"JOINT RESOLUTION," January 25, 1841

Summary: This act allowed citizens who had not paid their taxes for the year 1840 to avoid the double taxation penalty as long as they paid their taxes immediately.

For the Relief of Persons who failed to give in a List of their Taxa-

ble Property to the County Assessor.

Sec. 1. Be it resolved 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 sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty; this is to say, one half of one per cent. on the amount of property to be assessed.

Sec. 2. Be it further resolved, 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 January 25th, 1841.

DAVID G. BURNET.

Source Copy Consulted: "JOINT RESOLUTION," January 25, 1841, reprinted in H.P.H. Gammel, The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897, 12 vols., (Austin: Gammel Book Co., 1898), 2:560. http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/lawsoftexas