Laws Passed by the Eighth Congress of the Republic of Texas. Page: 23
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all Bonds, Obligations, or recognizances, hereafter made pay,
able to this, Republic, or the President of the same, or any
of the Counties, shall be held and deemed as payable and
recoverable, in gold or silver only; and all fines hereafter assessed
or incurred, shall be paid in Gold, Silver or Exchequer
Bills, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, and that this
act shall take effect'from and after its passage,
Approved January 17ib, 1844.
AN ACT
To authorize Administrators, Executors, or Guardians to
purchase property, for the collection of debts in certain cases.SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repfresentatives
of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That
in any case where an Executor, Administrator, or Guardian
is Plaintiff in Execution, under which an appraisement is necessary,
before a sale can be made, it shall be lawful for said
Plaintiffupon the written decree of the Probate Judge, authorizing
the same to purchase the property which may be
levied on by execution, either at the first, or any subsequent
offering, provided, that no bid shall have been made by any
other persorb sufficiently high to make a sale under the former
existing laws, and the property thus purchased shall be
considered as a part of the mass of the Estate which he represents,
and may be disposed of as in other cases, and this
act shall take effect from its passage.
Passed January 18th, 1844.
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