HENDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS HISTORY - Acts of the Twelfth Legislature of the State of Texas Nov. 1871 This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Michael J. Vaughn Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** SOURCE: H. P. N. Gammel, compiler, The Laws of Texas: 1822-1897, 10 volumes (Austin: The Gammel Book Company, 1898), Volume VII, pages as noted below: Acts of the Twelfth Legislature of the State of Texas: Page 89, 13 November 1871: “Joint Resolution for the Relief of James H. Skinner, Sheriff of Henderson County. Whereas, On the eleventh day of September, 1871, at the city of Austin, one hundred and sixty dollars in United States currency, revenue of the State of Texas, collected by James H. Skinner, sheriff of Henderson county, on the tax assessment of the year 1871, was stolen from the Hon. W. B. Stirman, by whom it was being sent to the Treasury, without fault of said sheriff or his said agent; therefore, Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Texas, That James H. Skinner, sheriff of Henderson county be, and he is hereby relieved from any and all liability on account of the loss of said one hundred and sixty dollars, and that the Comptroller of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and required to credit said sheriff by the aforesaid amount in the settlement of his accounts. Sec. 2. That this resolution take effect and be in force from its passage.”