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Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes TX-1857
color; Runaways; Sales of slaves; Servants; Street
repair; Shields, John T.; Shields, Samuel William
TX-1855
Contains:
61• An Act making appropriations for the
Use and Support of the State Government
for the Years 1856 and 1857. [pp. 56-57,
59-60, 62]
66• An Act to authorize the County Courts
of this State to grant a License for the retail
of spirituous, vinous and [other] intoxicating
liquors in quantities less than a quart, and
imposing a license tax for such privilege,
[pp. 67-69]
2• Joint Resolutions of the Legislature of the
State of Texas. Passed 20th November,
1855. [pp. 83-84]
35• An Act to incorporate the City of
•Marshall, [pp. 40-41, 45]
55• An Act to incorporate the town of Rusk,
in Cherokee County, [pp. 60-63]
56• An Act to incorporate the Town of
Dallas, [pp. 63-64, 66]
81• An Act to incorporate the Town of
Belleville, [pp. 98, 100, 102]
Descriptors: Appropriations; Belleville, TX
Capital punishment; Cherokee County, TX;
Courts; Dallas, TX; Fugitive slave law, federal;
Hiring of slaves; Incorporation of cities and
towns; Kansas Nebraska Act; Liquor laws;
Marshall, TX; Rusk, TX; Slaveholding states;
Street repair
TX-1856
Contains:
119• An Act to amend the ninth section of an
act, entitled an act concerning free persons
of color, approved February 5th, 1840. [pp.
48-49]
152• An Act to prevent slaves from carrying
guns or other dangerous weapons, [pp.
81-82]
87• An Act to incorporate the City of San
Antonio, [pp. 4, 8-12, 21]
135• An Act to incorporate the Harrison
Manufacturing Company, [pp. 64, 68]
156• An Act to incorporate the town of
Anderson, Grimes county, Texas, [pp.
84-86]
238• An Act to consolidate in one act and to
amend the several acts incorporating the
city of Galveston. [pp. 142, 148, 155]
388• An Act to incorporate the City of
Lavaca. [pp. 296, 298-299, 303]
Descriptors: Anderson, TX; Boats and ships;
Cotton; Elections; Firearms; Free persons of
color; Galveston, TX; Grimes County, TX;
Harrison Manufacturing Co.; Incorporation of
cities and towns; Incorporation of companies;
Lavaca, TX; Patrols; San Antonio, TX; Street
repair; Taxation
TX-1857
Contains:
8• An Act to authorize and require all Forced
Sales of Real Estate and Negroes, and Sales
of Real Estate or Negroes made by
Executors and Administrators in the Coun-
ty of Travis, to be made on Congress
Avenue, at the South-East corner of Block
No. 70. [p. 7]
37• An Act to authorize and require all
forced sales of Real Estate and Negroes, and
Sales of Real Estate or Negroes, made by
Executors and Administrators in the Coun-
ty of Calhoun, to be made at the door of the
Casimer House, in the city of Indianola. [p.
35]
45• An Act to provide for an enumeration of
the inhabitants of the State of Texas, for the
year 1858. [pp. 49-51]
63• An Act to permit Free persons of African
descent, to select their own Master and
become Slaves, [pp. 75-77]
108• An Act authorizing and requiring the
County Courts to regulate Roads, appoint
Overseers, etc. [pp. 133-142]
121• An Act supplementary to and amenda-
tory of an act entitled an act to adopt and
establish a Penal Code for the State of
Texas, approved 28th August, 1856. [pp.
156-157, 164-165, 171-172, 174-177, 186-
189]
133• An Act to encourage the reclamation of
Slaves, escaping beyond the limits of the
Slave Territories of the United States, [pp.
202-203]
State Slavery Statutes 313