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CONSTITUTION OF TEXAS. 40
cast at said election, for and against said amendment, and if more than one be pro-
posed, then the number of legal votes cast for and against each of them; and if it
shall appear, from said return, that a majority of the votes cast upon said proposed
amendment or amendments have been cast in favor of the same, and two thirds
of each House of the Legislature, at the next regular session thereafter, shall ratify
said proposed amendment or amendments, voted on by the people, the same shall
be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the Constitution of the State of
Texas; provided, that the said proposed amendments shall, at each of said sessions,
have been read on three several days in each House of the Legislature, and the vote
thereon shall have been taken by yeas and nays; and provided further, that the
rule in the above proviso shall never be suspended by either of said Houses.
ARTICLE VIII.-tREEDMEN.
SECTION 1. African slavery, as it heretofore existed, having been terminated with-
in this State, by the Government of the United States, by force of arms, and its re-
establishment being prohibited by the amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, it is declared that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a pun-
ishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist in
this State; and Africans and their descendants shall be protected in their rights of
person and property by appropriate legislation; they shall have the right to contract
and be contracted with; to sue and be sued ; to acquire, hold, and transmit property;
and all criminal prosecutions against them shall be conducted in the same manner
as prosecutions, for like offenses, against the white race, and they shall be subject
to like penalties.
SEc. 2. Africans and their descendants shall not be prohibited, on account of
their color or race, from testifying orally, as witnesses, in any case, civil or crimi-
nal, involving the right of, injury to, or crime against any of them in person or
property, under the same rules of evidence that may be applicable to the white
race ; the credibility of their testimony to be determined by the court or jury hear-
ing the same; and the Legislature shall have power to authorize them to testify as
witnesses in all other cases, under such regulations as may be prescribed, as to facts
hereafter occurring.
ARTICLE IX.--IMhnPEAc T.
SECTIoN 1. The power of impeachment shall be vested in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
SEc. 2. Impeachment of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Attorney-General,
Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller, and of the Judges of the District Courts,
shall be tried by the Senate.
SEa. 3. Impeachments of Judges of the Supreme Court shall be tried by the Sen-
ate. When sitting as a Co.urt of Impeachment, the Senators shall be upon oath or
affirmation; and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds
of the Senators present.
SEc. 4. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall extend only to removal from
office, and disqualification from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit, under
this State; but the parties convicted shall, nevertheless, be subject to indictment,
trial, and punishment according to law.
SEc. 5. All officers against whom articles of impeachment may be preferred, shall
be suspended from the exercise of the duties of their office, during the pendency of
such impeachment: The appointing power may make a provisional appointment to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the suspension of an officer, until the decision on the
impeachment.
SEc. 6. The Legislature shall provide for the trial, punishment, and removal from
office, of all other officers of the State by indictment or otherwise.
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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/m1/47/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.