Laws Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of TexasTelegraph Office, 1864 |
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... house of each county , in this State , on the last Monday in every month for the probate of wills , the granting of letters testamentary , of administration , and of guardianship , and the transaction of all business grow- ing out of ...
... house of each county , in this State , on the last Monday in every month for the probate of wills , the granting of letters testamentary , of administration , and of guardianship , and the transaction of all business grow- ing out of ...
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... House , shall be sufficient evidence to the Comp- troller , upon which he shall audit the claims and draw his warrants upon the Treasury for the respective amounts . SEC . 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its ...
... House , shall be sufficient evidence to the Comp- troller , upon which he shall audit the claims and draw his warrants upon the Treasury for the respective amounts . SEC . 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its ...
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... houses , papers and possessions , from all unreasonable seizures or sea [ r ] ches ; and no searches and warrant to search any place , or to seize any person or thing , shall issue , without describing them as near as may be , nor ...
... houses , papers and possessions , from all unreasonable seizures or sea [ r ] ches ; and no searches and warrant to search any place , or to seize any person or thing , shall issue , without describing them as near as may be , nor ...
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... Houses . SEC . 12. The House of Representatives , when assembled , shall Organization elect a Speaker and its other officers , and the Senate shall choose a of the two President for the time being , and its other officers . Each House ...
... Houses . SEC . 12. The House of Representatives , when assembled , shall Organization elect a Speaker and its other officers , and the Senate shall choose a of the two President for the time being , and its other officers . Each House ...
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... House shall be kept open . Open doors SEC . 19. Neither House shall without the consent of the other , adjourn for more than three days : nor to any other place than that Adjourn in which they may be sitting without the concurrence of ...
... House shall be kept open . Open doors SEC . 19. Neither House shall without the consent of the other , adjourn for more than three days : nor to any other place than that Adjourn in which they may be sitting without the concurrence of ...
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Page 49 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 54 - The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six years ; and each senator shall have one vote. 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes.
Page 35 - ... with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by twothirds of the members present it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays...
Page 60 - President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the limits of the Confederate States, as they may exist at the time of his election.
Page 62 - No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States...
Page 46 - States ; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ; 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...
Page 39 - The legislature may, at any time after the approval of such law by the people, if no debt shall have been contracted in pursuance thereof, repeal the same ; and may at any time, by law, forbid the contracting of any further debt or liability under such law ; but the tax imposed by such...
Page 55 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 56 - To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce; except for the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, and...
Page 38 - All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property; and laws shall be passed more clearly defining the rights of the wife, in relation as well to her separate property, as to that held in common with her husband. Laws shall also be passed providing for the registration of the wife's separate property.