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ABSENT-2 act entitled act to amend Adopted amend article Amend by striking Amend section ation AUSTIN Bill read second Bill read third Bills have carefully Boren Bowser Chair laid Chairman committee amendment COMMITTEE ROOM constitutional rule requiring courts of civil Dickson entitled An act EXCUSED-3 following vote Greer House bill House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Lawhon laws in conflict Legislature lieu thereof Lost M. M. Crane March 29 McComb McKinney mendation ment mittee motion of Senator NAYS-none passed Pending President Presler read on three recom referred Senate bill repeal all laws report it back resolution Revised Civil Statutes Roger Q rule requiring bills Senate met pursuant Senator Atlee Senator Dean Senator Douglass Senator Goss Senator Imboden moved Senator Jester Senator Kearby Senator Lewis Senator Steele Senator Swayne Senator Tips Senator Yoakum Shelburne Simpson substitute Texas third reading three several days tion Travis county Whitaker Woods word
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Page 387 - That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the advancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign, and her Dominions...
Page 395 - ... resolved by the senate and house of representatives, that the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, be authorized to close the present session by adjourning their respective houses on the day of...
Page 11 - No corporation shall issue stock or bonds, except for money paid, labor done, or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
Page 11 - No railroad corporation shall issue any stock or bonds, except for money, labor or property actually received and applied to the purposes for which such corporation was created; and all stock dividends, and other fictitious increase of the capital stock or indebtedness of any such corporation, shall be void. The capital stock of no railroad corporation shall be increased for any purpose, except upon giving sixty days...
Page 16 - Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free government, and shall never be allowed; nor shall the law of primogeniture or entailments ever be in force in this state.
Page 330 - Judiciary ; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little tomorrow and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped...
Page 149 - He shall have the right to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, and to have a copy thereof.
Page 371 - And no domestic animal liable to become infected with the disease, or capable of communicating the same, shall be permitted to enter or leave the district, premises or grounds so quarantined, except by authority of the Commission.
Page 537 - The General Assembly shall have the power to alter, revoke, or annul any charter of incorporation now existing and revocable at the adoption of this Constitution, or any that may hereafter be created, whenever, in their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of this Commonwealth, in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be done to the corporators.
Page 641 - Officer on the trial may rule all questions of evidence and incidental questions, which ruling shall stand as the judgment of the Senate, unless some member of the Senate shall ask that a formal vote be taken thereon, in which case it shall be submitted to the Senate for decision; or he may at his option, in the first instance, submit any such question to a vote of the members of the Senate.