"AN ACT," February 5, 1841

Summary: This act raised the import duties on all goods except sugar, coffee, salt, iron and steel.

Supplementary to "An act to raise a public revenue by Impost

Duties, approved fifth of February, one thousand eight hundred

and forty.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, in Congress assembled, That the following duties shall be collected upon all imposts into the Republic, to wit:--upon all articles on which a specific duty is laid, there shall be levied and collected a duty double that now fixed by law, and the ad valorem duties of ten or fifteen per cent. as fixed by the act to which this is a supplement, shall be raised to forty-five per cent., except sugar, coffee, salt, iron and steel, which shall remain as heretofore.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall go into effect from and after the first of April next.

DAVID S. KAUFMAN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ANSON JONES,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Approved February 5th, 1841.

DAVID G. BURNET.

Source Copy Consulted: "AN ACT," February 5, 1841, reprinted in H.P.H. Gammel, The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897, 12 vols., (Austin: Gammel Book Co., 1898), 2:576. http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/lawsoftexas