized to take depositions. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved August 13, 1870.