Laws Passed by the Eighth Congress of the Republic of Texas. Page: 64
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. OINT RESOLUTION
Moving the Custom-house of the District ot: Calhoun from
Port Calhoun to Port Caballo.
SECT rON 1. Be .it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That
the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and required, to
have mvoed the Custom-house, and such other public building
or buildings of ihe Port of Calhoun, the present location,
to Port Caballo: provided, the proprietors of Port Caballo lonate
to the Government, a suitable lot or lots in said town, for
the erection of the public builings.
SEC. 2. Be it further resolved, That the Collector of said
District of Calhoun, shall keep his office, and perform the
duties thereof, at Port Caballo.
SEC. 3. Be it further resolved, That so much of an act entitled
" An Act to discontinue and abolish certain Ports of
Entry, and to establish, instead thereoft a Port of Entry, to
be called Port Calnoun," approved January twenty-first, one
thousand .eight hundred and fbrty-one, as requires the Custom-house
for the said District to be located at Port Calhoun
be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and this joint resolution
take effect from and after its passage..
Approved February. 2d, 1844.
JOINT RESOLUTION
For the relief of Midshipman, Andrew Jackson Bryant..
SECTION 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and Huuse of Repre
s.ntatives of the Repu1blic of Texas in Congress assembled, That
Andrew 3 ackson Bryant, on account of having been severely
wounded on board of the sloop of War Austin, in an action
with the] Mexican steamers Guadalupe and Montezuma, bff
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