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CONSTITUTION OF THIE STATE OF TEXAS. 77
rights of property by adverse possession, or law of limitation, of less than
seven years from and after the removal of each and all of their respective
leg~li disabilities.
,F. 15. The Legislature shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to
p,:,,et by law, from forced sale, a certain portion of the property of all heads
Sfanilies. The homestead of a family, not to exceed 200 acres of land, (not
included in a city, town or village.) or any city, town or village lot or lots,
r.o to exceed $5,000 in value, at the time of their destination as a homestead,
and without reference to the value of any improvements thereon, shall not be
suelject to forced sale for debts, except they be for the purchase thereof, for
the taxes assessed thereon, or for labor and materials expended thereon; nor
shall the owner, if a married man, be at liberty to alienate the same, unless
by the consent of the wife, and in such manner as may be prescribed by law.
SEc. 16. The Legislature shall provide in what cases officers shall con-
tinue to perform the duties of their offices until their successor shall be dI:;J
quaified.
SFX. 17. Every law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace bur ,::e
object, and that shall be expressed in the title.
SEc. 18. No law shall be revised or amended by reference to its title; but,
in such cases, the act revised, or section amended, shall be re-enacted, and
published at length.
SEC. 1R. Taxation shall be equal and uniform throughout the State. All
property in the State/shall be taxed in proportion to its value, to be ascer-
tained as directed by law, except such property as two-thirds of both houses
of the Legislature may think proper to exempt from taxation. The Legislay
ture shall have power to levy an income tax, and to tax all persons pursuing
any occupation, trade or profession; provided, that the term occupation.shall
not be construed to apply to pursuitseither agricultural or mechanical.
SEC. 20. The annual' assessments made upon landed property shall be a
lien upon the property, and interest shall run thereon upon each year's
assessment.
SEc. 21. Landed property shall not be sold for the taxes due thereon,
except under a decree of some court of competent jurisdiction.
SEc. 22. Provisions shall be made by the first Legislature for the condem-
nation and sale of all lands for taxes due thereon ; and, every five years there-
a'ter, of all lands, the taxes upon which have not been paid to that date.
Sc 23. It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide by law, in all
cases where State or county debt is created, adequate means for the payment
of the c-irent interest, and two per cent. as a sinking fund for the redemption
of the principal ; and all such laws shall be irrepealable until principal and
interest are fully paid.
SEC. 24. The Legislature shall, at the first session thereof, and may at any
subsequent session, establish new counties for the convenience of the inhabi-
tants of such new county or counties: Provided, That no new county shall be
established which shall reduce the county or counties, or either of them, from
which it shall be taken, to a less area than nine hundred square miles, unless
by consent of two-thirds of the Legislature; nor shall any county be laid off
of less contents. Every new county, as to the right'of suffrage and'repre-
sentation, shall be considered as part of the county or countiesfrom which it
was taken, until entitled, by numbers, to the right of separate representation.
11o new county shall be laid off with less than one hundred and fifty qualified
jurors, resident at the time therein; nor where the county (or counties) from
which the new county is proposed to be taken, would thereby be reduced
below that number of qualified jurors; and in all cases where, from the want
of qualified jurors, or other cause, the courts cannot properly be held in any
county, it shall be the duty of the district judge to certify such fact to the
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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/m1/79/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.