Laws Passed by the Eighth Congress of the Republic of Texas. Page: 67
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67
AN ACT
To repeal, in part, and amend " An Act regulating'the Duties
of Probate Courts and the settlement of Successions,"
passed at the fourth Congress and approved February 5th
1840.
SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That
so much of the fourteenth section of the above-recited act, as
authorizes persons who shall be appointed to make partition,
or a majority of them, " to call in one or more surveyors to
run the lines of any lands, and also the divisional lines thereof,"
be and the same is, hereby, repealed.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the persons who shall
be appointed to make the partition contemplated in said act,
be, and they are hereby, authorized to call in the county sur
veyor, or his legal deputy, to run the lines &c., contemplated
in said act, for which services the said surveyor shall receive
the same pay as now allowed by law.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved, February 2d, 1844.
AN ACT
To protect the Property of Texian Prisoners of War.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Seizate and House of Representatives
of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That,.
from and after the passage of this act, no forced sale shall be
made of any property belonging to any citizen of Texas, who
is or may be a prisoner of war, until release or death of said
prisoner, or in the event of his death,. administration uponhis
estate.
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