"AN ACT," January 7, 1843

Summary: This act ordered the Secretary of the Treasury or the county sheriff to pay assessors compensation after all taxes have been received in their county.

To provide for the payment of Assessors of Taxes.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That whenever an assessment of the direct taxes shall have been properly made and returned, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, to draw a draft or drafts, in favor of the assessor, upon the Sheriff of the County in which he is the assessor, for the amount which may be due as his compensation, which draft or drafts shall be receivable in payment of the taxes due the Republic, in the County in which the assessment has been made, or paid by the Sheriff out of the first money by him collected of the taxes of such County; and this act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved, 7th Jan., 1843.

Source Copy Consulted: "AN ACT," January 7, 1843, reprinted in H.P.H. Gammel, The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897, 12 vols., (Austin: Gammel Book Co., 1898), 2:833. http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/lawsoftexas