"JOINT RESOLUTION," February 4, 1841

Summary: The Texas Congress decreed that citizens who had not turned in their lists of taxable property for the year 1840 would avoid the double taxation penalty if they paid their taxes by June 1st, 1841.

For the relief of Persons who have failed to give in a list of their

Taxable property to the County Assessor.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, in Congress assembled, That all persons who have failed to give in a list of their taxable property to the county Assessors for the year eighteen hundred and forty, be, and they are hereby exempted from double taxation; provided, the party so exempted, pay or cause to be paid, into the hands of the proper officer before the first day of June next, the amount of his taxes, as prescribed by an act, approved January the sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty, that is to say, one half of one per cent. on the amount of property to be assessed.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect from and after its passage.

DAVID S. KAUFMAN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ANSON JONES,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Approved February 4th, 1841.

DAVID G. BURNET.

Source Copy Consulted: "JOINT RESOLUTION," February 4, 1841, reprinted in H.P.H. Gammel, The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897, 12 vols., (Austin: Gammel Book Co., 1898), 2:575. http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/lawsoftexas