“No. 12–An Act to receive the surrender of the corporate rights and franchises of the Jefferson Iron Company, a private corporation of this State, and to amend the charter of the same.

Section 1.  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, that Horace Ware, as sole owner of the corporate rights and franchises of the Jefferson Iron Company, a private corporation, chartered on the 9th day of March, A.D. 1874, by the virtue of the general incorporation law of the State of Texas, be and he is hereby permitted to surrender all the corporate right and franchises of said Jefferson Iron Company to the State of Texas, and the charter heretofore issued to said company be and the same is annulled and cancelled, and record of such cancellation may be made in the office of the Secretary of this State.

Sec. 2.  The title to all property real and personal of said corporation is hereby divested therefrom and freely vested in the said Horace Ware individually, and to prosecute any and all suits in which said corporation may be a party.

Sec. 3.  Notice of this act having been published for 30 days as required by the Constitution, and the near approach of the close of the 18th Legislature creates an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days should be suspended, and that this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage; and it is so enacted.”

Reference Data:

The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897, by Texas, Gammel, Raines, Coahuila and Texas (Mexico), 1898, pages 34-5