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2 AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION OF TEXAS.
ARTICLE VII
Section 8. The Legislature shall provide by law for a State
Board of Education, whose members shall be appointed or elected
in such manner and by such authority and shall serve for such
terms as the Legislature shall prescribe not to exceed six years.
The said board shall perform such duties as may be prescribed
by law. (Voted on by electors Nov. 6, 1928. Canvassing Board
canvassed the returns Dec. 19, 1928, and declared said amendment
adopted. Governor's proclamation issued Feb. 6, 1929,
declaring said amendment adopted.)
Section 16. The Legislature shall fix by law the terms of
all offices of the public school system and of the State institutions
of higher education, inclusive, and the terms of members
of the respective boards, not to exceed six years. (Voted on by
electors Nov. 6, 1928. Canvassing Board canvassed the returns
Dec. 19, 1928, and declared said amendment adopted.
Governor's proclamation issued Feb. 6, 1929, declaring said
amendment adopted.)
ARTICLE VIII
Section 2. All occupation taxes shall be eaual and uniform
upon the same class of subjects within the limits of the authority
levying the tax; but the legislature may, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes;
actual places or religious worship, also any property
owned by a church or by a strictly religious society for the exclusive
use as a dwelling place for the ministry of such church
or religious society, and which yields no revenue whatever to
such church or religious society; provided that such exemption
shall not extend to more property than is reasonably necessary
for a dwelling place and in no event more than one acre of land;
places of burial not held for private or corporate profit; all
buildings used exclusively and owned by persons or associations
of persons for school purposes and the necessary furniture of all
schools and property used exclusively and reasonably necessary
in conducting any association engaged in promoting the
religious, educational and physical development of boys, girls,
young men or young women operating under a State or National
organizatioin of like character; also the endowment funds of such
institutions of learning and religion not used with a view to
profit; and when the same are invested in bonds or mortgages,
or in land or other property which has been and shall hereafter
,be bought in by such institutions under foreclosure sales made
to satisfy or protect such bonds or mortgages, that such exemption
of such land and property shall continue only for two years
;after the purchase of the same at such sale by such institutions
.and no longer, and institutions of purely public charity; and all
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1929 [Volume 26], book, 1929; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16364/m1/18/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .