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i hundred and forty-seven for the estabIish- ment of certificates for headrights not recom- meuded by the Commissioners appointed un- der the act 10 detect fraudulent land certf- cates, and to provide for issuing patents to legal claimants, and the parties suing shall produce the like proof and be subjected to the acquisitions which were necessary and were prescribed by law, to sustain the origi- nal application for the said certificates and all certificates apove referred to not establisl- ed or sued upon before the period limited, shall be barred and the said certificates and all locations and surveys thereon shall be forever null and void and all re-locations made on such surveys, shall not be disturbed untll the certificates are established as above directed.
 Article l2th establishes Land Office at the Seat of Government for the registry of all titles emanating from the Government. The Schedule consists of thirteen sections, and IS intended to guard against any incon- veniences growing out of change of gov- ernment. All laws in force, not repugnant to the Constitution of the U. S., the annexa- ton resolutions or the new Texas Constitli- ton, shall continue 90 until they expire by their own limitatatioa or by action of the
  2d Monday of October, 10 take the sense of the people on the new Constitution All voters under the existing laws may vote at this election. lladopted, the President shall on or before the 2d Monday Of November, proclaim the fact and transmit authenticated copies 10 the President of the United States. And on the 3d Monday of December, the first State election shall take place. At an early day, after receiving official notice of the acceptance of the new Constitution by the U. $. Congress the Legislature of Texas shall ! be convened to canvass the election returns for State officers, 10 elect U. 5. Senators, and 10 adopt measures for cetIing to the U $. all public edifices Notifications, custom houses, etc.
 After the inauguration of the new Cover nor, the President of Texas shall surrender into his hands the public records Sc. Up on the organization of the new Slate Gov ernment, the officers of President, etc, shall be superseded The first general election after the new organization shall take place on the first Monday of November, 1917, and every two years thereafter. The ordinance oi the 4lh July, assentlng to the oveftHres for annexation from the U. s. shall form q part of the Constitution.
 We give the subjoined Ordinance at length as an important document.
 Whereas, various contracts have been en-
 tered into by tlle President of the Repub-
 he Of Texas with divers individuals; with
 the expressed intention of eolonizing an
 enormous amount of the public domain of
 Texas, and Whereas, il is believed that
 said contracts are unconstitutional, and,
 t1, Ior
 carried out, would operate as monopoly
 of upwards of seven million of acres of the
 public domain of Texas, in the hands ofa
 few ndvduas-when, in truth, the citi-
 zen-soldiers and creditors of the Republic
 of Texas had, by the Laws and Constitu-
 ton ol sad ha4a-e, eieai 8Ht HfaisRGv
 table, previousY sabssaag right, io locate
 upon public domaiH lans attempted to be
 signed to said ,7atgaftsa
 Sgc l Iberef asf tl 5sH 58, ord lga and dcclawd, Tn I shall be t.4e duty ot the Attorney Ge og t6e State, or the District Auorney o. tis D.a...s. la wblch any portion of the colonies may be situate, as soon as the organization of the State shall be completed, to institute legal proceedings against all colony contractors who have en- tered into contracts with the President of Texas {, and if, upon such investigation, it shall be found that any such contract was unconstitutional, illegal or fraudulent, or that the conditions of the same have not been complied with according 10 it's terms, such contract shall be adjudged and decrced null , and void provided, however, that actual set tiers under such contract, shall be entitled to a their quantity of land as eolohsts--not to exceed Gi0 acres to the head of a family, and three hundred and twenty acres to single man. And in all suits brought by, or against any contractors, or any person claiming uli- der, by or through them, either of them, il shall be lawful for the adverse claimant to set forth any plea that il would have been competent for the State to plead and the par ty may introduce testimony to prove the claim or title to have been forfeited, as we'll as for frauds, or llegalty, or unconstitutlon- ality, as on account Of d failure to comply with the conditions ofthc original grant or contract and any such pleas shall be deem- ed good and valid in law, in all such suit or suits Ill this State.
 SEC. 3 Be Il further ordained, That the Legislature is hereby restrained from exten- ding any contract for settling colony and from relieving a contractor fromthe failure of the conditions, or the forfeiture accrung from Noncompliance with the contract,
 SEC. 3. find De a frther ordained, That this ordinance shall be presented to the peo- pie for their adoption orrejection, at the same f time that this constitution shall be presented to them, and the returns of the votes taken on this Ordinance, shall be made to the of flee of secretary of State of the Republic of Texas, at the same time the vote for the Constitution may be returned.
 Adopted in Conventions, this twenty-sev- enth day of August, one thousand eight
 hundred and lorty-fye.
 Il TIIOS. J. RUSK, Pres't. Il Attest:
 JAs. H. RAYMOND, sec'ry. of Convention. Members of he Teran Conremton.- Galveston News gives the birthplace oi the members of the Convention now sitting at Austin. sixty-one in all. From this 1t would , seem that eighteen are natives of Tennessee, eight of Virginia, seven ot Georgia, six of st .scN l., f