SJR 4, 44th R.S.
Proposing an amendment to Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas by adopting a new section to be known as Section 51-b, which shall provide that the Legislature shall have the power to cooperate with the United States of America in providing for an paying an old age pension to actual bona fide citizens of Texas over the age of sixty-five years who have not been convicted of a felony within ten years next prior to the granting of such pension and who have never been convicted of being an habitual criminal, and providing that an habitual drunkard shall not be eligible for such pension, and that the State of texas shall never pay more than Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per month on any such pension, and shall never issue bonds to provide funds for the payment of such pension and shall never increase the maximum ad valorem tax rate as fixed by other provisions of the Constitution.
Author: Benjamin Grady "Ben" Oneal
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