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An Act to repeal an Act entitled An Act prohibiting Forced Sale of Slaves 1841 25 (1841)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0038 and id is 1 raw text is: physician of said Penitentiary; and it shall be the duty of the eeper of said Pohitentiary to issue proposals for supplying said convicts with the food hereby allowed; and to make contracts for the same, with the lowest bidder for such contracts, and requiring bond and security for their faithful performance, to see that tile same are complied with: and it shall also be his duty to certify and approve the accounts of said contractors, monthly, for the supplhes whicli may be furnished, which accounts shall be settled at the Treasury Department, as other public accounts are settled. Sc. 10. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said keeper to contract with some resident physician of the county or neighborhood where said Penitentigry is located, to attend said convicts when sick, at a fixed and established rate for each visit to said Penitentiary, to be settled at the Treasury Depart- mont as other accounts are settled. Sixc. 11. Be it further enacted, That the sum of two thou- sand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying into effect all the provisions of this act ; but that no part of said money shall be drawn from the Treasury, except upon the war- rant of the Auditor, issued upon the settlement of accounts as provided for by law ; or upon the requisition of said agent, coun- tersigned by the President, and audited as aforesaid; and no part of said appropriation shall be applied to the erection of the perma- nent buildings of said Penitentiary, until the heavy materials for the same have been gotten out and prepared by the convicts therein. Passed January 4th, 1842. AN ACT To repeal an Act entitled An Act prohibiting lorced Sale of Slaves. Be it enacted by, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That An Act prohibiting forced sale of Slaves under Execution,) approved January 27th, 1811, be, and the same is hereby repeale Approved 30ih Dec., 1811.

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