"AN ACT," February 3, 1841

Summary: This act repealed section 7 of the tax law, so that now it was illegal for revenue commissioners to demand the double tax penalty on 1839 tax certificates.

To Repeal the seventh section of "An Act Supplementary to an

Act to raise a Revenue by Direct Taxation, and for other pur-

poses."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, the seventh section of the above recited act, is hereby repealed, and that it shall be unlawful for the commissioner of revenue, to demand and receive double tax on certificates, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

DAVID S. KAUFMAN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ANSON JONES,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Approved February 3rd, 1841.

DAVID G. BURNET.

Source Copy Consulted: "AN ACT," February 3, 1841, reprinted in H.P.H. Gammel, The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897, 12 vols., (Austin: Gammel Book Co., 1898), 2:588. http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/lawsoftexas