7 Suspension by Texas Legislature of all law providing for the collection of certain debts and liabilities on bonds, promissory notes, bills of exchange and contracts for money payments until January 1, 1864, or six months after the end of the war, except for those applying to enemy aliens. 30 Capturing of the schooner _Gasonne_ off Galveston. 1862 January 6 Permission by the State Legislature to Anderson County allowing the levying and collection of taxes sufficient to pay for 128 Morse Rifles. Legislative appropriation of $5,000 to pay the cost of transporting all clothing or other contributions to Texans in the Confederate service. 8 Legislative provision for a Hospital Fund of $150,000 to care for the sick and wounded Texas Soldiers. 11 Legislation creating a State Military Board with authority to buy arms and munitions, to manufacture arms and munitions and establish foundries for the manufacture of ordinance and arms. 13 Legislative authorization of County Patrols. 14 Legislative appropriation of $1,000,000 for military purposes. February 11-13 Policing of Aransas Bay by Federal Navy. 21 Defeat by General H. H. Sibley’s Brigade of the Federal forces at Val Verde and the capture of Albuquerque and Santa Fe. 22 Attack on Aransas Pass by U.S. Navy. March 25 Organization of Sixteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Camp Groce near Hempstead, Texas. 28 Defeat of General H. H. Sibley’s Brigade at Glorietta, N. M.; return of troops to Texas and collapse of John R. Baylor’s Confederate government in the Arizona Territory. April 5 Patroling by the U.S. Navy in San Luis Pass, Galveston Island. ? Organizing and enlisting of the Thirty-First Texas Cavalry for the duration of the war. 16 Enactment of the first Confederate conscription law. 22 Capture of U.S. Navy launches off Aransas Pass. 25 Capture of U.S. Troops at Saluria (Matagorda Island). Surrender of U.S. forces at Indianola. May 14-15 U.S. Navy demonstrations at Galveston. 26 Creation of the Trans-Mississippi Military Department of the Confederacy. 30 Declaration of martial law in Texas. July 4 Attack on U.S. vessels at Velasco. 7-17 Increased Patrol activity by U.S. Navy in San Luis Pass. August