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An Act entitled an Act for the collection of the amounts due on judgments of the Supreme, District, and County Courts. 1838 136 (1838.11)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0019 and id is 1 raw text is: 136 the first part of this section; and make return of the same to the clerk of the said court, and said clerk shall under his hand and seal transmit a copy of the return of said commissioners to the court in wuinch the succession was opened. CE'rTioN 7. Be it fmiter timn ted, That the court at its first term after such petition for dower is filed, shall proceed to hear and determine as to them shall secr just and right. Provided, That the party petitioning for dower shall give toVi days previous notice to the executors or administrators, or children of such de- ceased person, or to their representatives or to their gmardians if they be minors, by service as in other cases; and where there are no executors or administrators, or children or their represen- tatives, or when the widow is the executrix or administratrix, then she shAll give notice by advertisement in the newspapers published nearest the county in which the succession is carried, and once a week for four weeks. Su:vrmi4 8. B, it furihrr enacted, That it shall be lawful for the widow to retain full possession of the dwelling house in which her husband most usually dwelt next before his death, to. gether with the out houses, offices or improvements, and planta- tion, thereunto belonging, free from molestation and rent, until she shall have her dower assigned her. JOHN N. IANSFORD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID G. BURNET, President of the Senate. APPROVED Jan. 26, 1839, MIRAB ATJ B. LAMAR. AN ACT Entitled an Act for the collection of the amounts due on judgments of the ,Supreme, District, and County Courts. SETION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That from and after the rising of every court, it shall be the du- ty of the clerk thereof to tax the costs of suit incurred by the suc. cessful party, and for which judgment is rendered, di-tin(ruish- ing between the plaintiff's attorney's and sheriff's fees, and issue execution in the following form: The Republic of Texas to the sheriff or coroner, ,as the law may' require, of county: Whereas A B, on the day of , in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred rnd , at our court hath, recovered against C D for debt, (if dbt, designate the debt,

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