Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional Government of Texas and the Convention, Which Assembled at Washington March 1, 1836. Page: 87
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mtnt of Texas, That tlere shall be, and there is hereby,
laid and establised, a duty of one dollar and twentyfive
cents tonnage on each and every vessel of over tei:
,tons burthen that may arrive or enter any port, harbor.
or within any revenue district established in Tex:;s,
coming from foreign ports; which said tonnage duties
shall be collected and paid over by the collector or his
deputy, agreeably to the provisions of the Ordinance
and Decree to which this is a supplement.
Be it farther ordaicine anrl decreed, That there shall
be, and there is hereby, laid and established a specific
duty of twelve and one-half cents per gallon upon a.
whiskey, American gin, rum aud brandy instead of an
"ad valoreln" duty, as laid by the Ordinance and Decree
to which this is a supplement.
Passed at San Felipc de Austin, December 13, 1S63.
JAMES W. ROBINSON,
Licut. Gov. and ex-oficio Prest. of G. C,
E. M. PEASE,
Sec'y of Gen. Council.
Approved, Dec. 1o, 1S35.
HENRY SMITH,
G overnor,
CHAS. B. STEWART,
Sec'y of Executive,
Al Ordntcc aTnd ,cree iDcreasiNg the iBounty to Su7ld0'.
of the Regular Arnry.
Be it orcdainecd and< decreed, and it is hereby ordained
and c6ecreec by the General Council of the Provisional
Government of Texds, That all persons entitled to a bounty
by' the fifth and sixth sections of an Ordinance and
'Decree to raise a Regular Army, passed on November
the twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-five,
shall be entitled to an additional bounty, over and above
the bounty already given, of one hundred and sixty
acres of land, and twenty-four dollars in money-onehalf
of said (money) twenty-four dollars to be paid to
each soldier upon being mustered at head-quarters of
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Texas (Republic). Secretary of State. Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional Government of Texas and the Convention, Which Assembled at Washington March 1, 1836., book, 1838; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth45353/m1/87/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .