Laws Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of Texas

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Telegraph Office, 1884

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Page 1 - ... shall be referred • to the same committee) by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.
Page 38 - A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the legislature of the state to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.
Page 75 - Therefore be it RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (THE SENATE CONCURRING...
Page 64 - ... punished by confinement in the State Penitentiary for a term of not less than two, nor more than five years.
Page 39 - All lands heretofore or hereafter granted to the several counties of this State for educational purposes are of right the property of said counties respectively to which they were granted, and title thereto is vested in said counties, and no adverse possession or limitation' shall ever be available against the title of any county. Each county may sell or dispose of its lands in whole or in part, in manner to be provided by the commissioners court of the county.
Page 62 - ... contract in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such property is situated, and cause the same to be recorded in a book to be kept by the county clerk for that purpose...
Page 38 - All funds, lands and other property heretofore set apart and appropriated for the support of public schools; all the alternate sections of land reserved by the State out of grants heretofore made or that may hereafter be made to railroads, or other corporations...
Page 74 - Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of Texas (the House of Representatives concurring), That...
Page 16 - That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he is hereby, required to state an account between the United States and the State of Alabama...

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