Laws Passed by the Eighth Congress of the Republic of Texas. Page: 79
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lowed all payments, made in compliance with the provisions
.of this act.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts ,t'
:laws, contravening rthe provisions of this act, be, and lti
:same are hereby, repealed.
,Appro,ved .February 3rd, 1844.
AN ACT
To authorize the holding of the District Court in two places
in the County of Fannin and for.other purposes.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That
the District Court, for the county of Fannin, shall be held at
Bonham, as heretofore, antr at the place of residence of Seamon
Bradley. That all the territory in said county, lying
west of a line, beginning at the mouth of Choctaw Bayou,
and running thence dcue south to the southern boundary line
.of said county, shall constitute, and be called, the Western
Section of said county of Fannin; that the said District
Court, shall be held at the said Bradley's, in the western
section of said county, on the last Mondays in the months of
February and August, in each year, aend may continue in
session, one week; that all the business, originating in said
western section of said county, shall be returned to the place
of holding the District Court, Or said section; that it shall
be the duty of the clerks, and the sheriff, of said county, to
attend said courts, and the clerk shall cause to be kept, at
said place of holding said court, a record of the proceedings
thereof; that all petitions filed, and other process issued,
shall pray the summons to be issued thereon, to be returnable
to the place of holding the court in the section in which the
business originates, and the clerk shall so issue his summons
or notice, and the sheriff shall make his returns accordingly;
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