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THE SEA.
The mean depth of the sea is according to La Place
'from. four lo five miles. If the existing water were in-
creased only one-foutth. it would drown the earth with
the exception of some higirmountains. IHhe vrrrrrme oJ
.the ocean were augmented by only one eighth considera-
ble portions of the present continents would be changed
.all over the globe. Evaporation would be so much ex-
tended that rains would continually destroy the harvest
and fruits and flowers and subvert the whole economy of
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inature. mere is pernaps noining more ueaumui m uui
system than the process by which our fields are irrigated
from the skies the rivers fed from the mountains and the
ocean restrained within bounds which it never can ex-
ceed so long as that process continues on the present
scale. The vapor raised by the sun from the sea floats
wherever it.is lighter than the atmosphere; condensed it
falls upon the earth in water; or on the mountains to re-
plenish the conduits with which externally or internll.iy
ithey are all furnished.
Bylhese conluhs the fluid is convyrd to the rivers
which flow on the surface of the earth and to the springs
which lie deep in the bosom destined to supply man with
a pure element. If we suppose the sea then to be consid-
erably diminished the Amazon and the Mississippi those
inland seas of the western world become inconsiderable
brooks would wholly disappear the atmosphere would
-be deprived of its due proportion of humidity all nature
would assume the garb of desolation the birds would
droop on the wing the lower animals would perish on
ithe barren soil and man himself would wither away like
.the sickly grass at his feet.
HOME.
;Horae thy joys are passing lovely
Joys no stranger heart can tell."
"What a charm rests upon the endearing name my
home ! consecrated by domestic love that golden key
of earthly happiness I Without this home would be like
a temple stripped of its garlands; there a father welcomes
with fond affection; a brother's kind sympathies comfort
in the hour of distress and assist in eveiy trial; there a
pious mother first taught the infant lips to lisp the name
of Jesus ; and there a loved sister dwells the companion
of early days.
Truly if there is aught that is lovely here below it is
home sweet home! it is like the oasis of the desert.
The passing or our oavs may be painful our pain may
be ehecaered with" sorrow anu '"'junlr?nH""gc
frowns may wither thejoyousness of the heart efface the
happy smiles from the brow and bedew life's way with
tears yet when the-memory hovers over the past there
as no place upon which it delights to linger as the loved
ecenes of childhood's home 1 It is the polar star of exist-
ence. What cheers the mariner far away from his native
land in a foreign port? or tossed upon the bounding bil-
lows as he paces the deck at midnight alone what thoughts
fill his breast? He is thinking of the loved ones faraway
at his own happy cottage; in his mind's eye he sees the
smiling group seated around the cheerful fireside. In
imagination he hears them uniting their voices in singing
the sweet songs which he loves. He is anticipating the
hour when he shall return to his native land to greet
those absent ones so dear to his heart.-
Why rests that deep shade of sadness upon the stran-
ger's brow hs he seats himself amid the family circle?
He is surrounded by all the luxuries that wealth can af-
ford ; happy faces gather around him and strive in vain
to win a smile. Ah 1 he is thinking of his own sweet
home of the loved ones assembled within his own cheer-
ful cot.
Why those tears which steal down the cheeks of that
young and lovely girl as the mingles in the social circle?
Ah !" she is an orphan ; she too had a happy home ; but
that house is now forsaken and desolate; its loved ones
are now sleeping in the cold and silent tomb. The gen-
tle mother watched over her infancy and hushed her to
sleep with a lullaby which a mother only can sing who
in girlhood days taught her of the Saviour and tuned the
youthful voice to ing praises to his name has gone to
the mansions of joy above and is mingling her sougs and
tuning her golden harp with bright angels in heaven.
Poor one! She is now left to tread the thorny path of
life a lonely homeless wanderer.
Thus it is in this changing world. The objects most
dear are snatched away. We are deprived of the friends
whom we most love and our cherished home is rendered
drear and dessolafe. ''Passing away" is engraven on all
things earthly. But there is a home that knows no chan
ges where separations never tafcc place where the sor-
rowing ones of this world may obtain relief for all their
griefs where the sighs and tears of earth are exchanged
for unending songs of joy. That home is found in heav-
en. In the shadowy past there is one sweet reminiscence
which the storms of lif can never wither ; it is the recol-
lection of home of childhood's home. In the visioned
future there is one bright star whose lustre never fades ;
it is the hope of home of a heavenly home. Musical
YisiloT.
Taslefor Reading. If I were to pray for a taste that
should stand by me in stead under every variety of cir-
cumstances and be a source of happiness and cheerful-
ness to me through life and a shield against its ills how-
ever things might go amiss and the world frown upon
me it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it of
course only as a worldly advantage and not in the slight-
est degree derogating from the higher office and sure
and stronger panoply of religious principles but as a taste
an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification
Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it and
you can hardly fail of making him a happy man unless
indeed you put into his hands a most perverse selection
books. You place him in contact with the best society
in every period of history; with the wisest the wittiest
with the tenderest the bravest and the purest characters
who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen
of all nations a cotemporary of all ages. The world
has been created for him. It is hardly possible but the
character should take a higher and better tone Irom the
constant habit of associating in thought with a class of
thinkers to say the least of it above the average of hu
manitv. It is morally impossible but that the manners
should take a tinge of good breeding and civilization
fmm havintr constantly before our eyes the way in which
the b'-st bred and best informed men have talked and con-
ducted themselves in the intercourse with each other.
There is a gentle but perfectly irresistible coercion in a
habit of reading well directed over the whole tenour of
man's character and conduct which is not the less effec-
tual because it works insensibly and because it is really
the last thing he ti: earns of. It cannot be better summed
up than in the words of the Latin .poet "Emollit mores
necsinit esse fero$" it civilizes the conduct of mi n and
suffers them nottn remain baibarous." Sir J. Hcrschcl.
THE ARAB AND HIS HORSE.
An Arab and his tribe had attacked in the desert the
caravan of Damascus; the victory was complete and the
Arabs were already occupied in loading their rich booty
when the troops of the Pacha of Acre coming to meet this
caravan fell suddenly upon the victorious Arabs slew tt
great number of them made the remainder prisoners and
having tiedt hem with cords concluded them lo Acre to
present them before the Pacha. Abouel Marsch had re-
ceived a ball in his arm during thecombat. As his wound
was not mortal the Turks had fastened him on a camel
and having obtained possession of his horse led offbolh
horse and hoiseman. The evening before the day on which
thev were to enter Acre they encamped with their prison
ers in the mountains ofSaphad; the woundid Arab had
his len-s bound together by a leathern thrnand was stretch-
ed near the lent where the Tuiks were sleeping. During
the niht keptaw.ike by the pain of his wounds he heard
his horse neigh amongst the other horses fastened around
the tents according to oriental usage. He recognised
his jjeighantrTu-iable to resist the desire of speaking
once more to the companion of bis life he dragged himself
with difficulty along the ground by the assistance of his
hands and knes and came up to his courser. "Poor
friend" said he to it "what wilt thou do amongst ihe Turks?
Thou wilt be immured under the arches of a khan with
the horses of an Aa or Pacha; the women and the chil-
dren will no longer bring thee the camel's milk or the
barley or the doura in the hollow of their hands ; thou wilt
no longer run free in the desert as the wind of Egypt; thou
wilt no more divid-the waters of the Jordan with thy breast
and cool thy skin as white as their foam; therefore if I
remain a slave remain thou free; go return to the tent
which thou knowesl say to my wife that Abou-el Marsch
will return no more and put thy head under the cuitains
of the tent and lick the hands of my little children. While
speaking thus Abou-el Marsch had gnawed through with
his teeth the cord of goat-hair which fetters Arab horses
and the animal was free; but seeing his master wounded
and bound at his feet the faithful and sagacious steed un-
derstood by instinct what no language could explain to
him. He stooped his head smell his master and seizing
him with his teeth by the leathern thong which he had
about his body went off in a gallop and bore him to his
tent. On arriving and placing his master on the sand at
the feet of his wife and children the horse expired from
fatigue. All the tribe wept for him the poets have cele-
brated him and his name is constantly in the mouths of the
Arabs of Jericho. Lamar tinc: s Travels.
The humble current of little kindnesses which though
but a creeping streamlet incessantly flows; although it
glides in silentsecresy within the domestic walls and along
the walks of private life and makes neither noise nor ap-
pearance in the world pours in the end a more bountiful
tribute into the store of human comfort and felicity than
any sudden and transient flood of detached bounty howev-
er ample that may rush into it with a mighty sound.
Religious Impressions There are those to whom a
senne of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are
those whom it has summoned amid revelry and idle vani-
ty; there are those too who have heard its "still small
voice" amid ruri.1 leisure and placid contentment. But
thfi. JaioAvledtje thatcauslhjiQL to err is most
frequently impressed upon the mind during seasons of af-
fliction; are the softened showers which cause the seeed of
Heaven to spring and take root in the human breast.
Scott.
Good Manners. Good manners are the blossoms of
good senseand it may be addrd of good feeling too: for
if the law of kindness be written in the heart it will lead
to that disinterestedness in little as well as in great things
that desire to oblige and attention to the gratification of
others which is the foundation of good manners. Locke.
Evil Companions. Parents cannot be too careful in
selecting society for their children ; and young men cannot
be too choice in their associates. The adage has lost noth-
ing by age which says "A man is known by the compa-
ny he keeps." To young men especially it is of infinite
importance that they be furnished with companions pos-
eissing generous hearts and honorable virtuous sentiment.
Says the distinguished Robert Hall in his "Works" re-
cently published by Harper and Brothers:
"Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily
imbibe from it something which is either infectious or sa-
lubrious. The society of virtuous persons is enjoyed be-
yond their company while vice carries a sling into solitude.
The society or the company you keep is both the indica-
tion of your character and the former of it. In company
when the pores of the mind are opened there requires
more guard than usual because the mind is then passive.
Either vicious compnny will please you or it will not; if
it does not please you the end of going will be defeated."
In such society ''you will feel your reverence for the dic-
tates of conscience wear off and that name at which an-
gels bow and devils tremble you will hear contemned and
abused. The Bible will supply materials for unmeaning
jests or impious buffoonery; the consequence of this will
be a practical deviation from virtue; the principles will be-
come sapped and the fences of conscience broken down ;
and when debauchery has corrupted the character a total
inversion will take place ; they will glory in their shame.
Consumption of Sugar in France According to the
official returns of the manufacture and consumption of do-
mestic sugar in France there were 289 manufactories in
activity on the 1st of January 1845 or 35 less than at the
corresponding period of 1844. The quantity manufactu-
red in the year together with that lying over since 1843
amounted to 18185461 kilogrammes or 530643 less
than in 1843 and the quantity sold for consumption to
1 1956371 kilogrammes or 1J083.039 more than 1843.
The duties levied on that article in 1844 produced 9066-
381 f or 1674.645 f. more than in the preceding year.
The consumption last season of Peruvian and African
guano was 60000 tons. The slock on hand at the be-
ginning of the present year was 39000 tons. The de-
mand it is expected will this year exceed 160000 or
200000 tons. Prices are rising.
AN ACT
Amendatory of an Act to provide for the establishment
and maintainance of peace and to regulate friendly in-
tercourse with the Indians approved fourteenth Janu-
ary eighteen hundred and forty-three.
Whereas by the eighth section of the above recited act
all persons authorized to carry on trade with the In-
dians are required to enter into bond with good and
sufficient security for the faithful performance of their
duties under the law and for the infringement of which
they are liable to fine and imprisonment and whereas
the persons authorized to trade as aforesaid are re-
quired to pay into the Treasury of the Republic when-
ever called on so to do such license tax as may be
designated by the President and whereas also" the
eleventh section of the aforesaid uct conflicts with the
provisions of the eighth section so as to interfere mate-
rially with the intent ofthe regular trader and so as to
endanger the peace of the frontier by enticing within
the settlements individuals or parties of Indians: there-
fore Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress
assembled That .he eleventh section of the above recited
act be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted That it shall be the
special duly of each Indian Agent to arrest prosecute or
to authorize some other person to prosecute any person
found trading with Indians within the bounds of this Re-
public without having a license so lo do; and when any
Indian Agent has reason to believe that tho goods in the
possession of any person trading with Indians have been
brought into this Republic in contravention ofthe revenue
laws ofthe same the Agent shall be authorized todemand
proof of the owner or possssor that the duties on such
goods have been paid according to law and in failure of
such proof said goods shall be liable to confiscation and
the Agent is authorized to seize the same and report them
to the President ; but no seizure shall be made under the
provision of this section short of three months after its pas-
sage; and provided that this section shall not be so con
strued as to prevent farmers from selling their own pro-
duce to Indians.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted That so much of the
fourteenth section ofthe above recited act approved four-
teenth January eighteen hundred and forty-three as pro-
vides that any person or persons violating the provisions
of said section shall bu liable therefor to indictment in any
county ofthe Republic is hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted' That it shall be the
duty of Indian Agents licensed traders or other Govern-
ment officers concerned with Indian affairs to prevent as
far as practicable without interfering with the friendly re
lations with Indians the same from coming within the
limits of the settlements and all trading houses shall be
kept on the frontier in advance of the settlements; and
the President is hereby authorized to cause such addition-
al trading houses to be established as he may deem neces-
sary and under the same regulations as the law to which
this is a supplement directs.
Sec. 5. Beit further enacted That this act take effect
and be in force from and after its p'assage.
Appioved February 3d 1845.
From the Washington Constitution )
ANNEXATION Bv a New Yorker.
The annexation of Texas to this Union has been very
justly pronounced by the patriot of the Hermitage ''the
most important measure which hasarisen since the settle-
ment of the Federal Constitution." The question involves
considerations and results highly interesting to this whole
continent intensely important to Europe and of vital con-
sequence to all the best interests ofthe American people
agricultural commercial and manufacturing. To the
planter manufacturer and ship-owner it raises the direct
question of competition in their several pursuits in an em-
inently important degree; while the farmer ofthe North
and all other classes of men engaged in whatever vocation
cannot fail to be affected by the result in a corresponding
ratio.
The culture of cotton in Texis possessing as she does
a better adoption of soil and climate than most sections of
the Union and a larger amount of excellant cotton land
than any known country on the globe may immediately
be carried on to an almost indsfiniui extent. The advan-
tage of possessing a more general superiority and cheap-
ness of soil and its easier preparation for the crop togeth-
er with the capacity to produce a finer staple and greater
yield (in consequence of the picking seasjn being two
months longer than in the United States) will enable Texas
very readily to compete with the South in the foreign mar-
ket and at no distant day lo monopolize the entire Euro-
pean demand without the facilities of exclusive or more
favorable trans-atlantic commercial relations. But the
probability ofthe future establishment of commercial trea-
ties between England and other countries and Texas in
case of the continued independence of the latter securing
to her extraordinary advantage in their markets advanta-
ges that would give the young Republic a mighty impulse
in political power general advancement and individual
prosperity is no longer problematical. Information has
been derived from an authentic source (upon which the
writer of this places the utmost reliance) that Great Britain
has recently made overtures to high functionaries of Texas
imploring "the latter to open negociations having for their
object the establishment of a treaty and firm alliance be-
tween Great Britain and other European powers and Tex-
as the basis of which will include the guarantee of the
peace and independence ofthe latter against Mexico and
the admission of Texas cotton and other prominent articles
of export into tho ports of those countries free of all duties
whatever. Nor can this statement be doubted when its
proposed policy is palpably of such infinite importance to
Great Britain. It has been the unceasing effort of her best
statesman for the last half century to throw that dependence
upon this country for one of the prime and most essential
staples in the list of human wants which has so long annoy-
ed her and controlled with a more potent influence her
diplomacy with America than a hundred navies "grinning
arrogantly" upon her coast; and to avoid which she has
experimented in three of the four quarters ofthe globe and
expended her best blood and millions of treasure. With
a present foreboding of disastrous termination to her ex-
pensive Coolie experiment she has turned her sagacious
eye as a dernier rpsort upon the beautiful and fertile plains
of" Texas and has significantly enough shadowed forth
her policy of building up a rival independent Republic in
our immediate vicinity closely allied to her in interest and
directly conflicting with us in our most important produc-
tive resources; thus essaying to create a rivalship of inter-
est between the two countries calculated to engender an
alienation of feeling and to render their future legislation
antagonistical and unnatural.
The sagacious statesmen of England surveying her
past history and very Justly attributing her hitherto pre-
eminent prosperity ana present almost unwieldy power
to her commerce and her supeiior manufacturing advan-
tages until the last quarter of a century almost exclusively
enjoyed by her contemplate' not with unconcern the rapid
strides of the same and other species of productive wealth
in this country which if circumstances continue the same
or in other words the United States continue to enjoy the
monopoly of cotton culture and consequent ability the more
eisilyio overcome the other superior facilities of Great
Britain in its manufacture including cheapness of labor
will every day diminish the prosperity of England and
finally monopolize both the culture and manufacture of
the article for the demand ofthe world. Depending as
does the commerce of Great Britain so intimately upon
her manufactures it must necessarily decay with the de-
crease of the latter; and the course of both contributing
vastly to the decline of her prosperity force'upon the minds
of her intelligent sons the sickening contemplation of the
tottering fabric of her pride her glory and her power
before the irresistible genius of American institutions and
enterprise.
The same causes that have contributed to her wonderful
prosperity have in another form given rise to the extra-
ordinary growth and advancement of this country. Great
Britain is indebted to her manufactures and their hand-
maid commerce; and the United States to her culture of
the great staple cotton and consequent impulse to com-
merce. The manufacturing art in the highest de'grees
of perfection at which it had arrived during any period of
its existence has been hitherto almost exclusively enjoyed
by England. The largest share of her population and
capital are engaged in it and the lesullhas been to render
the world for an important article of its wants her tribu-
tary; thus securing to her the monopoly of thecarrying
trade until "the sails of her commerce whitens every sea
trom Indus to the lJoIe." Is it wonderiuj. then with such
extraordinary advantages and impulses that she has be-
come the queen ofthe sea and the wealthiest as she is the
most powerful nation on the globe? What on the other
hand has contributed most to the gigantic growth of this
country now but little more than a half century old in
political power and general wealth? It is emphatically
the monopoly she has enjoyed in the culture ol cotton by
which she is now enabled to send abroad from 60000000
to 890000000 worth of the raw material alone per
Minum.
While thse two favored nations have thus prospered
others have been stationary or retrogating. The Ger-
mans have plodded on and ploddtd on and are still the
same. In productive wealth France remains in statu
quo her vine-clad hills and verdant vales still inviting
the pilgrim from other climes and the Stales of Central
and South America are not advancing with a vigorous
growth in wealth science or civilization. If we trace
the history of those nations that have been eminently
powerful prosperous or enlightened the secret of their
success in all them will be found to have been in the en
joyment of some exclusive or extraordinary advantage in
physical or artificial resources. It is not so much to the
innate genius of the English or Americans but to the
necessities and advantages of their situation they ewe
their present distinguished individual and national supe-
riority. Transfer the causes of that success to another
people and the same results will surely follow; and in
proportion as the one expands and flourishes the other is
crippled and retrogades. It is as physically impossible
for all States to wield the power and wealth of England
and America as it is for all individuals to possess the
wealth of tffti'Barings or Astor. Change too has been
the order of all things. Greece "the mother of sciences
and nurse of arms" is now the very opposite of all she
was-; her glories are faded and her temples usurped by
the fljeks of the half-civilized shepherd. Weakness and
imbecility sits enthroned in the palace of the (. Esars and
indolence and inibriety occupies the former seats of com-
mercial intelligence and enterprise. The circumstances
that have hitherto promoted the wealth and power ofthe
Mediteranean states have been constantly changing from
one to another and at last to the British islands until Eng-
land has arrived at perhaps the acme of her individual
wealth and political power; a position she has acquired
from the tribute exae'ed from her neighbors and which is
rapidly transferred to America. Shall the progress of this
principle then be arrested or its direction changed by
dividing our people and scattering their physical resour-
ces? Texas must be annexed and we shall then control
our own destinies; and England in another half century
will not only be far behind us in the race for glory and
power but infinitely below her present position.
I SEE THEE STILL.
BY C. SFRA6TJE.
I see thee still ;
Remembrance faithful lo her trust
Calls thee in beauty from the dust;
Thou comest in the morning light
Thou'rt with me through the gloomy night;
In dreams I meet thee as of old ;
Then thy soft arms my neck enfold
And thy sweet voice is in my ear:
In every scene to memory dear
I see thee still.
I see thee still
In every hallowed token round;
This little ring thy finger bound
This lock of hair thy forehead shaded
This silken chain by thee was braded
These flowers all wither'd now like thee
Sweet sister thou didst call for me ;
This book was thine ; here didst thou read :
This picture ah yes! here indeed
I see thee still.
I see thee still :
Here was thy summer noon's retreat --
Here was thy favorite fireside seat;
This was thy chamber here each day
I saw and watched thy sad decay ;
Here on this bed thou last did lie;
Here on this pillow thou didst die:
Dark hour! once more its woes unfold ;
As then I saw thee pale and cold
I see thee still.
I see thee still :
Thou art not in the grave confined
Death cannot chain the immortal mind
Let earth close o'er its sacred trust
But goodness dies not in the dust;
Thee O ! my sister 'tis not thee
Beneath the coffin's lid I see ; -
Thou to a fairer land art gone ;
There let me hope my journey done
To see thee still.
AN ACT
To incorporate the Grand Lodge ofthe Republic of Texas
and other subordinate Lodges.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress
assembled That the Grand Master Grand Warden and
Brethren ofthe Grand Lodge ofthe Republic of Texas
be and are hereby constituted and declared to be a body
corporate and politic under the name and style ofthe
Grand Lodge ofthe Republic of Texas with rower and
authority to sue and be sued plead and be impleaded ; to
have and use a common seal and at pleasure to alter or
change the same and in their corporate capacity to hold
and possess estate real and personal not exceeding twenty
thousand dollars in value with fujl and ample powers to
dissolve their corporation at any time they may deem prop-
er and to sell and convey their corporate property and dis
tribute the proceeds among the individual members of the
Lodge or iu such other manner as they may direct provi-
ded the amount of real estate in lands shall not exceed five
acres and further provided that when real estate shall ac-
crue to said Grand Lodge and subordinate Lodges by do-
nation or will they shall have the period of two years to
dispose of the same.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That the provisions of
the first section of this act shall be extended to the Master
Wardens and Brethren of Holland Lodge number one
at Houston to the Master Wardens and Brethren of Har-
mony Lodge number six at Galveston to the Master War-
dens and Brethren of Orphans Friends Lodge number
seventeen at Fantharps in Montgomery county and to
such other subordinate Lodges as are or may be establish-
ed under the Grand Lodge ofthe Republic of Texas that
may avail themselves ofthe same.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted That this act shall lake
effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved January 30th 1845.
AN ACT
To authorize the appointment of Trustees in certain ca-
ses. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives ofthe Republic of Texas in Congress
assembled That from and after the passage of this act it
shall be lawful for any denomination of Christians or
the citizens of any neighborhood in this Republic to ap-
point a board or boards of Trustees for meeting houses
camp grouuas parsonages anu scnooi nouses.
Sec. 2. Bu it further enacted That each-denomination
shall be allowed to adopt its own method of appoint-
ing Trustees and that when the cilizens of any neighbor-
hood shall be disposed lo build a school house a public
meeting of the cilizens shall be called -by giving at least
ten days previous notice said meeting shall choose n
President and Secretary for the timp. hpinir nml .. tha
meeting is so organized they shall proceed to elect by a
majority of votes in the manner thev may think best un-
suitable number of Trustees not less than three nor more8
than nine and a certificate of their election shall be made
out and signed by the President and Secretary ofthe meet-
ing and shall within sixty days thereafter be forwarded
to the office of Recorder of the county in which such''
election shall have taken place and in case an appoint-"
ment of Trustees shall be made by any church or denomi-
nation of christians a like eertifn-.ntP of thnJr n ;. -
i shall be made out and signed by the proper officer oroffi-
Jcers of the church or denomination making the appoint-
i ment and be forwarded for record as above-specified.
I Sec. 3. Be it further enacted That all vacancies in
.-boards of Trustees shall be filled by each body having
jurisdiction in the case provided that when a board of
pTrustees shall be dissolved bv death resianntion nr r-
S wise it shall be lawful for the party having jurisdiction
... uc LUac iu appoint a new ooara oi Trustees as provided
for in the firs section of this act.
Sec. 4. Be it further enniMpr! Thnt n-hon n T.n.t e
Trustees shall be so constituted they shall be considered
in law and equity a body politic and corporate capable of
mafcinff contracts. of suino-nnd heincr ji!Pfl"nrntoirK..i
J being impleadedj of receiving and holding; (in trust) lands "
I and other property for the purpose of building jneeting..-
f cotlses camn srround. narsonao-es or sphnnl hnncpnc tho
lease may be for the use and benefit ofthe church or peo- ':
yie ujjpuiuuug mem ; ana in all cases said Trustees shall
be accountable to the power appointing them for thefaitb "
ful performance of their duty and it shall be lawful for -those
havinsriunsaiction. to rpmnwp thpin fmm nflw a -
I any time for deliquent conduct
St?P R Rail rnrtliar nn..i.J ml -11 I J- ' -
. . ..luuncicuavicu j. uau an ianus inoi ex-
ceeding ten acres in each case) held by such Trustees
for any one or all ofthe nnrnnsps nhnvpH nnmnH inrroiVmi-
i with the buildings improvements and furniture belonging
. to the same shall be held free from taxation until the leg-
I islature shall otherwise direct.
I Sec. 6. Be it further enacted That all lands or other -
property heretofore conveyed to any church or denomina- -J
tion of christians or association ofthe people for thepur-
1 poses above named shall enjoy all the benefitsof this act
t Provided the amount of lands exempt from taxation shall"
not exceed ten acres in each case.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted That it shall be the duty -y
of the President ofthe Trustees nscontemplated by this act
I to give in the land or other properly for taxation belonging
: to such Trustees under oath except such a3 are-exV"1-'
i empt ny mis act and tne right is hereby reserved to the
strictionsofthis act "as may seem to it to comport with the-
public interest-
Approved January 30th 1845.
AN ACT
Supplementary to an act to be entitled an act for the pro-
tection of the frontier.
Section 1-. Be it enacted by the Senato and House
of Representatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress '
assembled That the President be anif he is hereby au-
thorized and required to appoint theofficers of the com-
panies and detachments contemplated in the provisions and
to carry into effect the act to which this is a supplement
and that the commander of each company shall be the
disbursing officer thereof upon his giving bond and securi-
rty in the sum of fare thousand dollars lor a faithful per
formance ot the same to be approved by the President"--any
thing in the act to which this is a supplftnenL to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2: Be it further enacted That this act take cflect-
and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved February 3d 1845.
Arrival and Departure ofthe Mails lo and from Hous-
ton. ' -
Washington Mail via Arnold's arrive at Houston eve-
ry Thursday at 6 o'clock P. M. and every Sunday at:6rw
o'clock P. M.
Leave Houston every Monday 6 o'clock A. M. asd
Thursday 6 o'clock A. M. " ' '"
Montgomery Mail via Croft's Spring Greek. -
Arrive af Houston every Sunday at 12 o'clockf-M.
Leave Houston every Monday at 6 o'clock A. M.
Egypt Mail via Hodge's Bend Richmond and Da-
mon's Mill.
Arrive at Houston every Monday at 12 o'clock M.
Leave Houston every Monday at 1 o'clock P. M.
Galveston Mail via New Washington and Lynch-
burg per arrival and departure ofthe Boats.
MARTIN .K. SNELL Post Master
Houston April 1st 1845.
: ar
JOINT RESOLUTION "";.
To establish a Hospital at Galveston. v. "?
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House'"
of Representatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress
assembled That the Commander of every vessel arriving
at ihe port of Galveston shall be required to pay to the
Collector of that port the sum of fifty cents for every for-
eign white male cabin passenger over sixteen years of age
and the sum of twenty-five cents for every foreign whita
male steerage passenger over sixteen years of age accor-
ding to the list of passengers produced by said Commander
or his clerk which list shall be duly signed and sworn
to.
Section 2. Be it further resolved That the Collector of
the port of Galveston shall be required to make monthly
returns of such funds as may be raised under the first sec
tion of this Act to the corporate authorities of said port
to be applied by them to the establishment of a Hospi-
tal in such place time and manner as they may deem
proper.
Sec. 3. Be it further resolved That this Act take effect
and be in force from and after the first day of May nest.
Approved February 3d 1845.
AN ACT
To provide the times and place of holding the sessions of'
the Supreme Court of the Republic.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress
assembled That hereafter the annual sessions ofthe Su-
preme Court shall be held at the seat of government or
the same place that the regular sessions of Congress may
be held and the said annual sessions of the Su-
preme Court shall commence to be held on the
third Monday of December in each and every year and
the next session ofthe Supreme Court shall commence to
be held on the third Mondayjof December A. D. eighteen
hundred and forty-five any law to the contrary notwith-
standing; and all parts of laws conflicting with this act be
and the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted That this act shall take
effect from and after its passage. - .
Approved February 3d 1845.
AN ACT
To provide for the issuance of Patents to Assignees.
Section I. Be tt enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives ofthe Republic of Texas in Congress
assembled That the Commissioner ofthe General Land
Office be authorized and required to issue patents in the
names of the Assignees of all transferable land claims
upon their presenting to him a complete and properly au-
thenticated chain of transfer or obligation for title from
the original grantee.
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