The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 2 Page: 196
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requires,. shall be exacted as a license tax for the particular privilege,
business or profession, practiced or desired to be practiced,
held or obtained, or followed, as the case may be, which written application
must be filed by the Treasurer, who upon receiving from
the applicant in gold or silver, or the promissory notes of Government
the amount requisite for the license or licenses, desired by
such applicant, shall issue to him a receipt which shall express the
sum paid and description or kind of money paid, and received by
the Treasurer, and also declare what description of license or
licenses the applicant desires and has paid for, and with such receipt
the applicant shall apply to the clerk of the County Court,
who, thereupon, shall issue to him the particular kind of license
or licenses set forth in the receipt of the Treasurer as having been
paid for, and the said clerk shall file such receipt as his voucher
and authority for issuing or having issued such license or licenses;
and it is hereby made the duty of the several clerks of the County
Courts in this Republic, to keep a book in which shall be registered
every license issued by them, which register shall express the name
of the individual or firm in whose favor a license shall have issued,
as also the character and description of license issued, and date of
issue; and it is also made the duty of the Treasurer of the county
to keep a register book and record the name of all applicants for
license or licenses, the character and description of license applied
for, amount of money paid in to him, and the date on which he
issued a receipt to the applicant; and it is further made the duty of
the Treasurer to pay over to the Secretary of the Treasury in all the
month of November, the amount paid to and received by him for
licenses; and at the same time to transmit or hand over to the Secretary
of the Treasurer, a full, perfect and complete register of all
applications to him made, expressing the names, and also the date
of the issue of the receipt, and the amount received by him; and it
shall be the duty of the clerk of the court aforesaid, to transmit to
the Secretary of the Treasury a transcript of all licenses issued by
him, expressing the names to whom issued, date of County Treasurer's
receipt, and character and description of licenses issued;
and it is hereby made the duty and obligation of both County
Treasury and County Clerk, to exhibit the registers beforementioned
to any citizen freeholder of their respective counties; and
refusing to comply with a request for an exhibition of the books
of register by any citizen freeholder, they shall severally, as the
case may be, incur the penalty and forfeiture of fifty dollars, to
be recovered before any judge having jurisdiction or cognizance
thereof, on the complaint of any such freeholder, one half to the( 196)
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 2, book, 1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6726/m1/200/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .