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Laws of the Republic of Texas.
AN ACT
To create a body politic and corporate by the name of the MIatagorda
and Houston Chambers of Commerce.
Whereas, a large number of the merchants of the cities of Matagorda
and Houston have petitioned that a charter be granted
thelm, creating a chamber of commerce, and have set forth that
such an institution is required by the mercantile community, as
tending to diminish litigation and to establish uniform and
equitable charges, and considering that the establishment of a
chamber of commerce may thus tend to the general advantage
of the citizens of this Republic, as well as for the furtherance
of the commercial interest: Therefore,Sec.
1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That James
H. Worland, G. W. Ward, William C. McKinstry, W. W. Stewart,
C. L. Betts, Samuel B. Brigham, James W. Lann, A. Wadsworth,
Thomas Stewart, W. H. Chester, Edward W. Saunders, Gideon R.
Jaques, John B. Craig, J. W. Morse, Charles Howard and James
P. Belknap, merchants of the city of Matagorda, their associates
and successors be, and they are hereby declared to be, a body
politic and corporate, by the name of the Matagorda Chamber of
Commerce.
Sec. 2* Be it further enacted, That this act of incorporation
shall be in force for and during the space of ten years from the
passage thereof.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said body corporate be,
and the same is hereby authorised and empowered to form their
own by-laws. rules and regalations for their own government, not
contrary to the laws and constitution of this Republic, and to enforce
the same against their members.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted. That Thomas M. League, Henry
R. Allen, Wm. D. Lee, J. Temple Doswell, T. Francis Brewer,
George Gazley, E. Osborne, Charles J. I-edenburgh, John W. Pitkin,
Charles Kesler, E. S. Perkins, Dewit Clinton Harris, merchants
of the cit
of Houston, their associates and successors, be
and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate with the
name of Houston Chamber of Commerce, in accordance with the
provisions of this act.
DAVID S. KAUFMAN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
DAVID G. BURNET,
President of the Senate.
Approved January 28th, 1840.
MIRABEAU B. LAMAR.
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