Laws Passed by the Eighth Congress of the Republic of Texas. Page: 73
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other officers shall emanate from the State Department, and
be countersigned by the Secretary of State.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War and
Marine, tile Attorney-General and the Commissioner of the
General Land-Office, to keep exact registers of all officers,
whose commissions shall have been countersigned by them,
respectively, and to furnish, regularly, upon the issuing of any
commission, a memorandum of the same, together with the
(late of the resignation, death, removal, expiration of the term
of office &c. of the predecessor in office, (as the case may be)
to the Secretary of State, who shall cause to be kept in his
o)ice a full and complete register of all officers, commissioned
by the President.
SEC. 7. Be itfurther enacted, That the bonds of the clerks
ofthe District Courts shall be liled in the office of the AttorneyGeneral,
instead of the office of Secretary of State, as heretofore
required by law. The bonds of the county surveyors shall
be filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General
Land-Office, instead of the office of the Secretary of State, as
heretofore required by law; the bonds of post-masters shall
be filed in tile office of the Bureau of the General Post-Office,
as now required by law, and it shall be th'e duty of theChief
Clerk of the Post-Office Bureau to conform to the provisions
and directions specified in tie sixth section of this act. The
Secretary of State shall cause to be delivered to the AttorneyGeneral
and Commissioner of the General Land-Office, respectively,
such of the bonds of the clerks of the District
Courts, and county surveyors, as may be on file in his office.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That. it shall be the special
duty of the President to prescribe, in conformity with the
constitution and laws, the forms of all commissions; and no
commission shall be delivered to officers elected who are required
by law to execute bonds, until such bonds shall have
been duly executed, and the approval of the securities, in
such bonds, by the Chief Justice, endorsed thereon, and until
the same shall also have been recorded in the office prescribed
by law, and received, and placed on file, in the proper offices,
as directed by the provisions of former laws, and this act.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of
each and every Chief Justice, or Associate Justices acting,
to maKe full and complete returns of all elections for civil of
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