A Digest of the Laws of Texas; Containing a Full and Complete Compilation of the Land Laws; Together with the Opinions of the Supreme Court. [1840-4 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... this decree, so far as they are opposed to the same, are hereby repealed; and Decrees, numbers 62 of the 15th of May, 1828, 190 of the 28th of April, 1832, and 128 of the 7th of April, 1830, are likewise repealed, with the exception of the last six Articles of the latter, which shall continue in force. Art. 30. Hereafter no Colonization Contract shall be made, and those heretofore made shall be strictly fulfilled, and in entire accordance with the law of the 24th of March, 1825. Section III. Art. 31. No petition for prolonging the time in contracts shall be passed to Congress by the Executive, unless authenticated so as sufficiently to prove that the persons interested have expended ten thousand dollars at least for carrying their engagements into effect, and that the non-fulfilment thereof has consisted solely in insuperable obstacles interposed by the Mexican authorities. Art. 32. To the inhabitants of the frontier of Nacogdoches, and those residing east of Austin's Colonies, titles shall be issued to the lands they occupy, according to Article 16 of the Colonization Law of the 24th of March, 1825, and the resolutions of the General Government of April and August, 1828: and the Executive shall appoint one or two Commissioners for that object, who without any delay shall execute the same at the expense of the persons interested; and the titles heretofore legally issued are hereby confirmed. Art. 33. The other colonists of the State, who, having emigrated separately, and at their own expense, within the six first years from the establishment of any colony, should not have received the augmentation conceded by said Article 16 of said Colonization Law, shall manifest the same to the Executive, through the channel of the political chief....
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