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HOW TO FIND A HOME IN WESTERN TEXAS. 137
Sec. 44. All usury laws are abolished in this State, and the Legislature is
forbidden from making laws limiting the parties to contracts in the amount of
interest they may agree upon for the loans of money or other property; pro-
vided, this section is not intended to change the provisions of law, fixing rate
of interest in contracts where the rate of interest is not specified.
Sec. 45. All the qualified voters of each county shall also be qualified
jurors of such county.
Sec. 46. It shall lbe the duty of the Legislature, after the adoption of this
Constitution, to levy a special road tax upon the taxable property of all per-
sons in this State, and appropriate the same to the building .bridges and the
improvement of public roads in the different counties of the State, under such
rules and regulations as the Legislature shall provide; and no law shall be
passed requiring the personal services of any portion of the people on pub!ic
roads.
Sec. 47. Mechanics and artisans of every class shall have a lien upon the
articles manufactured or repaired by them, for the value of their labor done
thereon, or materials furnished therefor; and the Legislature shall provide
by law for the speedy and efficient enforcement of said liens.
Sec. 48. The Legislature may prohibit the sale of all intoxicating or
spirituous liquors in the immediate vicinity of any college or seminary of
learning; provided, said college or seminary be located other than at a county
seat or at the State capital.
Sec. 49. The Legislature shall give effect to the foregoing general pro-
visions, and all other provisions of this Constitution which require legislative
action, according to their spirit and intent, by appropriate acts, bills or joint
resolutions.
Sec. 50. The Legislature, whenever two-thirds of each house shall deem
it necessary, may propose amendments to this Constitution, which proposed
amendments shall be duly published in the public prints of this State, at least
three months before the next general election of representatives, for the con-
sideration of the people; and it shall be the duty of the several returning
officers, at the next general election which shall be thus holden, to open a poll
for, and make a return to the Secretary of State of, the names of all those
voting for representatives, who have voted on such proposed amendments,
and if thereupon it shall appear that a majority of those voting upon the
proposed amendments, have voted in favor of such proposed amendments,
and two-thirds of each house of the next Legislature shall, after such election,
ratify the same amendments by yeas and nays, they shall be valid to all in-
tents and purposes as parts of this Constitution; provided, that the said pro-
posed amendments shall, at each of the said sessions, have been read on
three several days in each house.
HOW TO FIND A ROME IN WESTERN TEXAS.
[The following article is republished by request from a former issue of this
work.]
A man who proposes to settle in Texas ought, in the first place, to decide
distinctly what sort of business or occupation he intends to pursue, and with
his purpose definitely before him, let him, in seeking a home, confine his
search for a suitable location to the section of the country in which that pur-
pose has most prospect of success.
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