United States are located, and shall not be driven or shipped across the Rio Grande river at any other point or points; provided, that this section shall not be construed to apply to people traveling to and from this State, or to any other business or traffic than that in live stock.

SEC. 21. All animals intended to be driven or shipped to the Republic of Mexico, or to be shipped from any of the ports of Texas included within the counties not excepted from the operation" of this act, shall be inspected by the inspector of hides and animals at the point of shipment or place where such animals are to be driven across the boundaries of the State before the shipment from or passage across the boundaries of the State as aforesaid of said animals, and said inspectors shall be entitled to charge and collect for the service herein prescribed the sum of two and a half cents for each hide and animal inspected; and the same shall be recoverable as provided in section seven of this act. It shall be the duty of each inspector performing the duties prescribed in this section to keep a complete and correct record of each herd of animals inspected by him, which record shall show the name or names of the owner or owners of the herd, the name of the person in charge of the herd, the county or counties in which such person or persons reside, the date of inspection, the number of each kind of animals, together with the marks and brands upon the same, the name or names of the vendor or vendors of said animals, as shown by the bill or bills of sale, and also the date when and place where such bill or bills of sale were given; and the records so kept shall be subject at all times to the inspection of any person desiring to examine them, or copy any portion thereof. Any inspector of hides and animals violating any of the provisions of this act shall be proceeded against, and, upon conviction, punished therefor as provided in section six of this act.

SEC. 22. Any person or persons who shall purchase any cattle for the purpose of driving the same beyond the limits of this State to market across the northern or northeastern boundaries of the State shall, before removing such cattle from the county or counties where the same are gathered, place on each and every animal which be shall so purchase for driving, a large and plain road mark, composed of any mark or device he may choose, which mark shall be branded on the left side of the back, behind the shoulder; and every person failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be punished as provided for in section eight of this act.

SEC. 23. Any person or persons who have shipped or attempted to ship animals from this State, or driven or attempted to drive animals beyond the limits of this State, contrary to the provisions

of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars for each animal so taken, driven or shipped, and blely imprisoned in the common jail for a period not to exceed one year; said suit may be prosecuted in any court in this State having jurisdiction of the same; provided, that hides and animals imported into this State from Mexicó may be shipped from any port of Texas upon the certificate of the collector or inspector of United States customs, at the port where said hides er animals were imported, or upon the certificate of any justice of the peace of the county into which said hides or animals were imported, certifying the date of the importation of such hides or animals, the name of the importer thereof, the name of the owner or person in charge of said hides or animals, and the name of the place where the same were imported, together with the number of hides or animals so imported, and a description of the marks and brands (if any there be) by which the same might be identified. Officers of the United States customs, justices of the peace and inspectors of hides [and] animals shall be allowed the same fees for the services which they are authorized to perform by the terms of this proviso as are allowed to inspectors of hides and animals by the twentysecond section of this act.

SEC. 24. All the provisions of this act shall apply to and be enforced in all the counties lying west of the Colorado river and south of the Red Fork of said river, and in the counties of Colorado, Fayette and Bastrop; provided, that this act shall not be so construed as to authorize or require the inspection of hides in any other county than that in which the animals from which the hides were taken were slaughtered.

SEC. 25. That so much of this act as relates to the inspection of live stock shall be enforced in the counties of Wichita, Wilbarger, Hardeman, Knox, Baylor, Haskell, Throckmorton. Collin, Dallas, Tarrant, Parker, Palo Pinto, Buchanan, Shackleford, Jones, Taylor, Callahan, Runnels, Eastland, Erath, Hood, Johnson, Bosque, Coleman, Milam, Falls, Limestone, Navarro, Leon and Robertson, also the counties of Galveston and Harris, where jurisdiction of inspectors shall be confined to the stock of the counties last named and the hides of animals slaughtered in the same; and so much of this act as relates to the inspection and sale of hides, shall not apply to any of the counties mentioned in this section.

SEC. 26. That all laws and parts of laws (except those providing for criminal prosecution) conflicting with the provisions of this aet, be and the same are hereby repealed; and that this act shall take effect and continue in force from and after the period of forty days after its passage; and provided, that none of the provisions of

this act shall apply to or be enforced in any county in this State except those specified in this and the preceding sections of this aet. Approved May 22, 1871.

CHAPTER CX.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY COURT OF HARRIS COUNTY TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUNDING THE INDEBTEDNESS OF SAID COUNTY, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR PAYMENT.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the county court of Harris county is authorized to issue, from time to time, interest bearing and coupon bonds for such sums, and in such amounts, and payable at such times as said court may see fit provided, that the bonds hereby authorized shall be issued only for the purpose of funding the present outstanding indebtedness of said county, of every character whatsoever, due and to be due; and when such bonds are issued said court shall, at the time of ordering such issue, also provide for the payment of the interest on said bonds, and a sinking fund to meet the principal under the laws now in force.

SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved May 22, 1871.

CHAPTER CXI.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND REQUIRING THE COUNTY TAX FOR THE YEARS 1870 AND 1871, COLLECTED BY OTHER COUNTIES FROM PERSONS AND UPON PROPERTY SITUATED IN SAN JACINTO COUNTY, TO BE PAID TO SAN JACINTO COUNTY.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Teras, That the county tax for the years 1870 and 1871, collected by other counties from persons and property situated in San Jacinto county, be and the same is hereby authorized and required to be paid to the county of San Jacinto.

SEC. 2. That the treasurer of the county of San Jacinto be and he is hereby authorized and required to receive and receipt for said

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SEC. 3. That this act take effect and be in force from and after passage.

Approved May 22, 1871.

CHAPTER CXII.

AN ACT TO ORGANIZE THE COUNTY OF FRIO.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the county of Frio be organized with the following limits: Commencing at the southeast corner of Medina county; thence south with the western boundary line of Atascosa county, to the northwest corner of McMullen county; thence west with the northern boundary line of La Salle county, to the northeast corner of Dimmit county; thence north with the eastern boundary line of Zavala county, to the southeast corner of Uvalde county; thence east with the southern boundary line of Medina county, to the place of beginning and all the territory within the said limits shall constitute the county of Frio.

SEC. 2. That the county seat of Frio county shall be located, until otherwise crdered by a two-thirds vote of the qualified electors of said county, at the rancho known as the "William Eastwood Rancho," on the Frio river; said rancho situated on the Jinio Culler league and labor survey on the west bank of the said Frio river.

SEC. 3. That the county seat of Frio county shall be called "Frio."

SEC. 4. That John B. McMahan, Benjamin Sheidley and Harrison M. Daugherty are hereby appointed and constituted a board of commissioners, for the purpose of dividing the said county of Frio into five precincts; that said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the said William Eastwood Rancho, on the Frio river, on the second Monday in June, A. D. 1871, or within five days thereafter, and proceed at once to define the limits of five justices' precincts for said county of Frio, and shall then order an election for a justice of the peace for each precinct of said county. Said Commissioners shall give at least twenty days' notice of said election by causing notices thereof to be posted in three places in

each precinct of said county; said election shall be held at William Eastwood Raucho en the Frio river. It shall continue four days and shall be conducted in conformity with the laws regulating clections in this State; and for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, said board of commissioners are hereby invested. with all the powers conferred upon judges and commissioners of elections by the laws of this State; and said commissioners shall make return of said election to the Secretary of State within ten days after the close of said election.

SEC. 5. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved May 22, 1871.

CHAPTER CXIII.

AN ACT SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE STATE OF

TEXAS," APPROVED MAY 2, 1871.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Teras, That section 1 of said act shall be so amended as to read as follows: "That the Attorney General, Comptroller of Public Accounts and State Treasurer be and they are hereby constituted an auditorial board, of which the Attorney General shall be the President and legal adviser as to all matters coming before them; and it shall be their duty to examine all claims for money against the State, reported on by the board organized under the provisional act of November, 9, 1866, and the amount of indebtedness on account of the penitentiary, incurred under competent authority; and, further, shall audit and allow all other claims that may appear to them just and valid claims against the State and authorized by pre existing las, and not inconsistent with the Constitution of the State; and the amount of indebtedness on account of the penitentiary, if in specie, they shall estimate at its present value in currency; and where a bond or bonds have been issued to the holders of claims ascertained by the board herein created to be valid, it shall not be necessary to make provision for the payment of such claims in the manner hereinafter directed, but the board herein created shall, by its president, endorse on said bond or bonds that they are valid, and on presentation of such bond or bonds, or any interest coupons