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88 TEXAS ALMANAC.-1947-1948.
Powers and limitations: Public improvements,
2, 9; Seawalls, etc., 7, 8; Taxation, 6, 7, 9,
10; Grants to private corporations, 3. See
also III, 51-53; XVI, 8.)
ARTICLE XII.-PRIVATE CORPORA-
TIONS ...............................Page 78
ARTICLE XIII,-SPANISH LAND
TITLES .............................Page 78
ARTICLE XIV.-PUBLIC LANDS AND LAND
OFFICE .............................Page 79
ARTICLE XV. - IMPEACHMENT, REMOVAL
FROM OFFICE ..................... Page 80
Impeachment vested in House, 1; Proceedings
before Senate, 2-5; Who may be impeached,
2, Oath of Senators, 3; Penalty, 4, Suspen-
sion pending trial, 5; Removal of District
Judges, 6, 7; Address, 8.
ARTICLE XVI.-GENERAL PRO-
VISIONS .................. Page 80
Public Office: Oath, 1; Bribery, 2, 41; Duels,
4; Residence, 9, 14, Salary deductions, 10;
Federal officers and state office, 12; Only
one office at a time, 33, 40; Holdover, 17;
Interest in public printing, 21; Vacancy, 27;
Interest in public print, 21, Vacancy, 27;
boards of regents, etc., 30, 30-a; Civil Serv-
ice, 30-b; Insurance Commissioner, 38; County
Treasurer and surveyor, 44, No exemption
from public service, 43; Prison board, 58;
Fees, 61.
Suffrage: Felons disfranchised, 2; Duels, 4:;
Bribery, 5; Conservation and reclamation dis-
tricts, 58-c.
Miscellaneous Legislative Functions: [See
(Mandatory)", "(Permissive)" and "(Re-
strictive)" below Also Art III]
Miscellaneous Legislative Functions (Manda-
tory): Oath, 1, Suffrage, 2, Fines and labor,
3; Salary deductions, 10; Usury, 11; Arbitra-
tion, 13; Married women's rights, 15, Banks,16; Jurors, 19; Liquor, 20; Roads, convict
labor, 24, Drawbacks and rebates, 25; Bar-
ratry, 29, Governing boards, 30; Tenure ok
officials, 30, 30-a, 30-b; Forts, 34, Labor,
public w9rks, 8, 35, Pay for teachers, 36;
Mechanics lien, 37, County Treasurer and
Surveyor, 44; Records, 45; Militia, 46; Ex-
emption from forced sale, 49; Lunatics, 54;
State Capitol, 57; Conservation, 59. (See also
Art. III.)
Miscellaneous Legislative Functions (Permis-
sive): Fences, 22; Livestock, 23; Physicians,
31; Health, vital statistics, 32, Insurance
Commissioner, 38; Memorials, historical, 39;
Inebriate asylum, 42, Pensions, 55; Centen-
nial, 60; Retirement, disability and death
compensation funds, 62. (See also Art. III).
Miscellaneous Legislative Functions (Restric-
tive): Private appropriations, 6; Warrants.
paper money, 7 Banking, 16; Garnishment
of wages, 28; Folding more than one office,
40; Homestead rights, 50-52; Immigration,
56 Reclamation bonds, 59-c. (See also Art.
Property: Of wife, 15; Vested interests, 18;
Selling forts to United States, 34; Mechanic's
lien, 37, Homestead, 50-52; Capitol syndicate
grant, 57.
Military service: Exemption, 43, 47; Militia,
46; Forts, 34, (See also Veting, VI, 1).
Former laws: Vested rights, 18; Continued, 48;
Processes and writs, 53.
Offenses: Affecting suffrage, 2; Fines and la-
bor, 3; Duels, 4; Bribery, 5, 41; Usury, 11;
Liquor, 20. Convict labor, 24; Drawbacks and
rebates, 25, Homicide, civil action for, 26;
Barratry, 29; Malpractice, 31, Drunkenness,
42.
ARTICLE XVII.-MODE OF AMEND-
MENT ... ...... .. ...... ......... Page 86Texas Declaration of Independence-Signers
The Declaration of Independence of the
Republic of Texas was adopted by the dele-
gates of the people of Texas, in general
convention at the town of Washington-on-the-
Brazos, March 2, 1836. (See p. 100 ) The text
follows, with the names of the signers at the
end of the text:
When a government has ceased to protect
the lives, liberty and property of the people
from whom its legitimate powers are derived,
and for the advancement of whose happiness
it was instituted, and so far from being a
guarantee for the enjoyment of their inesti-
mable and inalienable rights, becomes an in-
strument in the hands of evil rulers for their
oppression; when the Federal Republican
Constitution of their country, which they
have sworn to support, no longer has a sub-
stantial existence, and the whole nature of
their government has been forcibly changed
without their consent, from a restricted Fed-
erative Republic, composed of sovereign
states, to a consolidated central military des-
potism, in which every interest is disregarded
ut that of the army and the priesthood, both
the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the ever-
ready minions of power, and the usual in-
struments of tyrants; when, long after the
spirit of the Constitution has departed, mod-
eration is at length so far lost by those in
power, that even the semblance of freedom is
removed, and the forms themselves of the
Constitution discontinued, and so far from
their petitions and remonstrances being re-
garded, the agents who bear them are thrown
into dungeons and mercenary armies sent
forth to force a new government upon them
at the point of the bayonet; when, in conse-
quence of such acts of malfeasance ahd abdi-
cation on the part of the government, anarchy
prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its
original elements in such a crisis, the first
law of nature, the right of self-preservation,
the inherent and inalienable right of the peo-
ple to appeal to first principles, and taketheir political affairs into their own hands
in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right toward
themselves, and a sacred obligation to their
posterity, to abolish such government, and
create another in its stead, calculated to res-
cue them from impending dangers, and to
secure their future welfare and happiness.
Nations, as well .as individuals, are amen-
able for their acts to the public opinion of
mankind. A statement of a part of our griev-
ances is therefore submitted to an impartial
world, in justification of the hazardous but
unavoidable step now taken, of severing our
political connection with the Mexican people,
and assuming an independert attitude among
the nations of the earth.
The Mexican Government, by its coloniza-
tion laws, invited and induced the Anglo-
American population of Texas to colonize its
wilderness, under the pledged faith of a writ-
ten Constitution, that they should continue to
enjoy that constitutional liberty and repub-
lcan government to which they had been
habituated in the land of their birth, the
United States of America. In this expectation
they have been cruelly disappointed, inas-
much as the Mexican Nation has acquiesced
in the late changes made in the government
by Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who,
having overturned the Constitution ef his
country, now offers us the cruel alternative,
either to abandon our homes, acquired by so
many privations, or submit to the most intol-
erable of all tyranny, the combined despotism
of the sword and the priesthood.
It hath sacrificed our welfare to the State
of Coahulla, by which our interests have been
continually depressed, through a jealous and
partial course of legislation, carried on at a
far-distant seat of government, by a hostile
majority, in an unknown tongue; and this,
too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in
the humblest terms for the establishment of
a separate state government, and have, in
accordance with the provisions of the National
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