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CONSTITUTION OF TEXAS. 43
her husband. Laws shall also be passed providing for the registration of the wife's
separate property.
SEC. 20. The rights of property and action, which have been acquired under the
Constitution and laws of the Republic of Texas, shall not be divested; nor shall any
rights or actions, which have been divested, barred, or declared null and void, by,
the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Texas, be reinvested, revised or re-
instated, by this Constitution; but the same shall remain in precisely the same situ-
ation which they were before the adoption of this Constitution.
SEc. 21. All claims, locations, surveys, grants and titles to land, which are de-
clared null and void by the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, are, and the
same shall remain forever null and void.
SEc. 22. The Legislature shall have power to protect by law from forced sale,
a certain portion of the property of all heads of families. The homestead of a family
not to exceed two hundred acres of land, (not included in a town or city,) or any
town or city lot or lots, in value not to exceed two thousand dollars, shall not be
subject to forced sale for any debts hereafter contracted, nor shall the owner, if a
married man, be at liberty to alienate the same, unless by the consent of the wife,
in such manner as the Legislature may hereafter point out.
SEC. 23. The Legislature shall provide in what cases officers shall continue to
perform the duties of their offices, until their successors shall be duly qualified.
SEC. 24. Every law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace but one object, and
that shall be expressed in the title.
SEc. 25. No law shall be revised or amended by reference to its title; but in such
case the act revised, or section amended, shall be reenacted and published at length.
SEC. 26. No person shall hold, or exercise at the same time, more than one civil
office of emolument, except that of Justice of the Peace.
SEc. 27. Taxation shall be equal and uniform throughout the State. All property
in this State shall be taxed in proportion to its value, to be ascertained as directed
by law, except such property as two thirds of both Houses of the Legislature may
think proper to exempt from taxation. The Legislature shall have power to lay an
income tax, and to tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade, or profession;
provided, that the term occupation shall not be construed to apply to pursuits,
either agricultural or mechanical.
SEC. 28. The Legislature shall have power to provide by law for exemption from
taxation, two hundred and fifty dollars' worth of the household furniture or other
property belonging to each family in this State.
SEC. 29. -The Assessor and Collector of taxes shall be appointed in such manner,
and under such regulations, as the Legislature may direct.
SEC. 30. No corporate body shall hereafter be created, renewed, or extended with
banking or discounting privileges.
SEC. 31. No private corporation shall be created, unless the bill creating it shall
be passed by two thirds of both Houses of the Legislature; and two thirds of the
Legislature shall have power to revoke and repeal all private corporations, by mak-
ing compensation for the franchise. And the State shall not be part owner of the
stock or property belonging to any corporation.
SEc. 32. The Legislature shall prohibit, by law, individuals from issuing bills,
checks, promissory notes, or other paper to circulate as money.
SEc. 33. The aggregate amount of debts hereafter contracted by the Legislature,
shall never exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, except in case of war,
to repel invasion, or suppress insurrections. And in no case shall any amount b
borrowed, except by a vote of two thirds of both Houses of the Legislature.
SEc. 34. The Legislature may, from time to time, establish new counties for the
convenience of the inhabitants of such new county or counties ; provided, that nq new
county shall be established which shall reduce the county or counties, or either of
them, from which it shall be taken, to a less area than nine hundred square miles,
unless by consent of two thirds of the Legislature, nor shall any county be organized
of less contents; provided, furtdlr, that all counties heretofore created are hereby
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The Glaveston News. The Texas Almanac for 1867 with Statistics, Descriptive and Biographical Sketches, etc., Relating to Texas., book, December 1866; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123772/m1/45/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.