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GENERAL LAWS. 455
Whereas, the topographic and hydrographic surveys are now greatly
needed within our State for the purpose of assisting our people and out
State Levee and Drainage Department in the reclamation of our swamp
and overflowed lands, and the irrigation of our arid lands; and
Whereas, the usual appropriation for these topographic and hydrographic
surveys for the present season did fail with the Federal Sundry
Civil Appropriation Bill and consequently this item must again be taken
up for consideration during the coming extra session of Congress, therefore
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring,
First, that our Senators and. Representatives in Congress be, and they
are hereby, urged to use their most diligent efforts during the extra session
of Congress, and hereafter when these appropriations are being considered,
to secure a more equitable division of the survey work among
all of the States, and therefore to secure a more reasonable allotment
of the money for the work for Texas; and,
Second, that the attention of President Woodrow Wilson be respect*fully
directed not only to the said Geological Survey but to the similar
federal survey bureaus, in the hope that such extensions or modifications
may be made therein to the end that the operations of these bureaus may
become of even greater practical value in the reclamation of the swamp;
overflowed and arid lands of our various States; and,
Resolved, further, that copies of this Joint Resolution be forwarded by
the Chief Clerk of this House, to the President and to each member of
our delegation in Congress.
[NOTE.-H. C. R. No. 23 was adopted by the House of Representatives
March 20, 1913, but no vote given; and was adopted by the Senate April
1, 1913, by the following vote: yeas 27, nays 0.]
Approved April 3, 1913.
ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS-RATIFYING
THE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES, RELATING THERETO.
H. J. R. No. 5.] HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION.
Ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
proposed by the Sixty-second Congress of the United States of America.
Whereas, both houses of the Sixty-second Congress of the United
States of America, at its second session, by a constitutional majority of
two-thirds thereof, made the following proposition to amend the Constitution
of the United States of America in the following words, to-wit:
Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution providing
that Senators shall be elected by the people of the several States.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress Assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring
therein).
That in lieu of the first paragraph of Section 3, Article 1 of the Constitution
of the United States, and in lieu of so much of paragraph 2 of
the same Section as relates to the filling of vacancies, the following be
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16], book, 1914; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10838/m1/465/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .