| 01/10/1883 |
18th R.S. |
Relating to Greer County and reasons it belongs in Texas, question of the controversy between Texas and the United States upon the construction of the treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 and boundary line, including maps
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 01/10/1883 |
18th R.S. |
Outgoing message
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 05/05/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Message upon adjournment, returning grateful acknowledgments to the 17th Legislature
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 05/05/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Returning a list of bills passed and approved during the present session up to the present time, May 5, 1882; stating the congressional apportionment bill will be allowed to become law without Governor's approval
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 05/05/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Returning a list of bills passed and approved during the present session up to this date, May 5, 1882, at 10:45 o'clock a.m.
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 05/05/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, communication of the Hon. W.C. Walsh, in relation to sale of public free school lands and University lands
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 05/02/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, refunding of occupation taxes to persons who have paid them as dealers in liquor, wine and beer in counties that may adopt local option during the time for which said tax may have been paid
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 05/02/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, memorial of the Veteran Board, who have been patriotically serving the State, as they did in 1835 and 1836, without any provision for their compensation under the law of 1881
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/29/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, purchase of portraits of the Presidents and Governors of Texas from Mr. Huddle, the young Texas artist; and passage of a law fixing the time for holding the general election for State, district, and county officers different from that of the election of Representatives in Congress and of electors for President
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/28/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, appropriation for support of summer normal institutes for training of teachers in Texas
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/27/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, memorial of citizens of Plano, Collin county, after destructive fire on August 27, 1881, roster of names and respective losses, certified list of taxes assessed
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/27/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, memorial of "The Colored Men's Convention," lately held at Waco (Prairie View Normal School, county convicts, racial discrimination by railroads)
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/25/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, report of State Fish Commissioner R.R. Robertson, calling particular attention to salary, recommending appropriation to widow of previous Fish Commissioner J.H. Dinkins and to salary for the year ending February 28, 1883; report and supplemental report of Fish Commissioner of Texas, survey of carp by county
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/25/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Renewing recommendation of a pension for Texas veterans
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/19/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Relating to earlier message of April 15, 1882, granting of pensions to veterans, calling attention to section 52 of article 3 of the Constitution of 1876, and withdrawing said recommendation
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/19/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, memorial of Messrs. Cunningham & Ellis, the lessees of the penitentiary, relating to expiration of existing lease of State penitentiary at Huntsville, and requesting appropriation for buildings, materials, tools, and machinery needed in the penitentiary
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/17/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, communication of Commissioner of Insurance, Statistics, and History A.W. Spaight, recommending purchase of fire extinguishers for the Land Office, Cmoproller's and Treasurer's offices, Appellate Court rooms and Law Library, Governor's Mansion, and other executive offices and the halls of the Legislature
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/15/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, any and everything that may be deemed proper to be done for Texas veterans, widows of Texas veterans, survivors of the Dawson massacre and their widows, those who have formerly received pensions and their widows, and crippled Confederate soldiers; memorial of Texas veterans of the late Republic of Texas
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/15/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, attachment of the unorganized county of Crockett to some organized county for judicial purposes, and authorizing district judges to appoint a time and place of holding district court in any of the counties . . .
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/12/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting report of the expenditure of appropriations for the new capitol building, which amounts to be refunded to the State by the capitol contractor; statements of amounts drawn against $10,000 appropriated for building new capitol, 1881-1882
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/11/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, recommendation of State Treasurer F.R. Lubbock on State bonds that have not been disposed of, and authorizing burning of a large amount of bonds for International Railroad Company kept in the Executive office
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/11/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, propositions to sell certain houses for use of the State as halls and offices, and propositions to refit the old capitol in a plain style for use of the State; attached propositions of the Brueggerhoff House, to repair old capitol, S.M. Swenson, and the Raymond House
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/11/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, recommendation of Board on Statistics on appropriation for statistical information and statistical clerks
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/07/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 17th Legislature, 1st Called Session, recommendation of board on location and survey of unorganized county school lands
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/06/1882 |
17th 1st C.S. |
Discussing topics of special session: State Capitol fire on November 9, 1881, Lunatic Asylum, penitentiaries, the University of Texas, permanent and available funds, Prairie View Agricultural College, public lands, railroad regulation, tax reduction, redemption of lands sold for taxes, boundary line between Texas and the U.S., deficiency appropriations, explanation, local and special subjects
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/01/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Message upon adjournment, tendering grateful obligations for respect shown during the present session
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/01/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting acts approved and resolutions; captions of bills passed by the 17th Legislature
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/31/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Referring the issue of the Senate substitute for Nos. 30 and 70, relating to the 12th, 17th, 20th, and 33rd Judicial Districts, has not passed by a two-thirds vote, and which is producing great confusion in the courts in said districts
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/22/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Relating to university lands, adversely claimed under an old Mexican grant, in McLennan and Hill counties, transmitting request of Attorney General of the contract and letter on the subject, and requesting appropriation for future prosecution of the suit
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/19/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting communication from the Honorable W.M. Brown, Comptroller, in regard to the probable omission, relating to medicated bitters, in the act of this session, providing for a tax upon spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, approved March 11, 1881
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/17/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting communication of the Hon. E.M. Pease, ex-Governor of the State, in regard to the portraits of William H. Wharton and John A. Wharton, distinguished men of the Texas Revolution, together with biographies of them
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/15/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Transmitting captions of bills passed at the present session, which have been approved up to this date and filed in the office of the Secretary of State; captions of bills passed by the 17th Legislature
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/11/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Suggestion legislation for consideration on apportionment of congressional districts and apportionment of districts for Senators and Representatives, noting necessity for special session some time in the first half of next year, urging repeal of resolution to adjourn on March 15
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/10/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Recommending joint resolution for amendment to the Constitution relating to terms of Representatives, Senators, Governor, and Lieutenant Governor, and mileage and per diem, and recommending legislation on repair or improvements to public property, compensation of officers appointed as extradition agents at the Rio Grande border, appropriations for Capitol architect
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/07/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting memorial of the officers of the leading railroad companies in Texas, relating to legislation proposed for the management of the railroads in the State
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/20/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Communication from the Governor, invitation from International and Great Northern Railroad for members of the Legislature to visit San Antonio on excursion train
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/19/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting conclusions of Attorney General J.H. McLeary and Judge George Clark, the attorneys employed in prosecution of suits in regard to university lands in McLennan and Hill counties, and asking for favorable consideration and action by the Legislature
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/17/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting memorial of the citizens of Shackelford County, asking that some provision may be made for the small remnant of the band of friendly Tonkawa Indians recommending a reservation be made in the public lands of the State
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/14/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting communication of Attorney General J.H. McLeary, in regard to amendments of the statutes relating to his department, and to the better execution of the laws
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/05/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting memorial of the stockraisers of the northern and northwestern portion of Texas, and the Secretary of the Panhandle Stock Association, correspondence (cattle losses, cattle fever)
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/02/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Relating to board for erection of a new Capitol's bid for 50,000 acres of land, asking the Legislature to allow them to expend said balance to employ a first-class architect and examine plans and specifications that have been submitted
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/01/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Relating to World's Fair exhibition at New York in 1883, authority in Constitution for making appropriations, marble block to send to Washington and Washington Monument to commemorate the history of Texas (statues), incorporation of Texas Monumental Association to raise capital, exhibit of portraits of the presidents and governors of Texas in the Executive Office
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/31/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Relating to the offices of public weigher (cotton) and cattle and hide inspector
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/31/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting draft of bill representing views of the Texas State Medical Association from physicians initiating this movement; an Act to create a Board of Health of the State of Texas, to define the powers and duties thereof, and to make the Secretary thereof ex officio State Health and Quarantine officer
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/28/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting memorial of the heirs of Thomas Toby, "friend and agent of Texas in her struggle for independence," accompanied by the statement of Messrs. John M. Swisher and James B. Shaw, who composed the auditorial board; petition of the heirs of Thomas Toby, deceased; synopsis of the action of the government of Texas on the claim of Thomas Toby; exhibits
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/28/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting annexed memorial of the County Commissioner's Court of Wheeler County, in regard to a new judicial district, and to the imperfection of surveys of land, which they desire to have remedied, endorsed by the Hon. C.C. Potter, Judge of the Tenth Judicial District, including the county of Wheeler
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 01/28/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting annexed memorial of the committee appointed by the Teachers' Association of Texas, on the subject of the State University of Texas (increasing demand for higher education, 13-point plan for organization of State University)
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/27/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Transmitting report of the Board of Education, published in the Journal of Education
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/27/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting memorial relating to estrays, requesting amendment of law when animal has been taken up and estrayed, for the description and brands and marks to be sent to the Capital
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/27/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Submitting annexed memorial of the citizens of Harrison County, requesting a change in the time of holding the State elections, pending federal lawsuit instituting a contest for the office of district judge of the Fifth Judicial District
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/26/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Relating to questions sent out last December to county judges, digest of answers to interrogatories propounded to county judges, survey questions (number of days district court in session, expenses of prisoners and juries, salaries of county judges, district court and county clerks and sheriffs)
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/26/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Relating to organization of the judicial department, Supreme Court, district courts, execution of the criminal laws, packing juries, educational interests, institution of a university, academies, Agricultural and Mechanical College, normal schools, public free schools, Department of Insurance, Statistics, and History, and railroads, suggesting legislation for consideration
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/20/1881 |
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Returning SB 9 to the Senate, in compliance with joint resolution
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/20/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Relating to disposition of business in the Commission of Appeals, now in session at Galveston, requesting legislation authorizing Supreme Court and Court of Appeals to submit cases for their examination and report of their opinion thereon
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/20/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Relating to removal/retirement of Gen. Henry E. McCulloch as Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, correspondence with McCulloch
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/13/1881 |
17th R.S. |
State of the State
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/11/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Relating to indebtedness from certain railroad companies to the public free school fund, correspondence from Comptroller and Attorney General (Washington County Railroad Company, consolidated with Houston and Central Texas Railroad Company)
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/11/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Message in regard to the sale and exchange of bonds, exhibit
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/11/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Message on appropriations and expenditures under control of the Governor (land forgeries, bell punch law, alleged illegal surveys in the Capitol reservation, Mercer Colony claim, university lands, murder cases, penitentiary suit, rewards for arrest of criminals, improvements aon and furnishing of the Governor's Mansion), exhibits
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 01/11/1881 |
17th R.S. |
Message of the Governor on quarantine (quarantine proclamation, organization and expense of quarantine, the quarantine houses, shipping beef cattle to Havana, National Board of Health, recommendations relating to quarantine including appropriation for deficiencies in quarantine expenses, amendment of laws, and amendment in regard to quarantine stations)
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 07/09/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Transmitting list of captions of all bills passed by the present session of the 16th Legislature, and signed by the Governor up to this time
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 07/09/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Message upon adjournment, summarizing regular and special session topics: Revised Codes of statutory laws, relief of supreme and appellate courts, improvement of the judiciary and execution of laws, surveying and selling land to build a new capitol, quarantine laws . . .
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 07/05/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session, purchase of land adjoining the East Texas Penitentiary
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 07/04/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting the itemized account for the improvement of the Governor's mansion and grounds; submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session, appointment of a committee of each House to examine said accounts with the vouchers, and also to inspect work done in and upon the mansion and grounds
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 07/02/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session, boundaries of counties, especially the disputed boundary between Montague and Wise counties, and arrest of criminals within the state by the frontier and police of the state
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 06/30/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session, penitentiaries and additional assistant superintendents of the penitentiary, proceeding of quo warranto, collection of rents from school lands or public lands of any sort under the control of the state, and Agricultural and Mechanical College use of specimens in the geological collection now in the state library; resolution adopted by board of Agricultural and Mechanical College
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 06/26/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session, security of funds in the land office, contract for printing of the Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, and Revised Civil Statutes and small additional appropriation for the codifier of the Code of Revised Statutes, and the protection and benefit of settlers upon lands that may be escheated to the state
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 06/25/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session, occupation tax upon merchants, practice of medicine, land frauds, and killing of convicts at camps in Wood County (House Journal date 6/25/1879, Senate Journal date 6/28/1879)
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 06/25/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an additional subject for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session, a law requiring druggists and dispensers of medicine to be licensed by a board of medical examiners
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 06/25/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session, collection of taxes in towns and cities, relief of certain citizens of Harris County from taxes this year because of a storm destroying their property, and delinquent and insolvent lists of taxpayers to be sworn to by tax collectors
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 06/24/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session, insurance laws (with letter from commissioner of insurance), punishment twice for offenses under the penal laws, fees or compensation of county judges in criminal cases, and internal improvement (with memorial of citizens of Brazoria County)
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 06/23/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Calling attention to the subject of quarantine, and adoption of measures to exclude from our borders the yellow fever and other infectious diseases; includes powers of officers and boards under the law, expenses of quarantine and how paid
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 06/21/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session, amendment of Penal Code article 690 relating to sheep as well as other stock, and extending time for completion of number of miles by railroad companies
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 06/20/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session (numbers 47-65)
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 06/16/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting additional subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session (numbers 40-46) and additional appropriations; Comptroller's estimates of cash on hand, receipts and disbursements from June 6, 1879, to August 31, 1880; letters of Hon. W.C. Walsh, County Attorney of Wheeler County, citizens of Smith County, General Manager of Texas Land Company, L. & G.N.R.R., committee of citizens of Huntsville, Dr. T.J. Heard
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 06/10/1879 |
16th 1st C.S. |
Submitting subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature, Extra Session (numbers 1-39) and additional appropriations; State Finances (reports and correspondence with Comptroller Stephen H. Darden, Governor Richard Coke's review of state finances in 1876), reports of Land Office, Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Education, Blind Asylum , Agricultural College, Lunatic Asylum, Printing Board, Adjutant General, Prairie View School
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/24/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Submitting captions of bills passed at the present session
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/24/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Message upon eve of adjournment
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/23/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Submitting captions of bills passed at the present session and approved by the Governor
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 04/21/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Transmitting communication of the commissioner of the general land office and writ of injunction restraining him from issuing land patents in a large tract of Mercer's colony; recommending passage of a law prohibiting any court from issuing or enforcing any such writ
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 04/15/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Relating to pending suits on the Mercer Colony contract, large amounts of land in the southwestern part of the state under claims of title from the State of Tamaulipas, tax collectors' bonds, and land fraud; requesting general fiscal agent and attorney for the state (Attorney General's staffing needs)
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/26/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Calling attention to article 3956 of the Civil Code, providing that "no patent shall be issued upon any claim unless a map of the county in which the same is situated shall have been returned to the general land office by the county surveyor of the county," and recommending its immediate repeal
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/25/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Submitting a list of the acts and joint resolutions of the present Legislature, passed up to the present time, that have become laws; captions of bills passed by the 16th Legislature
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/21/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Calling attention to communication of the commissioner of the general land office, and recommending repeal of Civil Code provision requiring the school lands to be divided by surveys
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/11/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Submitting memorial of the principal railroad companies of the State of Texas, in relation to regulation of freights in article 4257 in the Civil Code
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 03/03/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Recommending subjects for consideration by the 16th Legislature
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/24/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Supplemental message to the February 21 message relating to estimated deficiencies in the current revenue
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/21/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Authorizing the Legislature to levy taxes for the support of public schools
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/18/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Regarding the election of county officers in Harrison and Smith counties
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/10/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Relating to frontier defense, recommending laws relating to the Indians
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/10/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Regarding foundation of free common schools in the constitution of the State and the Permanent School Fund; transmitting letters from Dr. B. Sears, general agent of the Peabody educational fund on a "first-class normal school" and the Committee State Teachers' Convention on improvements to education system
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Oran M. Roberts |
Legislative message
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| 02/07/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Regarding report from the different heads of departments of the executive branch on improvements in efficiency and reduction of expenses
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 02/06/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Regarding the charitable institutions located at the capital
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 02/05/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Regarding the schools of different grades in Texas, the University of Texas and land donated for a state university, and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas; transmitting reports of the outgoing directors at the January session of the board, 1879 (Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas) and the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Colored Youths at Alta Vista
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 01/29/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Transmitting communication from the commissioner of insurance, statistics and history in regard to the room containing the state library
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 01/29/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Regarding the financial condition of the state
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Oran M. Roberts |
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| 01/27/1879 |
16th R.S. |
Relating to recommendations to increase the force and efficiency of the judiciary
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Oran M. Roberts |
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