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CONSTITUTION. 86
lution in 1835, until the 1st of January, 1837; and also to the surviving
signers of the Declaration of Independence of Texas; and to the surviving
widows continuing unmarried of such soldiers and signers; provided, that
no such pension be granted except to those in indigent circumstances,
proof of which shall be made before the County Court of the county where
the applicant resides, in such manner as may be provided by law.
SEC. 56. The Legislature shall have no power to appropriate any of the
public money for the establishment and maintenance of a bureau of immigration,
or for any purpose of bringing immigrants to this State.
SEC. 57. Three millions acres of the public domain are hereby appropriated
and set apart for the purpose of erecting a new State capitol and other
necessary public buildings at the seat of government, said lands to be sold
under the direction of the Legislature; and the Legislature shall pass suitable
laws to carry this section into effect.
ARTICLE XVII.
MODE OF AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION OF THIS STATE.
SECTION 1. The Legislature, at any biennial session, by a vote of twothirds
of all the members elected to each House, to be entered by yeas and
nays on the journals, may propose amendments to the Constitution, to be
voted upon by the qualified electors for members of the Legislature, which
proposed amendments shall be duly published once a week for four weeks,
commencing at least three months before an election, the time of which shall
be specified by the Legislature, in one weekly newspaper of each county, in
which such a newspaper may be published; and it shall be the duty of the
several returning officers of said election to open a poll for, and make returns
to the Secretary of State, of the number of legal votes cast at said election
for and against said amendments; and if more than one be proposed, then
the number of votes cast for and against each of them; and if it shall appear
from said return that a majority of the votes cast have been cast in
favor of any amendment, the said amendment so receiving a majority of the
votes cast shall become a part of this Constitution, and proclamation shall
be made by the Governor thereof.
Done by the delegates of the people of Texas, in Convention assembled,
in the city of Austin, on this the twenty-fourth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
In testimony whereof we hereunto subscribe our names:
EDWARD B. PICKETT,
President of the Convention.
LEIGH CHALMERS,
Secretary of the Convention.