A Digest of the General Statute Laws of the State of Texas: To which are Subjoined the Repealed Laws of the Republic and State of Texas, By, Through, Or Under which Rights Have Accrued : Also, the Colonization Laws of Mexico, Coahuila, and Texas, which Were in Force Before the Declaration of Independence by Texas

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Oldham, Williamson S., and George W. White, Compilers. A Digest of the General Statute Laws of the State of Texas: To Which Are Subjoined the Repealed Laws of the Republic and State of Texas, By, Through, or Under Which Rights Have Accrued; Also, the Colonization Laws of Mexico, Coahuila and Texas, Which Were in Force Before the Declaration of Independence by Texas. Pubished by Authority of the Legislature. Austin: Printed by John Marshall & co., 1859. iv, 836, [3] pp. Reprint available October 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-438-X. Cloth. $150. * With unabridged texts of the Articles of Annexation, the constitutions of Texas and the United States and a through index. This was the third compilation of Texas laws and the final compilation published before the Civil War. It is thus an ideal complement to the Reconstruction-era Digest of the Laws of Texas, 1754-1873 by George W. Paschel, which was published in 1874. Both titles are listed in John H. Jenkins' Basic Texas Books: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works for a Research Library.

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Page 1 - Executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. 5. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers, and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
Page 4 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Page 15 - The powers of the government of the State of Texas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit : Those which are legislative to one, those which are executive to another, and those which are judicial to another...
Page 55 - ... beginning at the mouth of the Sabine river, and running west along the Gulf of Mexico three leagues from land, to the mouth of the Rio Grande, thence up the principal stream of said river to its source, thence due north to the forty-second degree of north latitude, thence along the boundary line as defined in the treaty between the United States and Spain, to the beginning...
Page 22 - ... journal and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, twothirds of the members present...
Page 276 - ... shall possess all the powers, perform all the duties, and be subject to all the obligations and...
Page 12 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Page 12 - That Congress doth consent that the territory, properly included within, and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State, to be called the " State of Texas," with a republican form of government, to be adopted by the people of said Republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing government, in order that the same may be admitted as one of the...
Page 71 - To have and to hold the above described premises, together with all and singular the rights and appurtenances thereto, in anywise belonging, unto the said , his heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators to warrant and forever defend all and singular the said premises unto the said , his heirs and assigns, against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof.
Page 22 - ... such cases, the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays...

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