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48 TIHE TEXAS ALMANAC.
whole police force to hold office for four years unless sooner removed; any of
the members being subject to removal by the governor, or chief of State
police, with the approval of the governor, at any time, for malfeasance, in-
competency, or disobedience of orders. The same mileage and other compensa-
tion for conveying prisoners, allowed by law to sheriffs, being allowed in
addition to their regular pay, when a prisoner is conveyed beyond the county
where arrested. Each officer and private to provide one good horse, and such
arms and amiaunition as the chief, with the approval of the governor, may
prescribe. All sheriffs, deputies, constables, marshals, and their deputies,
with police of cities and towns, to be considered as part of the State police,
subject to the control of the governor and chief, who, under their direction,
may at any time be called upon to act in concert with the State police in
suppressing crime, etc. The State police may be detailed for duty in uniform
or employed as detectives, and shall be entitled to receive rewards offered by
the governor, but not from private corporations or individuals, for perform-
ance of duty unless by consent of the governor. They shall be invested
with the authority belonging to all peace officers, coextensive with the limits
of the State, and may be detailed by the governor to do service in any part
of the State, who shall at all times have power to assume command of the
whole or any part of the police force of any town or city, or of the
sheriffs, their deputies, constables, and marshals of cities or towns, command-
ing their assistance in executing criminal process, suppressing riots and pre-
serving the peace. The judge of each judicial district is required to suppress
lawlessness within the same, and may call upon the State police within his
district, and all sheriffs, deputies, marshals, etc., reporting to the governor
without delay all combinations for disturbance too strong for suppression by
the local civil authorities.
CHAP. 14. Judicial Districts.-Dividing the State into thirty-five judicial
districts, and attaching certain unorganized counties to several districts for
judicial purposes, as will be seen by reference to page
CHAP. 15. Public Printing.-Appropriating $25,000 to defray the contin.
gent and printing expenses of the Twelith Legislature.
CHAP. 16. Registrat"ion of Voters.-Enabling any citizen with the necessary
constitutional qualifications to register and vote, by appearing before the
proper registration officer during the days of registration, and making oath
that he is a citizen, or that he has declared his intention to become a citizen,
of the United States, has resided one year in the State of Texas, and sixty
days in the county wherein he offers to register; that he was a resident of the
State at the time of the adoption of the constitution, is twenty-one years old,
and not otherwise disqualified from registering or voting by any constitu-
tional provision; when it shall be the duty of the registering officer to regis-
ter such qualified elector, and furnish him a certificate of such oath or regis-
tration. Registration under the late provisional government by the military
commander is declared valid and-such certificates deemed legal, subject to
the revision of the boards of appeal, who shall have power to strike off the
names of parties fraudulently registered; but no name shall be stricken off
if the party is entitled to registration under the constitution of the State. A
registrar for each organized county in the State shall be appointed by the
governor for two years, unless sooner removed; also a board of appeals and
revision, consisting of three persons, who shall also be judges of elections,
and take the oath of office prescribed in the constitution. Governor shall
appoint registrars at least sixty daysprior to any general election, and boards
of appeal in sufficient time to enable them to enter on their duties; and the
registrars shall begin registration three weeks prior to the day of election,
and continue in session ten consecutive days, (Sundays excepted,) sitting at
least eight hours per day, and giving ten days' notice of the time and places
of sessioii of said-offieers by publication in some newspaper and by handbills.
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The Texas Almanac for 1871, and Emigrant's Guide to Texas., book, 1871~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123776/m1/50/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.