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TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION. 367
Article VI.r-(Continued.); Article VII.
Sec. 3-a. Only Those Who Have Rendered
Property for Taxation May Vote in Bond
Elections.-When an election is held by any
county, or any number of counties. or any
political subdivision of the State, or any
political subdivision of a county, or any de-
fined district now or hereafter to be de-
scribed and defined within the State and
which may or may not include towns, vil-
lages or municipal corporations, or any city,
town or village, for the purpose of issuing
bonds or otherwise lending credit, or expend-
ing money or assuming any debt, only quali-
fied electors who own taxable property in the
State, county, political subdivision, district,
city, town or village where such election is
held, and who have duly rendered the same
for.taxation, shall be qualified to vote and all
electors shall vote in the election precinct of
their residence.
[Note.-The foregoing Sec. 3-a of Art. VI, an
amendment, was added for the purpose of limit-
ing voters participating in bond elections to those
who have rendered property for taxation, Sub-
mitted by the Forty-second Legislature (1931) and
adopted in an election Nov. 8, 1932; proclaimed
Jan. 9, 1933]
Sec. 4. Election by Ballot; Registration in
Cities of 10,000 Inhabitants or More.-In all
elections by the people the vote shall be by
ballot, and the Legislature shall provide for
the numbering of tickets and make such other
regulations as may be necessary to detect
and punish fraud and preserve the purity of
the ballot box; and the Legislature may pro-
vide by law for the registration of all voters
in all cities containing a population of ten
thousand inhabitants or more.
[Note.-The foregoing Sec. 4 of Art VI is an
amended section, the provision for the registration
of voters in cities of 10,000 or more population
having been added. The original section provided
that "No law shall ever be enacted requiring a
registrar on of the voters of this State." Sub-
mitted b Twenty-second Legislature (1891), rati-
fied in n election Aug. 11, 1891, and declared
adopted Sept. 22, 1891.]1
Sec. 5. Voters Privileged From Arrest.-
Voters shall, in all cases except treason,
felony or breach of the peace, be privileged
from arrest during their attendance at elec-
tions and in going to and returning there-
from.
ARTICLE Vil.-EDUCATION-THE
PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS.
Sec. 1. Public Schools to Be Established.-
A general diffusion of knowledge being essen-
tial 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.
Sec. 2. Provisions Governing the Levy and
Collection of Taxes for the Support of the
Public Free Schools.-All funds, lands and
other property heretofore set apart and ap-
propriated 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, of any nature whatsoever,
one half of the public domain of the State,
and all sums of money that may come to the
State from the sale of any portion of the same
shall constitute a perpetual public school
fund.
Sec. 3. School Taxes.-One fourth of the
revenue derived from the State occupation
taxes and a poll tax of one ($1.00) dollar on
every inhabitant of this State, between the
ages of 21 and 60 years, shall be set apart
annually for the benefit of the public free
schools; and in addition thereto, there shallbe levied and collected an annual ad valorem
State tax of such an amount not to exceed
35c on the one hundred ($100.00) dollars
valuation, as, with the available school fund
arising from all other sources, will be suffi-
cient to maintain and support the public
schools of this State for a period of not less
than six months in each year, and it shall be
the duty of the State Board of Education to
set aside a sufficient amount out of the said
tax to provide free textbooks for the use of
children attending the public free schools of
this State; provided, however, that should the
limit of taxation herein named be insufficient
the deficit may be met by appropriation
from the general funds of the State, and the
Legislature may also provide for the forma-
tion of school districts by general laws, and
all such school districts may embrace parts of
two or more counties. And the Legislature
shall be authorized to pass laws for the as-
sessment and collection of taxes in all said
districts and for the management and control
of the public school or schools of such dis-
tricts, whether such districts are composed
of territory wholly within a county or in
parts of two or more counties. And the Legis-
lature may authorize an additional ad valo-
rem tax to be levied and collected within all
school districts heretofore formed or here-
after formed, for the further maintenance of
public free schools, and for the erection and
equipment of school buildings therein: pro-
vided, that a majority of the qualified prop-
erty taxpaying voters of the district voting
at an election to be held for that purpose
shall vote such tax not to exceed in any one
year $1 on the $100 valuation of the property
subject to taxation in such district, but the
limitation upon the amount of school district
tax herein authorized shall not apply to
incorporated cities or towns constituting sep-
arate and independent school districts, nor to
independent or common school districts cre-
ated by general or special law.
[Note.-The foregoing Sec. 3 or Art. VII is an
amended section, having been altered six tunes:
(1) To authorize a State ad valorem school tax of
not more than 20c, and further to authorize crea-
tion by Legislature of school districts for local
taxation not to exceed 20c. Submitted by Eight-
eenth Legislature (1883), ratified in election Aug.
14, 1883, and declared adopted Sept. 25, 1883.
(2) To authorize maximum tax in school districts
of 50c. Submitted by Thirtieth Legislature (1907).
ratified in an election Nov. 3, 1908, and declared
adopted Feb. 2, 1909. (3) To authorize intercounty
school districts and authorizing Legislature to pass
laws for management and control of districts.
Submitted by Thirty-first Legislature' (1909), rati-
fied in an election Aug. 3, 1909, and adopted
Sept. 24, 1909. (4) To increase maxium tax for
State school purposes from 20c to 35c and provide
for free textbooks. Submitted by Thirty-fifth
Legislature (1917) and adopted at election of
Nov. 5, 1918. (5) To remove 50c limit on school
district tax submitted by Thirty-sixth Legisla-,
ture (1919) and adopted at elecion of Nov. 2,
1920. (6) To eliminate the provision authorizing
the Legislature to create districts by special law.
Submitted by Thirty-ninth Legislature (1925) and
ratified in an election Nov. 2, 1926, and pro-
claimed Jan. 20, 1927.]
Sec. 3-a. County Line Districts; Validation;
Bonds; Taxation.-Every school district here-
tofore formed, whether formed under the
general law or by special act, and whether
the territory embraced within its boundaries
lies wholly within a single county or partly
in two or more counties, is hereby declared
to be, and from its formation to have been,
a valid and lawful district.
All bonds heretofore issued by any such
districts, which have been approved by the
Attorney General and registered by the
Comptroller are hereby declared to be, and
at the time of their issuance to have been,
issued in conformity with the Constitution
and laws of this State, and any and all such
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