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An Act supplemental to an act entitled An act to provide for submitting the ordinance of secession to a vote of the people 1861 18 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0095 and id is 1 raw text is: of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of Minute Men engaged in defence of the frontier during the year 1860,,by order of the Governor, and those that' may render service under the existing laws during the present. year. SEa. 2. That payments shall be made to the parties entitled thereto by the Comptroller of the State, every threb months, on pay rolls properly certified, and in case there shall not at any time be a sufficient amouLt of funds (over and above what may be necessary to defray the ordinary current expenses of the gov- ernment) to make said payment, then it shall be the duty of the Comptroller, Treasurer and Governor to issue a'warrant on the Treasury for such amount, in accordance with existing: laws on the subject. SEC. 3. That this act tako effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved Feb. 8, 1861. CHAPTER XXII. AN AOT Supplemental to an act entitled An act to provide for submitting the ordinance of secession to a vote of the people, .paaed at the present session. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature.of the State of Texas, That the Governor be and. he is hereby authorized and required to istue f)rthwith his proclamation for the election pro- vided for in the act to which this is a supplement,' directing the vote to be taken and returns to be made in the marner prescribed in said act, and in the ordinance of the Convention On the sub- ject. SEC. 2. In addition to the returns to be made as provided fn the ordinance aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the county officers to whom r~turns of said election are made, to make returns-of their respective counties to the Secretary of State; and such returns shall be filed, and counted by him in the presence of the Governor and Attorney General; any returns received, within fifteen days after the second day of M arch, 186J , shall in like manner be filed and counted, and all such retur a shall become a record of the State Department. SEC. 3. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, with a protest against the short time allowed for notice, February 9, 1861.

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