Excerpt from General Laws of the Tenth Legislature: Second Extra Session, of the State of Texas An Act to amend an Act, to encourage the erection of certain machinery, by donation of lands and otherwise, approved December 16th, 1863. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the third section of the aforesaid act shall be so amended as to read as follows: Section 3d. That it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners after making a minute personal examination of said machinery, and after procuring such other evidence of its value as may be accessible to them, to value the same at its true valuation in specie. In said valuation, the necessary buildings and structures, erected for the efficient operation of said machinery, shall be included; but the land upon which they are situated shall not be valued. In case said buildings or machinery shall have been destroyed, in whole or in part, by fire or the public enemy, or by any other cause, over which the owner or owners of said property had no control, before said Commissioners have made a personal examination thereof, they may nevertheless proceed to hear evidence and assess the value of said property as though it had not been destroyed. Provided, That no bonus shall be allowed to any party whose property has been so destroyed, unless the Commissioners are Satisfied that such party has exercised reasonable care over said property. Sec. 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved November 7, 1864. An Act to amend the fourth section of an Act to organize the Supreme Court of the State of Texas, approved May 12th, 1846. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.