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LOISTITUTION OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. 79
during the above period of time; nor to affect, prejudicially, private rights
which may have grown up under such rules and regulations; nor to invali-
date officiac acts, not in aid of the rebellion against the United States during
said period of time. The Legislature which assembled in the city of Austin
on the 6th day of August, A. D., 1866, was provisional only, and its acts are
to be respected only so far as they were not in violation of the Constitution
and laws of the United States, or where not intended to reward those who
participated in the late rebellion; or to discriminate between citizens
on account of race or color; or to operate prejudicially to any class of
citizens.
SE. 34. All debts created by the so-called State of Texas, from and after
the 28th day of January, 1861, and prior to the 5th day of August, 1865. were
and are null and void; and the Legislature is prohibited from making any
provision for the acknowledgment or payment of such debts. All unpaid
balances, whether of salary, per diem or monthly allowance, due to employees
of the State, who were in the service thereof on the said 28th day of January,
1861, civil or military, and who gave their aid, countenance or support to the
rebellion, then inaugurated against the government of the United States, or
turned their arms against the said government, thereby forfeited the stns
severally due them. All the ten per cent. warrants issued for military services
and exchanged during the rebellion at the treasury for non-interest warrants,
are hereby declared to have been fully paid and discharged; provided,.that
any loyal person, or his orher heirs or legal representative, may, by proper
legal proceedings, to be commenced within two years after the acceptance of
this constitution by the Congress of the United States, show proof in avoidance
of any contract made, or revise or annulany decree or judgment rendered, since
the said 28th day of January, 1861, when, through fraud practiced, or threats
of violence used towards such persons, no adequate consideration for the
contract has been received: or when, through absence from the State of such
person, or through political prejudice against such person, the decision com-
plained of was not fair or impartial.
SEC. 85. Within five years after the acceptance of this constitution, the
laws, civil and criminal, shall be revised, digested, arranged and published in
such manner as the Legislature shall direct; and a like revision, digest and
publication shall be made every ten years thereafter.
SEc. 36. No lottery shall be authorized by this State, and the buying and
selling of lottery tickets within this State is prohibited.
SEC. 37. No divorce shall be granted by the Legislature.
SEc. 38. The duration of all offices not fixed by this constitution shall
never exceed four years.
SEC. 39. *No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in the house or
within the enclosure of ahy individual, without the consent of the owner;
nor in time of war, but in a manner prescribed by law.
SEc. 40. All sales of landed property, made under decrees of courts in this
State, shall be offered to bidders in lots of not less than ten nor more than
forty acres, except in towns or cities--including sales for taxes.
SEc. 41. All civil officers of this State shall be removable by an address of
two-thirds of the members elect to each house of the Legislature, except those
whose removal is otherwise provided for by this constitution.
SEC. 42. The accounting officers of this State shall neither draw nor pay
a warrant upon the treasury, in favor of any person, for salary or compensa-
tion, as agent, officer or appointee, who holds, at the same time, any other
office or position of honor, trust or profit under the State, or the United States,
except as prescribed in this constitution.
SEC. 43. The statutes of limitation of civil suits were suspended by the
so-called act of secession of the 28th of January, 1861, and shall be considered
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The Texas Almanac for 1870, and Emigrant's Guide to Texas, book, January 1870; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123775/m1/81/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.