Р PERMITS FOR EXPORTATION OF COTTON, Punishment for granting, buying or selling.. 12 PENAL CODE, See "Code, Penal." PROPERTY, Pretended ownership over not to be exercised by a slave.. 4 Valuation of, when impressed.. ཚབ་ 16 Ꭱ RAILROAD COMPANIES, Act amended, authorizing the reception of interest on the Bonds of 9 REGIMENTS, 1ST, 4TH AND 5TH, Return of requested... 17 REPORTER OF THE DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT, To be furnished Stationery.. 8 Act providing for the support of families and dependents of, amended... 8 Appropriations for, to be paid in Treasury Warrants.. Joint Resolution to provide for the relief of the sick and wounded in Arkansas and Louisiana....... Return of soldiers east of the Mississippi River requested.. Part of, arising from sale of cotton, appropriated as a sinking fund, &c..... THE STATE OF TEXAS, DEPARTMENT OF STATE.} I, ROBERT J. TOWNES, Secretary of State of the State of Texas, do certify that I have compared the foregoing Laws and Joint Resolutions of the Extra Session of the Tenth Legislature with the originals now on file in this Department, and that they are true copies of such originals. I further certify, that the Extra Session of the Tenth Legislature of the State of Texas, in compliance with the Proclamation of the Governor, assembled on Monday, the ninth day of May, A. D. 1864, and adjourned on the twenty-eighth day of May, in the same year. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name, and caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed, at Austin, this 20th of July, A. D. 1864. R. J. TOWNES, Secretary of State. We, the people of the State of Texas, acknowledging, with gratitude, the grace of God, in permitting us to make choice of our form Preamble. of government, do ordain and establish this Constitution : ARTICLE I. BILL OF RIGHTS. That the general, great and essential principles of Liberty and Free object of Bill Government may be recognized and established, we declare that of Rights. SECTION 1. All political power is inherent in the people, and all Political free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for power. their benefit; and they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their form of government, in such manner as they may think expedient; and, therefore, no government or authority can exist or exercise power within the State of Texas, without the consent of the people thereof previously given; nor after that consent be withdrawn. SEC. 2. All freemen, when they form a social compact, have Equal rights asserted--exequal rights; and no man, or set of men, is entitled to exclusive sep- clusive priarate public emoluments or privileges, but in consideration of public vileges services. nied. de SEC. 3. No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification No religious to any office or public trust in this State. test. SEC. 4. All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences: no man shall be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent: no human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion; and no preference shall ever be given Religious liby law to any religious societies or mode of worship. But it shall be toleration. the duty of the Legislature to pass such laws as [may] shall be necessary to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of their own mode of public worship. *The words, or letters enclosed in brackets, are found upon the original roll in pencil, and may have been intended as corrections, but by whom made does not appear. berty and |