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An Act to provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the State of Texas, for the year 1858. 1857 49 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0081 and id is 1 raw text is: s.ense of the voters of the said county is taken upon the sub- ject; and it, shall be the duty of the County Court to order polls to be opened at the usual places of voting in said county, at a time to -be fi-ed by the County Court, which shall be presided over and conducted in-the same manner as at other county elections - and due notice shall be given of the same, and the 'notices shall state the purpose and object for which the po, is held, andth6 proposed terms of subscription. And the voters who favor the subscription and the levy of the tax, as contemplated by this act' shall inscribe upon their ballots, For the Subscription and Tax, and- those of a contrary opinion shall inscribe upon their ballots, Against the Sub- scription and Tax, and returns of the voting shall be made to the Chief Justice, as in other cases. And -unless the result of the voting shall be that two-thirds of the voters, who voted, 4re in favor of the subscription and levy of said tax, the County Court shall not make the subscription or levy the tax ; but if the result of the first polls held be adverse to the subscription and tax, after the lapse of six montls, polls may be again opened as at the first, to take the sense of the voters, and the County Court shall be governed by the same. SEC. 6. That this act take effect from and after its pas- sage. Approved, January 16th, 1858. CHAPTER 45. AN A OT to provide for an enumeration qf the inhabitants of the State of Texao, for the year 1858. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legiftature of the State of Texa8, That the Assessor and Collector of each county in this State;, shall, at the time that he takes the Census of the scholastic population of his county in the year 1858, take an enumeration of the inhabitants of his county as follows, to- wit : First, the 'number of qualified electors; second, the number of white males over eighteen and under forty-five years of age ; third the number of white males under eigh- teen years of age ; orth, the number of white males over 4

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