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Joint Resolutions in response to the Governor's Message on Kansas Affairs. 1857 283 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0087 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAPTER 25. JOINT 1RESOL UTIONY proposing an amendment to the State Constitution. Be it Re8olved by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the 3rd Section of the 10th Article of the Constitu- tion of the State shall be so amended as to read as follows, Viz : SECTION ;. All public lands, which have heretofore, or which may hereafter be granted for public schools to the various counties in this State, may be sold by the County Courts of each county to which the lands belong, or by such tribunals as may succeed to their jurisdiction, by consent of a majority of the legal voters in safd counties, and under such general rules as the Legislature may, from time to time, pre- scribe. Provided, that the principal of the proceeds of the sale of such lands shall be retained, and invested as a perma- nent school fund for the counties owning the same, aid the interest only shall be used for educational purposes. Approved, February 16, 1858. CHAPTER 26. JOINT PESOL UTIONS in resplonse to the Governor's Mes- sage on Kansas Affairs. WHEREAS, There exists, and has existed, a violent determi- nation on the part of a portion of the inhabitants of the Territory of Kansas, to exclude, by force, the citizens of' the slaveholding States from a just, equal and peacefil par- ticipation in the use and enjoyment of the compinon prolper- ty and Territory of the members of the confederacy ; And, lihereas, This determination, owing to the state of political feeling in the Northern States of the confederacy, operating upon the Federal Govrnmnent, may become efic- tual, and the exclusion perpetual-Therefore,

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