A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879. Page: 849 of 859
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CONSTITUTION. 849
to the State, and if such alienation be judicially ascertained to be fraudulent
and colorable as aforesaid, such lands shall be forfeited to the State aind become
a part of the vacant public domain, liable to pre-emption, location, and
survey.
SEc. 6. To every head of a family without a homestead there shall be donated
one hundred and sixty acres of public land, upon condition that he
will select and locate said land, and occupy the same three years, and pay
the office fees due thereon. To all single men of eighteen years of age and
upwards shall be donated eighty acres of public land, upon the terms and
conditions prescribed for heads of families.
SEc. 7. The State of Texas hereby releases to the owner or owners of the
soil all mines and minerals that may be on the same, subject to taxation as
other property.
SEC. 8. Persoiis residing between the Nueces river and the Rio Grande,
and owning grants for lands which emanated from the government of Spain,
or that of Mexico, which grants have been recognized and validated by the
State, by acts of the Legislature, approved February 10, 1852, August 15,
1870, and other acts, and who have been prevented from cormplying with
the requirements of said acts by the unsettled condition of the country,
shall be allowed until the first day of January, 1880, to complete their surveys,
and the plats thereof, and to return their field-notes to the General
Land Office; and all claimants failing to do so shall be forever barred: provided,
nothing in this section shall be so construed as to validate any titles
not already valid, or to interfere with the rights of third persons.
ARTICLE XV.
IMPEACHMIENT.
SECTION 1. The power of impeachment shall be vested in the House of
Representatives.
SEc. 2. Impeachment of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, AttorneyGeneral,
Treasurer, Commissioner of the General Land Office, Comptroller,
and the Judges of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and District Court
shall be tried by the Senate.
SEC. 3. When the Senate is sitting as a Court of Impeachment, the Senators
shall be on oath, or affirmation, impartially to try the party impeached,
and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of
the Senators present.
SEC. 4. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall extend only to removal
from office, and disqualification from holding any office of honor, trust, or
profit, under this State. A party convicted on impeachment shall also be
subject to indictment, trial, and punishment, according to law.
SEC. 5. All officers against whom articles of impeachment may be preferred
shall be suspended from the exercise of the duties of their office,
during the pendency of such impeachment. The Governor may make a
provisional appointment to fill the vacancy occasioned by the suspension of
an officer, until the decision on the impeachment.
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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/m1/849/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .