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856 HISTORY OF TEXAS.
practitioners of medicine in this State, and to punish persons for malpractice,
but no preference shall ever be given by law to any schools of medicine.
SEC.
32. The Legislature may provide by law for the establishment of a
Board of Health and Vital Statistics, under such rules and regulations as it
may deem proper.
SEc. 33. The accounting officers of this State shall neither draw nor pay
a warrant upoi the treasury in favor of any person for salary or compensation
as agent, officer, or appointee, who holds at the same time any other
office or position of honor, trust, or profit under this State or the United
States, except as prescribed in this Constitution.
SEC. 34. The Legislature shall pass laws authorizing the Governor to lease
or sell to the government of the United States a sufficient quantity of the
public domain of the State, necessary for the erection of forts, barracks,
arsenals, and military stations, or camps, and for other needful military
purposes; and the action of the Governor therein shall be subject to the
approval of the Legislature.
SEC. 35. The Legislature shall, at its first session, pass laws to protect
laborers on public buildings, streets, roads, railroads, canals, and other
similar public works, against the failure of contractors and sub-contractors
to pay their current wages when due, and to make the corporation, company,
or individual for whose benefit the work is done, responsible for their
ultimate payment.
SEC. 36. The Legislature shall, at its first session, provide for the payment,
or funding, as they may deem best, of the amounts found to be justly due
to the teachers in the public schools, by the State, for service rendered prior
to the first day of July, 1873, and for the payment by the school districts in
the State of amiounts justly due teachers of public schools by such district
to January, 1876.
SEC. 37. Mechanics, artisans, and material men, of every class, shall have
a lien upon the buildings anld articles made or repaired by them, for the
value of their labor done thereon, or material furnished therefor; and the
Legislature shall provide by law for the speedy and efficient enforcement of
said liens.
SEC. 38. The Legislature may, at such time as the public interest may
require, provide for the office of Commissioner of Insurance, Statistics, and
History, whose term of office, duties, and salary shall be prescribed by law.
SEC. 39. The Legislature may, from time to time, make appropriations
for preserving atnd perpetuating memorials of the history of Texas, by
means of monuments, statues, paintings, and documents of historical value.
SEC. 40. No person shall hold or exercise, at the same time, more than
one civil office of emolument, except that of Justice of the Peace, County
Commissioner, Notary Public, and Postmaster, unless otherwise specially
provided herein.
SW. 1. Any person who shall, directly or indirectly, offer, give, or
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Illustrated history of Texas, organized into ten sections: [1] General Description of the Country, [2] Texas Under Spanish Domination, 1695--1820, [3] Colonization Under Mexican Domination, 1820--1834, [4] The Revolution, [5] The Republic, From 1837 to 1846, [6] Texas as a State, from 1847 to 1878, [7] Indians, [8] Biographies, [9] History -- Counties, and [10] Miscellaneous Items.
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/856/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .